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Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures

Editat de Debashish Banerji, Makarand R. Paranjape
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This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one hand, we find ourselves in a digital age in which human identity is being transformed through networked technological intervention, a large part of our consciousness transferred to "smart" external devices. On the other hand, we are assisted---or assailed---by an unprecedented proliferation of quasi-human substitutes and surrogates, forming a spectrum of humanoids with fuzzy borders. Under these conditions, critical posthumanism asks, who will occupy and control our planet: Will the "superhuman" merely serve as another sign under which new regimes of dominance are spread across the earth? Or can we discover or invent technologies of existence to counter such dominance? It is issues such as these which are at the heart of this new volume of explorations of the posthuman.  The essays in this volume offer leading-edge thought on the subject, with special emphases on postmodern and postcolonial futures. They engage with questions of subalternity and feminism vis-à-vis posthumanism, dealing with issues of subjugation, dispensability and surrogacy, as well as the possibilities of resistance, ethical politics or subjective transformation from South Asian archives of cultural and spiritual practice. This volume is a valuable addition to the on-going global dialogues on posthumanism, indispensable to those, from across several disciplines, who are interested in postcolonial and planetary futures.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788132236351
ISBN-10: 8132236351
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: XIII, 277 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer India
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India

Cuprins

Chapter 1. The Critical Turn in Posthumanism and Postcolonial Interventions Debashish Banerji and Makarand Paranjpe.- Part I: Critical Theory: The Posthuman Turn.- Chapter 2. “Posthuman Critical Theory” Rosi Braidotti.- Chapter 3. “The Overhuman” Nandita Biswas Mellamphy.- Chapter 4. Nietzsche’s Snowden: Tightrope Walking the Posthuman Dispositif” Richard Carlson.- Chapter 5. “Exits to the Posthuman Future: Dreaming with Drones”  Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker.- Chapter 6. “‘Synthetik Love Lasts Forever’: Sex Dolls and the (Post?)Human Condition” Prayag Ray.- Part II: Subalternity and Posthumanism.- Chapter 7. “Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens” Monirul Islam<.- Chapter 8. Two Senses of the Post in Posthuman” Pal Ahluwalia.- Chapter 9. Information-power: Teletechnology and the Ethics of Human-Animal DifferenceSamrat Sengupta.- Chapter 10. “Durga, Supermom, and the Posthuman Mother India” Sucharita Sarkar.- Chapter 11. “Beyond the Mother-machine: Surrogacy and Neo-eugenics in India” Amrita Pande.- Part III: Reconstructions.- Chapter 12. “P2P and Planetary Futures” Jose Ramos, Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis.- Chapter 13. Decolonizing the State of Nature: Notes on Political AnimismFederico Luisetti.- Chapter 14. “Spiritual Pragmatics: New Pathways of Transformation for the Posthuman” Ananta Kumar Giri.- Chapter 15. “Have Humans Always Been Posthuman: A Spiritual Genealogy of the Posthuman” Francesca Ferrando.- Chapter 16. “Individuation, Cosmogenesis and Technology: Sri Aurobindo and Gilbert Simondon” Debashish Banerji.

Notă biografică

Debashish Banerji is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He has curated a number of exhibitions on Indian and Japanese Art and has written extensively on philosophy, art history, culture studies, postcolonialism and posthumanism. He is the author of The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (SAGE, 2010) and Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (DKPW, 2012).
Makarand R. Paranjape is Professor of English at Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He served as the inaugural Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair in Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore (2010–11). His recent publications include Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority (2013); Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in English (2010); and Altered Destinations: Self, Society and Nation in India (2009). He is the Principal Investigator of an internationally funded project on “Science and Spirituality in India.”

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This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one hand, we find ourselves in a digital age in which human identity is being transformed through networked technological intervention, a large part of our consciousness transferred to "smart" external devices. On the other hand, we are assisted—or assailed—by an unprecedented proliferation of quasi-human substitutes and surrogates, forming a spectrum of humanoids with fuzzy borders. Under these conditions, critical posthumanism asks, who will occupy and control our planet: Will the "superhuman" merely serve as another sign under which new regimes of dominance are spread across the earth? Or can we discover or invent technologies of existence to counter such dominance? It is issues such as these which are at the heart of this new volume of explorations of the posthuman. The essays in this volume offer leading-edge thought on the subject, with special emphases on postmodern and postcolonial futures. They engage with questions of subalternity and feminism vis-à-vis posthumanism, dealing with issues of subjugation, dispensability and surrogacy, as well as the possibilities of resistance, ethical politics or subjective transformation from South Asian archives of cultural and spiritual practice. This volume is a valuable addition to the on-going global dialogues on posthumanism, indispensable to those, from across several disciplines, who are interested in postcolonial and planetary futures.

Caracteristici

Provides a comprehensive spectrum of approaches to posthumanism
Includes postcolonial, subaltern and feminist approaches to posthumanism
Includes discussions on positive possibilities to critical posthumanism drawn from South Asia
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras