{"product_id":"the-future-of-humanity-revisioning-the-human-in-the-posthuman-age-9781538147962","title":"The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReframing the humanist subject as a complex temporal material and a differential ecology of affects, this exciting interdisciplinary collection enables multiple entry points to new thinking in support of posthuman futures. The essays explore shared incursions of biology and technology to redefine what it means to be human in the twenty-first century and articulate non-anthropocentric perspectives with planetary implications. -- Simone Bignall, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology in Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary meditations on the posthuman condition reminds us that we all have a stake in the shape of the digital future. The essays offer captivating and occasionally unsettling glimpses of an emerging reality that will challenge settled assumptions about the very nature of human existence, and compel us to consider our place in a new order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Herrick, Guy VanderJagt Professor of Communication, Hope College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary meditations on the posthuman condition reminds us that we all have a stake in the shape of the digital future. The essays offer captivating and occasionally unsettling glimpses of an emerging reality that will challenge settled assumptions about the very nature of human existence, and compel us to consider our place in a new order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Herrick, Guy VanderJagt Professor of Communication, Hope College\u003cbr\u003eWhy read this book? Because it dares to ask questions that are precise, substantial and necessary, when thinking about what's coming next. The future analyzed here is not mere speculation based on personal conjectures, but it manifests in the ramifications of causes and effects well rooted in the history of humankind. The future, in this sense, does not come from nowhere: it is already here. -- Francesca Ferrando, Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU-Liberal Studies, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reflections on the (Post)Human Future, Pavlina Radia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective, Fred Spier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns, David Witzling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity, Gillian McCann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9\/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America’s Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor’s Story, Aaron Weiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine Bolus-Reichert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male, Laurie Kruk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Posthuman Futures, Laurie Kruk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity, Catherine Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: ‘Not Born in a Garden’: Donna Haraway, Cyborgs, and Posthuman Contemporary Art, Eric Weichel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Humanity in the Digital Era, Pavlina Radia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Radical Post-Cartesianism, Or the Post-Human Potentials of Artificial Neural Networks in Our Hyperconnected Age, Chris Vitale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy, Modulation Chains, and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era, Adam Nash\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041188348247,"sku":"9781538147962","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538147962.jpg?v=1750949273","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-future-of-humanity-revisioning-the-human-in-the-posthuman-age-9781538147962","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}