The Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Herausgeber: Radia, Pavlina; Kruk, Laurie; Winters, Sarah Fiona
The Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Herausgeber: Radia, Pavlina; Kruk, Laurie; Winters, Sarah Fiona
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.
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- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 559g
- ISBN-13: 9781786609564
- ISBN-10: 1786609568
- Artikelnr.: 56154327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 559g
- ISBN-13: 9781786609564
- ISBN-10: 1786609568
- Artikelnr.: 56154327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University. She has published The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012). Pavlina Radia is Associate Dean of Arts and Science and Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. She is also the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: "Two 28 Very Serious Ladies" (2016) and Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (2016). She is also a co-editor of Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts with Ann McCulloch (2012). Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in postwar children's fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy.
Introduction: Reflections on the (Post)Human Future
Pavlina Radia Part I: Humanity
Big History
and Politics of Progress
Sarah Winters Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective
Fred Spier Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns
David Witzling Chapter Three: Gender
Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns
Manuel Litalien Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past
Laurie Kruk Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity
Gillian McCann Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture
Pavlina Radia Chapter Six: Art
Trauma
and History: A Survivor's Story
Aaron Weiss Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins
Sarah Winters Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction
Christine Bolus-Reichert Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male
Laurie Kruk Part IV: Posthuman Futures
Laurie Kruk Chapter Nine: Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity
Catherine Jenkins Chapter Ten: 'Not Born in a Garden': Donna Haraway
Cyborgs
and Posthuman Contemporary Art
Eric Weichel Part V: Humanity in the Digital Era
Pavlina Radia Chapter Eleven: Radical Post-Cartesianism
Or the Post-Human Potentials of Artificial Neural Networks in Our Hyperconnected Age
Chris Vitale Chapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy
Modulation Chains
and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era
Adam Nash
Pavlina Radia Part I: Humanity
Big History
and Politics of Progress
Sarah Winters Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective
Fred Spier Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns
David Witzling Chapter Three: Gender
Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns
Manuel Litalien Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past
Laurie Kruk Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity
Gillian McCann Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture
Pavlina Radia Chapter Six: Art
Trauma
and History: A Survivor's Story
Aaron Weiss Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins
Sarah Winters Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction
Christine Bolus-Reichert Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male
Laurie Kruk Part IV: Posthuman Futures
Laurie Kruk Chapter Nine: Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity
Catherine Jenkins Chapter Ten: 'Not Born in a Garden': Donna Haraway
Cyborgs
and Posthuman Contemporary Art
Eric Weichel Part V: Humanity in the Digital Era
Pavlina Radia Chapter Eleven: Radical Post-Cartesianism
Or the Post-Human Potentials of Artificial Neural Networks in Our Hyperconnected Age
Chris Vitale Chapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy
Modulation Chains
and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era
Adam Nash
Introduction: Reflections on the (Post)Human Future
Pavlina Radia Part I: Humanity
Big History
and Politics of Progress
Sarah Winters Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective
Fred Spier Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns
David Witzling Chapter Three: Gender
Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns
Manuel Litalien Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past
Laurie Kruk Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity
Gillian McCann Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture
Pavlina Radia Chapter Six: Art
Trauma
and History: A Survivor's Story
Aaron Weiss Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins
Sarah Winters Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction
Christine Bolus-Reichert Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male
Laurie Kruk Part IV: Posthuman Futures
Laurie Kruk Chapter Nine: Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity
Catherine Jenkins Chapter Ten: 'Not Born in a Garden': Donna Haraway
Cyborgs
and Posthuman Contemporary Art
Eric Weichel Part V: Humanity in the Digital Era
Pavlina Radia Chapter Eleven: Radical Post-Cartesianism
Or the Post-Human Potentials of Artificial Neural Networks in Our Hyperconnected Age
Chris Vitale Chapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy
Modulation Chains
and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era
Adam Nash
Pavlina Radia Part I: Humanity
Big History
and Politics of Progress
Sarah Winters Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective
Fred Spier Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns
David Witzling Chapter Three: Gender
Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns
Manuel Litalien Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past
Laurie Kruk Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity
Gillian McCann Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture
Pavlina Radia Chapter Six: Art
Trauma
and History: A Survivor's Story
Aaron Weiss Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins
Sarah Winters Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction
Christine Bolus-Reichert Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male
Laurie Kruk Part IV: Posthuman Futures
Laurie Kruk Chapter Nine: Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity
Catherine Jenkins Chapter Ten: 'Not Born in a Garden': Donna Haraway
Cyborgs
and Posthuman Contemporary Art
Eric Weichel Part V: Humanity in the Digital Era
Pavlina Radia Chapter Eleven: Radical Post-Cartesianism
Or the Post-Human Potentials of Artificial Neural Networks in Our Hyperconnected Age
Chris Vitale Chapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy
Modulation Chains
and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era
Adam Nash