Posthumanism / edited by Neil Badmington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badmington, Neil, 1971-

Series:

Readers in cultural criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 172 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.

Summary:

What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This book offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics--postcolonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction. "Posthumanism" addresses these and other questions in an attempt to come to terms with one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism / Neil Badmington 1

2 The Great Family of Man / Roland Barthes 11

3 The Instinct / Rosalind Coward 14

4 The Wretched of the Earth / Frantz Fanon 23

5 The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences / Michel Foucault 27

6 Marxism and Humanism / Louis Althusser 30

7 Prophylaxis and Virulence / Jean Baudrillard 34

8 Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman? / Paula Rabinowitz 42

9 Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs / Judith Halberstam 56

10 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century / Donna J. Haraway 69

11 Posthumanist (Com)Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass / Neil Badmington 85

12 Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System / Scott Bukatman 98

13 Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital / Bill Readings 112

14 Can Thought Go On Without a Body? / Jean-Francois Lyotard 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.

ISBN:

0333765370

0333765389

0312237936

0312237944

OCLC:

44045601