Framing the End of the Species
The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]
The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (2014) by Claire Colebrook From the Introduction: There are three senses of extinction: the now widely discussed sixth great extinction […]
Dr David Roden has worked for the Open University as a lecturer and associate lecturer. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the […]
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter by Karen Barad “Where did we ever get the strange idea that nature—as opposed to culture—is ahistorical and timeless? We […]
What follows is a response to a point made by David Roden in the post “Against Non-Philosophical Humanism“. I am not critiquing the Post-humanist stance as such, though. I found […]
From David Roden ~ Against Non-Philosophical Humanism My account of unbound posthumanism (See Roden 2018 and here) draws some methodological inspiration from François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy, though its point of departure and […]
Abstract: ‘We don’t live in a post-facts world, nor should we want to. Human beings need to be recognised, in their states of precarity and oppression, as being human before […]
[Bernard Stiegler] relates that the automated processes implemented by algorithmic governmentality to Félix Guattari’s concepts of molecular machinic unconscious and machinic enslavement. The example used by Guattari for machinic enslavement […]
An excellent and compact outline of some differences between posthumanism and transhumanism from David Roden here: Posthumanists may, but need not, claim that humans are becoming more intertwined with technology. They […]