{"product_id":"critical-posthumanism-and-planetary-futures-9788132238744","title":"Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Critical Turn in Posthumanism and Postcolonial Interventions \u003ci\u003eDebashish Banerji and Makarand Paranjpe\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Critical Theory: The Posthuman Turn.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e“Posthuman Critical Theory” \u003ci\u003eRosi Braidotti\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e “The Overhuman” Nandita Biswas Mellamphy.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eNietzsche’s Snowden: Tightrope Walking the Posthuman Dispositif” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Carlson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003e“Exits to the Posthuman Future: Dreaming with Drones”  \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“‘Synthetik Love Lasts Forever’: Sex Dolls and the (Post?)Human Condition” \u003ci\u003ePrayag Ray\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Subalternity and Posthumanism.- Chapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens” \u003ci\u003eMonirul Islam\u0026lt;.- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Two Senses of the Post in Posthuman” \u003ci\u003ePal Ahluwalia\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInformation-power: Teletechnology and the Ethics of Human-Animal Difference\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e” \u003ci\u003eSamrat Sengupta\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Durga, Supermom, and the Posthuman Mother India” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eSucharita Sarkar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e“Beyond the Mother-machine: Surrogacy and Neo-eugenics in India” \u003ci\u003eAmrita Pande\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Reconstructions.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e“P2P and Planetary Futures” \u003ci\u003eJose Ramos, Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eDecolonizing the State of Nature: Notes on Political Animism\u003cstrong\u003e” \u003ci\u003eFederico Luisetti\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Spiritual Pragmatics: New Pathways of Transformation for the Posthuman” \u003ci\u003eAnanta Kumar Giri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e “Have Humans Always Been Posthuman: A Spiritual Genealogy of the Posthuman” \u003ci\u003eFrancesca Ferrando\u003c\/i\u003e.- \u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e “Individuation, Cosmogenesis and Technology: Sri Aurobindo and Gilbert Simondon” \u003ci\u003eDebashish Banerji\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer, India, Private Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53209504088407,"sku":"9788132238744","price":125.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-posthumanism-and-planetary-futures-9788132238744","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}