Symposium June 2021

Especially from an Indian perspective, the central political conflict in the game is between the humanist idea of freedom and private property versus a posthuman notion of freedom as realized within a cyber collective.

Ray investigates what happens to the human uniqueness when the Other threatens to trespass the line between the human and the Other.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss selected aspects of Salman Rushdie’s depiction of human corporeality in his novel Midnight’s Children within the framework of new materialistic Posthumanism.

The ontology of singularity that we are interested in has more to deal with its immanence on socio-technological levels, calling forth a future wherein artificial intelligence systems surpass the levels of human intelligence and sense-making.