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Posthuman Glossary

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If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human at the centre of their respective realms. 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, to name but a few significant markers of our time- 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.

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 attempts to create an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-a-vis critical present-day developments. It aims to bridge multiple missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities. A completely original work which will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike.

576 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2018

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Maria Hlavajova

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Maria Hlavajova is Founding Artistic Director of BAK (basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht) and Artistic Director of Former West (2008–2016).

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Most of the concepts I already knew but some others were interesting. There is also a bibliography that helps a lot
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June 29, 2025
Неиницирани да почну одавде:
Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism by Pramod K. Nayar
• Упознатост са историјом филозофске мисли је потребна!

Речник постхуманизма је написан неуједначено; неки уноси су беспотребно опширни, али нема интелектуалног шарлатанства када је биологија у питању. Постхуманисте, за разлику од постмодерниста, одликује озбиљност у третирању научних сазнања. Google’s Gemini је одличан за јасно и концизно дефинисање појмова који су у речнику обрађени неадекватно.

Две напомене:
• У одељку о негетропији се не спомиње најважније – да ентропија живих бића бива смањена на рачун повећања ентропије средине.
• У одељку о постглацијалном се тврди да постоје живи мокроокрганизми заробљени у леду стари четиристо хиљада година, без цитата. До сада је из леда изолована само бактеријска ДНК ове старости, али то не значи да су у леду биле и ћелије или споре: Drancourt, M., & Raoult, D. (2005). Palaeomicrobiology: current issues and perspectives. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 3(1), 23–35. https://doi.org/10.1038/NRMICRO1063

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