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The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television the Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television
The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television Edited by Michael Hauskeller University of Exeter, UK Thomas D. Philbeck World Economic Forum, Switzerland Curtis D. Carbonell Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, UAE Selection and editorial matter © Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell 2015 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-43031-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. -
Part Three Autoevolution and Posthumanism
Part Three Autoevolution and Posthumanism Pawe Majewski - 9783631710258 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/23/2021 08:08:01PM via free access Pawe Majewski - 9783631710258 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/23/2021 08:08:01PM via free access 17 Themes of Lampoon of Evolution In Part Three of this book I will discuss the last chapter of ST, and then some of the currents in contemporary philosophy and sociology, which in one way or another seem to be akin to Lem’s project of autoevolution. These are mostly convergences rather than any kind of genetic affinities, and will partly be constructed through my interpretations. The aim is to show that Lem’s work, especially ST, has great albeit so far unacknowledged significance for the con- temporary problems of our civilization. The last chapter of ST is titled “Lampoon of Evolution.” It includes a descrip- tion of the project of autoevolution of human species, the very description to which the rest of ST is but a set of introductory studies, as I have suggested ear- lier. The word “lampoon” ought to be taken with a grain of salt, just as other rhetorical devices Lem uses in the titles of his chapters and sections of ST. It is a testimony to Lem’s personal and internally diverse attitude to bioevolution. He both admires the phenomenon, which he often hypostatizes, and is critical and hostile to it. The admiration comes from the fact that bioevolution has pro- duced such amazing beings as a biological cell and rational humans.180 The crit- icism and hostility stem from the fact that for Lem the rationalist the process is unbearable in how blindly random it is. -
Egoism and the Post-Anarchic: Max Stirner's New Individualism
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS THESLS SIGNATURE PAGE Tl IESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF Tl IE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARTS IN LITERA TUR.E AND WRITING STUDIES THESIS TJTLE: Egoism and the Post-Anarchic: Max Stimer's New Individualism AUTHOR: Kristian Pr'Out DATE OF SUCCESSFUL DEFEN E: May 911' 2019 --- THE THESIS HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE THESIS COMMITTEE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN LITERATURE AND WRITING STUDIES. Oliver Berghof August 5, 2019 TIIESIS COMMITTEE CHAIR DATE Francesco Levato 8/5/19 TIIESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER DATE Heidi Breuer �-11 THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER DATE Pr’Out 1 Egoism and the Post-Anarchic: Max Stirner’s New Individualism Kristian Pr’Out Pr’Out 2 Table of Contents Preface 3 Chapter 1 Max Stirner: Biographers and Interpreters 13 Stirner and The Dialectic: A Genealogy of Liberalism 23 Fichte and the Unique One: Speaking the Intangible 32 Chapter 2 Stirner and the Case for Anarchism 39 Stirner’s Egoism Meets Classical Anarchism 48 Welsh’s Dialectical Egoism and Post-Anarchist Individualism 64 Chapter 3 May 1968 and Its Impact 67 Post-Anarchism: A Contemporary Theoretical Model 82 Narrative and the Critique of Modernity 89 ‘Ownness,’ Power, and The Material 92 Conclusion: A Revenant Returns 102 Bibliography 104 Pr’Out 3 Preface In the 19th century, the influence of Georg W. F. Hegel was widespread. His works influenced anarchists, communists, the moderately liberal, and the staunchly traditional. In Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1977), history operates in certain movements - namely, that of a world spirit that ushers in new and different epochs (6-7). -
Beyond Humanism: Reflections on Trans- and Posthumanism
A peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies ISSN 1541-0099 21(2) – October 2010 Beyond Humanism: Reflections on Trans- and Posthumanism Stefan Lorenz Sorgner Department of Philosophy University of Erfurt, Germany [email protected] Journal of Evolution and Technology - Vol. 21 Issue 2 – October 2010 - pgs 1-19 http://jetpress.org/sorgner.htm Abstract I am focusing here on the main counterarguments that were raised against a thesis I put forward in my article “Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism” (2009), namely that significant similarities can be found on a fundamental level between the concept of the posthuman, as put forward by some transhumanists, and Nietzsche’s concept of the overhuman. The articles with the counterarguments were published in the recent “Nietzsche and European Posthumanisms” issue of The Journal of Evolution and Technology (January-July 2010). As several commentators referred to identical issues, I decided that it would be appropriate not to respond to each of the articles individually, but to focus on the central arguments and to deal with the counterarguments mentioned in the various replies. I am concerned with each topic in a separate section. The sections are entitled as follows: 1. Technology and evolution; 2. Overcoming nihilism; 3. Politics and liberalism; 4. Utilitarianism or virtue ethics?; 5. The good Life; 6. Creativity and the will to power; 7. Immortality and longevity; 8. Logocentrism; 9. The Third Reich. When dealing with the various topics, I am not merely responding to counterarguments; I also raise questions concerning transhumanism and put forward my own views concerning some of the questions I am dealing with. -
Rereading Posthumanism in the War of the Worlds and Independence Day
eSharp Issue 12: Technology and Humanity Rereading Posthumanism in The War of the Worlds and Independence Day Alistair Brown (Durham University) Science Fiction as the Discovery of the Future In a 1902 presentation to the Royal Institution on ‘The Discovery of the Future,’ H.G. Wells contrasted two types of mind: the legal or submissive type, and the creative or legislative. 1 The former, which predominates in society, is retrospective, fatalistically understanding the present in terms of precedent. The more modern, creative type ‘sees the world as one great workshop, and the present no more than material for the future’ (Wells 1989, p.19) and is implicitly associated with the writer of science fiction (or the scientific romance, as then known). Given our acquaintance with Wells’ descendents like Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke, this seems fairly uncontentious. However, in a climate of postmodern relativism we may be less comfortable with the way in which Wells went on to formalise the relationship between present and future. He compared the creative predictions of the future to those analyses of distant prehistory made by the relatively recent sciences of geology and archaeology, and contended that it ought to be possible to produce a long term portrait of the future as has been done with the ancient ‘inductive past’ (1989, p.27). Though many prominent science fiction writers assert that science fiction is the reasonable extrapolation of present 1 A shorter version of this paper was presented to the British Society of Literature and Science conference in Keele in March 2008. I am grateful for all the comments received there, in response to which some parts of this paper have been modified. -
The Potential of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through
THE POTENTIAL OF POSTHUMANISM: REIMAGINING UTOPIA THROUGH BELLAMY, ATWOOD, AND SLONCZEWSKI by JACOB MCKEEVER Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON December 2014 Copyright © by Jacob McKeever 2014 All Rights Reserved ii Acknowledgements Though on the surface it was the smallest of gestures, this journey could not have begun without Dr. Kevin Gustafson, graduate advisor of English at the time, whose course suggestions helped this once ignorant anthropology major turned hopeful English graduate student begin this path. To Dr. Kenneth Roemer, thesis chair and director, thank you immensely for your insightful comments and guidance throughout this process. Not only were you the ideal committee chair, you were a constant figure of optimism throughout my time in the English program. To Dr. Stacy Alaimo and Dr. Timothy Richardson, committee members, my greatest appreciation goes out for your initial willingness to be a part of this committee and your eventual patience during the final stages. I sincerely appreciate all of you for your roles in both this process and my successful completion of this program. Most importantly, I want to acknowledge my family as my main inspiration and motivation. To Ashley, for subjecting yourself to my endless drafts and for your unending patience every day. And to Alec and Zoe, whose dad can finally come out and play. November 19, 2014 iii Abstract THE POTENTIAL OF POSTHUMANISM: REIMAGINING UTOPIA THROUGH BELLAMY, ATWOOD, AND SLONCZEWSKI Jacob McKeever, M.A. -
This Thesis Has Been Approved by the Honors
1 This thesis has been approved by The Honors Tutorial College and the Department of English ______________________________ Dr. Thom Dancer Professor, English Thesis Adviser ______________________________ Dr. Carey Snyder Honors Tutorial College, DOS, English ______________________________ Dr. Jeremy Webster Dean, Honors Tutorial College 2 Between Artifice and Actuality: The Aesthetic and Ethical Metafiction of Vladimir Nabokov and David Mitchell ____________________________________ A Thesis Presented to The Honors Tutorial College Ohio University _______________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation from the Honors Tutorial College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English ______________________________________ by Trent A. McDonald April 2014 3 Acknowledgments The most important person to the completion of this thesis is Dr. Thom Dancer, the best thesis adviser one could hope for. His tireless support, strong critical eye, and passionate enthusiasm for contemporary literature have made this thesis as good as it possibly could be. All of the mistakes herein should not reflect on him and should only be credited to me. My parents, Missy and Scott McDonald, are of course responsible for my attending Ohio University. Without them I would have nothing. My Director of Studies, Dr. Carey Snyder, has been of great importance to my academic life over these past four years. The faculty of Ohio University also deserve my thanks for changing my mind about so many things; I must single out in particular Dr. Josephine Bloomfield, Dr. Joseph McLaughlin, Dr. Steve Hayes, Kristin LeMay, Dr. Samuel Crowl and Dr. Matthew Stallard. The Honors Tutorial College and Dean Jeremy Webster, former Assistant Dean Jan Hodson, and current Assistant Dean Cary Frith have my eternal gratitude for the opportunities they have given to me. -
The Goldfish Syndrome. Human Nature and the Posthuman Myth Copyright Cuadernos De Bioética
Cuadernos de BioéticaLUCA XXV VAL ERA2014/3ª AND VITTORADOLFO TAMBONE THE GOLDFISH SYNDROME. HUMAN NATURE AND THE POSTHUMAN MYTH Copyright Cuadernos de Bioética THE GOLDFISH SYNDROME. HUMAN NATURE AND THE POSTHUMAN MYTH EL SÍNDROME DEL PEZ ROJO. NATURALEZA HUMANA Y EL MITO POSTUMANO LUCA VALERA* VITTORADOLFO TAMBONE** Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21, 00128 Roma * [email protected]; ** [email protected] ABSTRACT: Keywords: Posthumanism is a myth. This does not mean to say that it constitutes a narrative devoid of any foun- Posthumanism, dation, inspired by mere fantasy, far from it. The myth, as shown by Ries, Eliade and Lévi-Strauss on several myth, space and occasions, is based on something real and true, and appeals to conceptual structures that keep it away time, identity, from a mere scientific report: having had to do with the essence of things, it does not even have a purpose extensionism. of classification in a given place or time. In this sense, the posthuman myth lives outside of time and out of the common space of existence, or perhaps, it lives in its own time and in its own space. Just like the myth, posthumanism lives in consciousness: to prove this assumption, we will discuss in greater depth the spatial and temporal coordinates of posthumanism, as well as its cosmological and anthropological point of view. Once demonstrated its mythical essence, it will therefore be easier to remember how the posthuman myth – despite intending to present itself as a radically innovative and progressive thought – makes no more than re-emerge some coordinates that have always been present in the history of philosophy. -
Seaman Postsecular Posthumanism (MLA 2016)
Myra Seaman MLA 2016 (Austin) Roundtable: Becoming Human: Medieval In Pursuit of a Postsecular Posthumanities A new constellation, sometimes called “the posthuman turn,” sometimes “the nonhuman turn,” has come into view in recent years. Marked by the bright lights of the new materialisms, object studies, assemblage theory, critical animal studies, and media studies, its appearance has been hailed for the new routes it provides for (in the words of Julian Yates) “configuring the textual traces named ‘past’ as an archive or contact zone which may offer occluded or discarded ways of being” (Yates, 2010). New routes such as those brought to light through the posthuman turn use as landmarks certain traces of the past that have previously registered only as meaningless blips on the landscape. In recent years, posthumanism’s decentering of the human and flattened ontologies have helped us see in familiar medieval texts any number of participants that had remained invisible to dominant humanist approaches—the previously autonomous chivalric knight, for instance, was revealed by Jeffrey Cohen to be an assemblage of man, metal, animal (in forms both living and dead)—working in concert with any number of intangible agents. Where the humanist reading esteemed the singular valor of Sir Lancelot as exemplifying human exceptionalism, posthumanism reveals that the productive collaboration of the Round Table extends well beyond its human participants, and that chivalry (and the Human it praises) is insufficient in itself—that, in effect, it has never existed. In the light of the nonhuman turn, the late medieval past appears to have conceptualized human existence in ways we’d only partially perceived, complicating our understanding of medieval ethics, intercultural relations, natural history, and religion, among other very salient cultural markers. -
Vo» the RHETORIC of POSTHUMANISM in FOUR TWENTIETH- CENTURY INTERNATIONAL NOVELS DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Counci
/vo» THE RHETORIC OF POSTHUMANISM IN FOUR TWENTIETH- CENTURY INTERNATIONAL NOVELS DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of North Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By Lidan Lin, B. A., M. A., M. Ed. Denton, Texas August, 1998 Lin, Lidan, The Rhetoric of Posthumanism in Four Twentieth-Century International Novels. Doctor of Philosophy (English), August, 1998,195 pp., works cited, 182 titles. The dissertation traces the trope of the incomplete character in four twentieth-century cosmopolitan novels that reflect European colonialism in a global context. I argue that, by creating characters sharply aware of the insufficiency of the Self and thus constantly seeking the constitutive participation of the Other, the four authors E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, and Congwen Shen all dramatize the incomplete character as an agent of postcolonial resistance to Western humanism that, tending to enforce the divide between the Self and the Other, provided the epistemological basis for the emergence of European colonialism. For example, Fielding's good-willed aspiration to forge cross- cultural friendship in A Passage to India-, Murphy's dogged search for recognition of his Irish identity in Murphy; Susan's unfailing compassion to restore Friday's lost speech in Foe; and Changshun Teng, the Chinese orange-grower's warm-hearted generosity toward his customers in Long River-all these textual occasions dramatize the incomplete character's anxiety over the Other's rejection that will impair the fullness of his or her being, rendering it solitary and empty. I relate this anxiety to the theory of "posthumanism" advanced by such thinkers as Marx, Bakhtin, Sartre, and Lacan; in their texts the humanist view of the individual as an autonomous constitution has undergone a transformation marked by the emphasis on locating selfhood not in the insular and static Self but in the mutable middle space connecting the Self and the Other. -
Pragmatism, Postmodernism and Education
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 378 181 SP 035 703 AUTHOR Hytten, Kathy TITLE Pragmatism, Postmodernism and Education. PUB DATE 13 Nov 94 NOTE 25p.; Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association (Chapel Hill, NC, November 13, 1994). PUB TYPE Speeches/Conference Papers (150) Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PCO1 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Constructivism (Learning); *Educational Philosophy; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; *Modernism; Philosophy; Theories IDENTIFIERS *Postmodernism; *Pragmatism ABSTRACT Four ideas characterize postmodernity: skepticism toward grand narratives, critique of the assumption of a unified human subject, problematization of the notion of representation, and a celebration of otherness and difference. Drawbacks to applying postmodern theories to education include: postmodernism is illequipped to deal with morally and politically charged, normative educational issues; its focus on the local and the particular is often too narrow; too strong an emphasis on antirepresentationalism results in the inability to make normative decisions; and exaltation of differences leaves little room for effective communal action and dialogue. In light of these weaknesses, philosophical pragmatism is useful and appealing. Like postmodernists, pragmatists are skeptical of grand theories and static knowledge claims, eschew quests for certainty, view all theories as partial and hypothetical, understand knowledge to be socially constructed, and downplay representationalism. Pragmatists, unlike postmodernists, retain a moral vision, a belief in the ethical significance of both the present and what is to come, and faith in humans' ability to bring about a more desirable future. What distinguishes postmodernism and pragmatism are notions of community, dialogue, and democracy which allow individuals to best live in a world characterized by uncertainty, change, and instability. -
Redalyc.Modernity and Postmodernity in the Genesis of Transhumanism
Cuadernos de Bioética ISSN: 1132-1989 bioé[email protected] Asociación Española de Bioética y Ética Médica España Pastor, Luis Miguel; García Cuadrado, José Ángel Modernity and postmodernity in the genesis of transhumanism-posthumanism Cuadernos de Bioética, vol. XXV, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2014, pp. 335-350 Asociación Española de Bioética y Ética Médica Madrid, España Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=87535786005 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative CuadernosLUIS deMIGUE BioéticaL PASTOR XXV Y J 2014/3ªOSÉ ÁNGEL GARCÍA-CUADRADO MODERNIDAD Y POSTMODERNIDAD EN LA GÉNESIS DEL TRANSHUMANISMO-POSTHUMANISMO Copyright Cuadernos de Bioética MODERNIDAD Y POSTMODERNIDAD EN LA GÉNESIS DEL TRANSHUMANISMO-POSTHUMANISMO MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY IN THE GENESIS OF TRANSHUMANISM-POSTHUMANISM LUIS MIGUEL PASTOR Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Medical School, IMIB-Arrixaca, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. [email protected] JOSÉ ÁNGEL GARCÍA CUADRADO Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy Philosophical Anthropology. Universidad de Navarra [email protected] Abstract: Keywords: There are various authors who, within the realm of bioethics, propose as a model of the human being, Transhumanism, a man who is enhanced, transhuman or even posthuman. The philosophical roots of these bioethical posthumanism, thinkers have not been sufficiently analysed. In this article our aim is to demonstrate the connection of modernity, this movement with the evolution of philosophy over the past several decades.