Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future
Autor Zahi Zallouaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2021
In Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future, Zahi Zalloua interrogates this future and shows that "post-" does not necessarily mean 'after' or that what comes after is more advanced than what has gone before. He pursues this line of inquiry across four distinct, yet interrelated, figures: cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized and excluded 'others'. These figures disrupt the narrative of the 'human' and its singularity and by reading them together, Zalloua determines that it is only when posthumanist discourse is combined with psychoanalysis that subjectivity can be properly examined.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350151093
ISBN-10: 1350151092
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 136 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350151092
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 136 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction: The Improper of the Human
Chapter 1: Cyborgs
Chapter 2: Animals
Chapter 3: Object Fever
Chapter 4: Black Being
Conclusion: Inhuman Posthumanism
Chapter 1: Cyborgs
Chapter 2: Animals
Chapter 3: Object Fever
Chapter 4: Black Being
Conclusion: Inhuman Posthumanism
Recenzii
Traversing the history of philosophy, Zahi Zalloua brilliantly shows the ethical urgency of an inhuman posthumanism that attends to those who reside in the neighborhood of the human but are never fully at home there. Engaging with philosophy, film, and literature, Zalloua articulates the ways in which the cyborg, animal, object and racialized other put pressure on the concept of the human. Along the way, Zalloua powerfully demonstrates the importance of both continental philosophy and psychoanalysis to developing a notion of the posthuman.
Zahi Zalloua's Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future is an excellent intervention into debates over posthumanism and the new materialisms, bringing not only a solid critique based on the "dialectical-materialist" wing of Lacanian psychoanalysis (the Slovenian school avec such American critics as Todd McGowan and Joan Copjec) but also an anti-colonial and anti-racist reading grounded both in Palestinian struggles and Black Studies. In addition, his cultural examples, from Black Mirror to J.M. Coetzee, Sorry to Bother You to Waltz with Bashir, and engagements with theorists from Haraway to Latour, Derrida to Moten, demonstrate how cultural studies today can challenge theoretical orthodoxies via the most up-to-date in contemporary literature and cinema. Buy this book, read it, and then burn the system down!
Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future offers a rigorous, imaginative, and path-breaking analysis of posthumanism and rethinks 'being' without humanist (and metaphysical) fantasies of perfection, properness, exceptionalism, hierarchy, anthropocentricism, and the One. By foregrounding the "inhuman," as the extimate and constitutive core of the (post)human, Zahi Zalloua avoids the philosophical narcissism of transhumanism, the pitfalls of new materialism, and the racial blind spots of object-oriented ontology. Through psychoanalytic readings of cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized others, Being Posthuman presents a new vision of life in a world compounded by global capital, anti-blackness, and climate change-a life improper, non-all, incomplete, fugitive, and fluid. This is truly a remarkable and substantial work.
Zahi Zalloua's Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future is an excellent intervention into debates over posthumanism and the new materialisms, bringing not only a solid critique based on the "dialectical-materialist" wing of Lacanian psychoanalysis (the Slovenian school avec such American critics as Todd McGowan and Joan Copjec) but also an anti-colonial and anti-racist reading grounded both in Palestinian struggles and Black Studies. In addition, his cultural examples, from Black Mirror to J.M. Coetzee, Sorry to Bother You to Waltz with Bashir, and engagements with theorists from Haraway to Latour, Derrida to Moten, demonstrate how cultural studies today can challenge theoretical orthodoxies via the most up-to-date in contemporary literature and cinema. Buy this book, read it, and then burn the system down!
Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future offers a rigorous, imaginative, and path-breaking analysis of posthumanism and rethinks 'being' without humanist (and metaphysical) fantasies of perfection, properness, exceptionalism, hierarchy, anthropocentricism, and the One. By foregrounding the "inhuman," as the extimate and constitutive core of the (post)human, Zahi Zalloua avoids the philosophical narcissism of transhumanism, the pitfalls of new materialism, and the racial blind spots of object-oriented ontology. Through psychoanalytic readings of cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized others, Being Posthuman presents a new vision of life in a world compounded by global capital, anti-blackness, and climate change-a life improper, non-all, incomplete, fugitive, and fluid. This is truly a remarkable and substantial work.