Being Posthuman
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Being Posthuman

Ontologies of the Future

Zahi Zalloua

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Being Posthuman

Ontologies of the Future

Zahi Zalloua

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Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault's "the death of Man". Secondly, it refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, along with a different understanding of human exceptionalism. 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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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2020
ISBN
9781350151109
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

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    Citation styles for Being Posthuman

    APA 6 Citation

    Zalloua, Z. (2021). Being Posthuman (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2035626/being-posthuman-pdf (Original work published 2021)

    Chicago Citation

    Zalloua, Zahi. (2021) 2021. Being Posthuman. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.perlego.com/book/2035626/being-posthuman-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Zalloua, Z. (2021) Being Posthuman. 1st edn. Bloomsbury Publishing. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2035626/being-posthuman-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Zalloua, Zahi. Being Posthuman. 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.