Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one h
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ritical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
Debashish Banerji Makarand R. Paranjape •
Editors
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
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Editors Debashish Banerji California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, CA USA
ISBN 978-81-322-3635-1 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-3637-5
Makarand R. Paranjape Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
ISBN 978-81-322-3637-5
(eBook)
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Contents
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The Critical Turn in Posthumanism and Postcolonial Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debashish Banerji and Makarand R. Paranjape
Part I
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Critical Theory: The Posthuman Turn
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Posthuman Critical Theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosi Braidotti
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The Overhuman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
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Nietzsche’s Snowden: Tightrope Walking the Posthuman Dispositif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard J. Carlson
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Exits to the Posthuman Future: Dreaming with Drones . . . . . . . . . . Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker
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‘Synthetik Love Lasts Forever’: Sex Dolls and the (Post?)Human Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prayag Ray
Part II
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Subalternity and Posthumanism
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Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Md. Monirul Islam
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Two Senses of the Post in Posthumanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Pal Ahluwalia
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Information-Power: Teletechnology and the Ethics of Human–Animal Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Samrat S
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