The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a...
The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the 1980s, mainstream feminist circles seem to have turned their back on the staple notions of poststructuralist philosophy. Metamorphoses takes stock of the situation and attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist...
"Posthumà" és un terme que vol descriure, des de múltiples perspectives, la mena de subjectes que estem esdevenint, més enllà de l'humanisme clàssic i de l'antropocentrisme. Rosi Braidotti l'adopta com a hipòtesi de treball per determinar quins són i com es generen els nous coneixements que hi estan associats.La consciència del que estem deixant de ser i del que estem en procés d'esdevenir és el punt de partida per comprendre un nou subjecte posthumà, un «nosaltres»...
