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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372898
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372871
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372901
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 116 pages
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Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142237288X
Author : Francesca Ferrando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350059481
The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the “posthuman” umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence.
Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674743946
Based on an understanding of "home-sickness" as the alienation caused by being too close to home, rather than too far away. Views this "sickness" as a precondition for health, as portrayed by writers in China, Greater China, and the diaspora from late Imperial to contemporary times.
Author : Tom Idema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351846998
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments. Narrating dramatic ecological events of human-to-nonhuman encounter, invasion, and transmutation, these novels allow the reader to understand the planet as an unstable stage for evolution and the human body as a home for bacteria and viruses. Idema argues that by drawing tension from biological theories of interaction and emergence (e.g. symbiogenesis, epigenetics), these works unsettle conventional relations among characters, technologies, story-worlds, and emplotment, refiguring the psychosocial work of the novel as always already biophysical. Problematizing a desire to compartmentalize and control life as the property of human subjects, these novels imagine life as an environmentally mediated, staged event that enlists human and nonhuman actors. Idema demonstrates how literary narratives of transmutation render biological lessons of environmental instability and ecological interdependence both meaningful and urgent—a vital task in a time of mass extinction, hyperpollution, and climate change. This volume is an important intervention for scholars of the environmental humanities, posthumanism, literature and science, and science and technology studies.
Author : Katie Spalding
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780316529648
Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For example: Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, believed that he could communicate with the undead and built the world’s very first hotline to heaven: the Spirit Phone. Marie and Pierre Curie, famous for discovering radioactivity, slept next to a lump of radioactive material for years and strapped it to their arms to watch it burn them in real-time. Lord Byron, acclaimed British poet, literally took a bear with him to university. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity and motion, but he also looked up at the sun without eye protection. The result? Three days of blindness. Tesla, whose scientific work led to the invention of the AC unit, fell in love with a pigeon. Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.
Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190613495
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142238182X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004413030
Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries is an anthology of texts offering an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval theories of sense-perception. The volume offers historical and systematic approaches to themes and questions that have shaped the medieval accounts of sense-perception.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372936
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372855
Author : Caddie Alford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817361419
"An expansive and detailed reconsideration of what counts as an opinion in the age of social media"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370062
