Posthuman Glossary - Rosi Braidotti
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If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on a mass scale, the perpetual war on terror and extensive security systems- with a troublesome reiteration of old, unresolved problems that mean the concept of the human as we had previously known it has undergone dramatic transformations. The Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the...
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2018Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc576 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1350030252ISBN-13: 9781350030251Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2018, 576pp, Nette paperback, z.g.a.n. [Auteur: Braidotti, Professor Rosi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Hlavajova, Maria] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC] [Jaar: 2018] [Titel: Posthuman Glossary]
