Future of Humanity - Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age

This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.

List of contents

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Chapter Twelve: Actual Fantasy, Modulation Chains, and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Art and Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era, Adam Nash

About the author

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Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She has published The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012).

Product details

• Authors: Pavlina Winters Radia
• Assisted by: Laurie Kruk (Editor), Kruk Laurie (Editor), Pavlina Radia (Editor), Radia Pavlina (Editor), Sarah Fiona Winters (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781538147962
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4796-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800