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"Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across the social sciences and humanities. This is the case particularly in those traditions emerging from European and Enlightenment philosophies. Posthumanism disrupts these traditional humanist outlooks and interrogates their profound shaping of how we see ourselves, our place in the world, and our role in its protection.In Posthumanism in Practice, artists, researchers, educators, and curators set out how they have developed and responded to posthumanist ideas across their work in the arts, sciences, and humanities, and provide examples and insights to support the exploration of posthumanism in how we can think, create, and live. In capturing these ideas, Posthumanism in Practice shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action, and produce new artefacts, effects, and methods that are more relevant and more useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st century"--

Abstract
The year's work in posthumanism includes both surveys of the field and publications that contribute significantly to posthumanist thought by examining processes and practices that call the singularity of the human into question. If we were to think of the principal strands of posthumanist thought that dominated publications in 2023, then human embodiment, environmentalism, and care-beyond-the-human, appearing in multiple collections and essays, would be clear choices. This review is divided into four key sections that consider how such strands play out in a range of disciplinary contexts in work published across 2023: 1. Surveys and Elaborations, which considers comprehensive accounts of the posthumanist school of thought and works that contribute to specific posthumanist themes; 2. Posthumanism in Literature and Culture, which considers the continuing interest in the literary and cultural enunciations of the posthuman, particularly fiction and art; 3. Posthumanism and the Anthropocene, which considers posthumanism's intersections with environmental thought; and 4. Posthumanism and Care, which examines work on theorizations of care in which non-human and other-than-human care figure prominently.

"This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and 'speciesist' politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other life forms, and our human form inescapably influenced by tools and technology. Finally the book explores posthumanism's roots in disability studies, animal studies and bioethics to underscore the constructed nature of 'normalcy' in bodies, and the singularity of species and life itself. As this book powerfully demonstrates, posthumanism marks a radical reassessment of the human as constituted by symbiosis, assimilation, difference and dependence upon and with other species. Mapping the terrain of these far-reaching debates, Posthumanism will be an invaluable companion to students of cultural studies and modern and contemporary literature."--Page 4 of cover

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and 'speciesist' politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its co-evolution with other

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism -- 2 The Great Family of Man -- 3 The Instinct -- 4 The Wretched of the Earth -- 5 The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences -- 6 Marxism and Humanism -- 7 Prophylaxis and Virulence -- 8 Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman? -- 9 Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs -- 10 A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century -- 11 Posthumanist (Com)Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass -- 12 Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System -- 13 Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital -- 14 Can Thought Go On Without a Body? -- Summaries and Notes -- Glossary -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Renaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods--"Renaissance" signifying a rebirth of the ancient and "Posthumanism" a death of the modern--to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism

"Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies"--

"Nietzsche's Posthumanism explores the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary posthumanism. Focusing specifically on Nietzsche's reception of the life sciences of his day and his reflections on technology, Edgar Landgraf provides both fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of post- and transhumanist philosophies"--

Posthumanism and its core ideas have been spreading in different parts of the world and in various areas of human interest as a response to the multi-faceted problems human and more-than-human worlds are facing. In the spirit of addressing the burning questions of our times from diverse global and multi-disciplinary perspectives within the context of Posthumanism, we came together to start a new journal: Journal of Posthumanism (JoPH). As the field's first multidisciplinary and multilingual journal, the JoPH, aims to bring together conversations that go beyond Anglo-American academia, including marginalized ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and axiologies, as well as underrepresented disciplines, experiences, views, cultures, and histories. By marking global multiple chapters and discussions in the area, the JoPH promises to expand fresh and diverse understandings of posthumanisms. With the hope of continuing the dialogue on a global forum in solidarity with other journals, we invite all researchers, writers, artists, activists, and scholars from different disciplines to share their work with us.

Pothumanism refers to this line of thought which advocates the improvement of humans by technologies, based inter alia on the new convergence between nanotechnologies, biotechnology, computer sciences and cognitive sciences. The article looks at how our lifestyles fit with this movement of thought. ; Le posthumanisme désigne ce courant de pensée qui prône l'amélioration de l'humain par les technologies, sur la base notamment de la convergence nouvelles entre nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, sciences informatiques et sciences cognitives. L'article étudie la congruence de nos modes de vie avec ce mouvement de pensée.