Posthumanism

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0333765389 ISBN 13: 9780333765388

Casa editrice: Palgrave, 2000

What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This book offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions.

L'autore:

NEIL BADMINGTON is a Lecturer at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

Contenuti:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism; N. Badmington
The Great Family of Man; R. Barthes
The Instinct; R. Coward
The Wretched of the Earth (extract); F. Fanon
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (extract); M. Foucault
Marxism and Humanism (extract); L. Althusser
Prophylaxis and Virulence; J. Baudrillard
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?; P. Rabinowitz
Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs; J. Halberstam
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (extract); D. J. Haraway
Posthumanist (Com) Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass; N. Badmington
Postcards from the Posthumanist Solar System; S. Bukatman
Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital; B. Readings
Can Thought Go on Without a Body?; J. Lyotard
Summaries
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors