The future of humanity : revisioning the human in the posthuman age
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The future of humanity : revisioning the human in the posthuman age
（Future perfect : images of the time to come in philosophy, politics and cultural studies）
Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., c2019
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
What is the future of humanity? What does it mean to be 'human' in the posthuman age? What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments? How are the stories that humans tell themselves implicated in the very power asymmetries and eco-political challenges that they bemoan? Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the posthuman age, the essays in this collection speak to the multifaceted geographies and counter-geographies of humanity, probing into the possible futures we face as planetary species. Some of these include: ecological issues generated by centuries of neglecting our environment(s); power asymmetries stemming from economic and cultural globalization; violence and its affective politics informed by cultural, ethnic, and racial genocides; religious disputes; social inequities produced by consumerism; gender normativity; and the increasing impact of digital and AI (artificial intelligence) technology on the human body, as well as historical, socio-political, not to mention ethical relations.
Table of Contents
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
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