Tag: Posthuman

Free Download Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, "Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0838757154, 1611483107 | PDF | pages: 224 | 1.5 mb
Cy-Borges-this compound word seems almost destined. It allows the associations of cyber-and cyborg to converge around the name of Jorge Luis Borges, many of whose writings are strangely prescient thought-experiments in the impossible and the unconfigurable. For though Borges speaks scantily of technology and hardly at all of the cyber-cultural futures that make it possible, his speculative fictions and other prose writings contrive glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more typically associated with writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick or films like Blade Runner and The Matrix. Yet the posthuman, as that which reconfigures the actual and the possible once technology re-engineers human potential and institutes a new physics, is everywhere in Borges. As this collection shows through a series of close readings of his work, Borges is therefore the precursor whom posthumanism would have had to invent had he not existed.

Free Download Visceral Prostheses : Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment
by Margrit Shildrick
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350176494 | 273 Pages | True ePUB/PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Screening the Posthuman by Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry
English | June 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0197538568, 0197538576 | True EPUB | 316 pages | 8.8 MB
From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development.

Free Download Matilda Arvidsson, "International Law and Posthuman Theory"
English | ISBN: 1032044047 | 2024 | 334 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Zhang Na, "Posthuman Becoming Narratives in Contemporary Anglophone Science Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1527588505 | 2022 | 365 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Michael Richards, "Posthuman Community Psychology"
English | ISBN: 0367523884 | 2023 | 148 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Posthuman Community Psychology is an exploration of mainstream psychology through a critical posthumanity perspective, examining psychology’s place in the world and its relationship with marginalised people, with a focus on people with disabilities.

Free Download Tanmoy Kundu Saikat Sarkar, "The Posthuman Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1527564045 | 2021 | 205 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume, including an extended interview with noted philosopher of posthumanism Francesca Ferrando, explores the contemporary philosophical, literary and cultural landscapes that have emerged as a response to the unavoidable crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene era. The essays gathered here map posthumanism both as theoretical posthumanism, which primarily seeks to develop new knowledge, and as practical posthumanism, which emphasizes socio-political, economic, and technological changes. Posthumanism, which explores how one can address the question of what means to be human today, is a burgeoning area of interest among universities across the globe. Written in accessible, yet scholarly, language, this volume introduces posthumanism in its diverse ramifications and explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts in order to cater to the needs of researchers and students in the humanities.

Free Download Sensing Corporeally: Toward a Posthuman Understanding By Floyd Merrell
2003 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0802037046 | PDF | 20 MB
In Sensing Corporeally, Floyd Merrell argues that human sensation and cognition should be thought of in terms of continually changing signs that can be accounted for in terms of topological forms. Focusing on qualitative and analogical sensing, rather than quantitative and digital reasoning, Merrell begins by reflecting on the concept of consciousness as developed by neurologist Antonio Damasio, whose work in turn reflects Charles Peirce’s conception of the sign. By expanding Peirce’s notion of the sign in light of Damasio’s work, as well as that of Oliver Sacks and the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, Merrell demonstrates the importance of the relationship between cognition, consciousness, and fantasy. The philosophy of science espoused by Michael Polanyi, and the analytic and postanalytic philosophies of Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty are also explored in light of what they bring to Peircean concepts of vagueness and generality, inconsistency and incompleteness, and abduction, induction, and deduction. Merrell concludes by moving to the conceptual world of biologist Jakob von Uexk�ll and his Umwelttheory in order to complete his journey into the realm of ‘posthuman’ understanding, which is characterized by instinctive, tacit knowledge, continuity, and possibility. Merrell aims to overcome linear, mechanical thinking by underlining the role of the body and, in turn, the role of feeling and sensing, in the development of cognitive processes. Sensing Corporeally is thus a forceful and timely challenge to traditional models of human understanding.