Books
Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities
The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. These points of view convey the cultural, political, social, and historical implications that frame the space of Black embodiment, functioning as sites of potentiality and pointing toward the possibility of a transcendental Black subjectivity.
Philosophical Posthumanism
About Philosophical Posthumanism The notion of ‘the human’ is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term ‘posthuman’ provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes […]
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
About this book This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one hand, we find ourselves in a digital age in which human […]
The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti
The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities.
Jump to: Books Articles
Media
Jump to: Media Books
Articles
Information-Power: Teletechnology and the Ethics of Human–Animal Difference – Samrat Sengupta
on the spectrality of the televisual that corresponds to the spectrality of the world order after the end of history and end of ideology epoch. In in Banerji D., Paranjape M. (eds) Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Springer, New Delhi.
Autoimmunity and the Irony of Self-Definition: Translating the Economy of Terror – Samrat Sengupta
Article carried in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, Vol 1 No 1 (2014): Terror and the literary