Posthuman Glossary

Resumen del libro

If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on a mass scale, the perpetual war on terror and extensive security systems- with a troublesome reiteration of old, unresolved problems that mean the concept of the human as we had previously known it has undergone dramatic transformations. The Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work.

It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the complex reality of the 'posthuman condition', and creates an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-a-vis critical present-day developments. It bridges missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities.

This original work will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike.

Biografía del autor

Rosi Braidotti (Latisana, Venecia, 1954). Filósofa y académica italiana, crecida en Australia. Enseña en los Países Bajos, en la Universidad de Utrecht, desde 1988. Es una de las principales autoridades en los estudios sobre el tema de la subjetividad y lo posthumano, sobre todo en relación a las perspectivas neofeministas. Entre sus libros publicados en italiano: x{0026}lt;i Soggetto nomade. Femminismo e crisi della modernitàx{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Sujeto nómada. Feminismo y crisis de la modernidadx{0026}lt;/i ) (1995), x{0026}lt;i In metamorfosi. Verso una teoria materialista del divenirex{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i En metamorfosis. Hacia una teoría materialista del devenirx{0026}lt;/i ) (2003), x{0026}lt;i Madri, mostri e macchinex{0026}lt;/i (x{0026}lt;i Madres,monstruos y máquinasx{0026}lt;/i ) (2005). En Gedisa están publicados x{0026}lt;i Feminismo, diferencia sexual y subjetividad nómade, Transposiciones, Por una política afirmativax{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Lo posthumanox{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i El conocimiento posthumano.x{0026}lt;/i