Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future

Posthumanism is a descriptive and prescriptive term that describes a shift in the late 1960s and is epitomized by Foucault's "death of Man". It refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, as well as a different understanding of human exceptionalism. 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 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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 14 January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Posthumanism is a descriptive and prescriptive term that describes a shift in the late 1960s and is epitomized by Foucault's "the death of Man". It refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, as well as 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.

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 139 x 215 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350151093