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[email protected] The Practice of Posthumanism: Five Paradigmatic Figures for Human Mutation Daniel Rourke Goldsmiths, University of London Submitted in fulfilment of a PhD in Art 2019 0 Declaration of Authorship I, Daniel Rourke, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. 14th January 2019 1 Acknowledgements With special thanks to Edgar Schmitz for being a great mentor and friend. Thanks also to Andrea Phillips, Yve Lomax, John Chilver, Kristen Kreider, and Michael Newman for their support and guidance, as well as Sarah Kember and John Russell for their thorough examination of the thesis in December 2017. Love to Holly Pester and my family for their unwavering generosity and understanding. This thesis would not have been possible without the minds of Holly Pester, Kyoung Kim, Zara Dinnen, Rob Gallagher, Morehshin Allahyari, Maria Fusco, Adrian Rifkin, Rosa Menkman, Nick Briz, Linda Stupart, Michael Connor and countless others who have enriched my intellectual and creative life over the past years.