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Posthumanism: Readers in Cultural Criticism

Autor Professor Neil Badmington
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What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader 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. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction? Posthumanism addresses these and other questions in an attempt to come to terms with one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333765388
ISBN-10: 0333765389
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2000
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria Readers in Cultural Criticism

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Contains essays from both major theorists and up-and-coming new names in the field

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

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.

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What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader 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. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction? Posthumanism addresses these and other questions in an attempt to come to terms with one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.