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Banerji, Debashish, Md. Monirul Islam, and Samrat Sengupta, editors. Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2025.
Abstract
The book is about what posthumanism means in the contemporary Indian context and what different lines of consideration this can take. The world today has universalized a Eurocentric history of the human with its privileges, oppressions, exploitations and exclusions. On the one hand, this has led to the triumphalist narrative of technology, the blurring of biological embodiment through prostheses and the dream of transhumanist self-exceeding. On the other hand, we are witness to the contemporary eruption of dystopian anomalies due to the dis-balance or revolt of the “others” of humanism – climate crisis, chronic pandemic, religious, ethnocentric and geopolitical violence, ideological and authoritarian state control. Posthumanism is both an acknowledgement of these blurred boundaries of humanism and a critical response to it.
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Banerji, Debashish. 2021. 'Traditions of Yoga in Existential Posthuman Praxis'. Journal of Posthumanism 1 (2): 213–17. https://doi.org/10.33182/jp.v1i2.1777.
Abstract
This is a discussion of Francesca Ferrando's book Philosophical Posthumanism, focusing in particular on three chapters, 'Antihumanism and the Übermensch', 'Technologies of the Self as Posthumanist (Re)Sources' and 'Posthumanist Perspectivism'. It traces the origins and implications of the concepts at the center of these chapters from a posthumanist perspective. It then evaluates these implications from the viewpoint of a non-Western praxis, specifically the spiritual praxis of Indian yoga. For this, it elaborates briefly on some genealogies of yoga and discusses what an intersection of posthumanism and yoga may look like. It holds that such a consideration would enhance the concepts of the chapters in question in Ferrando's text.
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Braidotti, Rosi. 2019. 'Affirmative Ethics and Generative Life'. Deleuze and Guattari Studies 13 (4): 463–81. https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2019.0373.
Abstract
Rosi Braidotti's contribution to the Deleuze Studies Conference 2016 held in Rome (University of Roma Tre, 11–13 July), later transcribed and then revised by the author, points firmly to the current need for an affirmative thinking approach, actively standing to the present, while assessing its becoming and imagining new configurations. Saying yes to the world, being worthy of it, does not entail passive acceptance but rather the activation of transformative and critical thinking. To this aim, Braidotti looks at Deleuze as well as at feminist theory. The ontology of immanence turns into a materialist, collective, vital, embodied and relational ethics..
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Daigle, Christine. 2023. 'Posthumanism and Postdisciplinarity: Breaking Our Old Teaching and Research Habits'. In Posthumanism in Practice, edited by Christine Daigle and Matthew Hayler, 227–40. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Ferrando, Francesca. 2023. 'Existential Posthumanism: A Manifesto'. In More Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosi Braidotti, Emily Jones, and Goda Klumbytė, 47–49. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Abstract
Who are we, humans of the 21 st century? This question is at the core of posthumanism, which redefines the notion of humanity relationally, counting on plurality, ecology and technology as integral parts of the human. This opens radical opportunities in the possible evolutions of individuals and societies, the futures of the human species, the dignity of non-human entities, and the health of planet Earth. The issues at stake are very high. And still, often, theory and practice do not go hand in hand: theorists write about posthumanism, but posthumanism does not necessarily affect the ways we live and behave. Existential posthumanism marks a profound change, by focussing, specifically, on how to exist as posthumanists: right here, right now.
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Ferrando, Francesca. 2023. The Art of Being Posthuman: Who Are We in the 21st Century? Cambridge: Polity.
Abstract
This book offers a comprehensive reflection on the existential condition of the 21st century. A visionary introduction to existential posthumanism, it takes the form of eight meditations.This posthuman journey of self-inquiry engages with a wide range of knowledge and wisdom: from the Paleolithic times to the futures of radical life extension, from multi-species evolutions to the rights of Nature, the Anthropocene and the rise of Artificial Intelligence.The book declutters the habit of being human. Letting go of the need for anthropocentric mastery and species-specific ambitions, the reader emerges regenerated. The manifold paths of posthuman self-realization reveal that we are all co-creators in the existential unfolding: our lives are our ultimate works of art.
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Ferrando, Francesca, and Stefano Rozzoni. 'Images of the Human Being: Posthumanism'. In: Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham (2026), pp. 1-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51703-7_257-1
Introduction (excerpt)
To grasp the Anthropocene—both as a concept and as a material phenomenon—is to confront often contradictory images. On the one hand, one can think of a human cutting a secular tree in the rainforest, a bird trapped in oil on a polluted ocean, a ghostly landfill of discarded electronics, multitudes of humans forced to migrate due to climate change, and the loneliness of many digital natives in hyperconnected environments. On the other hand, other images also emerge: human beings risking their life to protect elephants from poachers, a rhizome of roots and fungi nourishing a struggling tree, little birds nesting in a garage to seek protection from nonhuman predators, a breathtaking dawn reflected on t he solarpaneled façade of a skyscraper, and the radiant joy of a family reunited by a distant video call. These sets of images reveal the dualities of destruction and care, despair and delight, and beauty and precarity that characterize the Anthropocene. In this entry, such apparent contrasts merge into an integrated perspective which acknowledges the Anthropocene not merely as a condition affecting the planet (including the human and nonhuman lives that constitute it) but as a dynamic field of existential engagement.
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Marchesini, Roberto. 2024. Posthumanist Manifesto: A Pluralistic Approach. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Abstract
Posthumanist Manifesto: A Pluralistic Approach compares the posthumanist proposal with humanism and transhumanism in ethics, aesthetics, ontology, and epistemology. Roberto Marchesini clarifies the specificity of the posthumanist approach and the novelty of its theoretical and applicative program. Beyond theoretical aspects of poshumanism, this book proposes new approaches to social models, personal rights and citizenship, the relationship between the biosphere and the ecological crisis, and the impact of technology.
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