Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Posthuman Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Posthuman Management

What are the best practices for leading a workforce in which human employees have merged cognitively and physically with electronic information systems and work alongside social robots, artificial life-forms, and self-aware networks that are ‘colleagues’ rather than simply ‘tools’? How does one manage organizational structures and activities that span actual and virtual worlds? How are the forces of technological posthumanization transforming the theory and practice of management? This volume explores the reality that an organization’s workers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders increasingly comprise a complex network of human agents, artificial agents, and hybrid human-sy...

On Transhumanism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

On Transhumanism

Transhumanism is widely misunderstood, in part because the media have exaggerated current technologies and branded the movement as dangerous, leading many to believe that hybrid humans may soon walk among us and that immortality, achieved by means of mind-uploading, is imminent. In this essential and clarifying volume, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner debunks widespread myths about transhumanism and tackles the most pressing ethical issues in the debate over technologically assisted human enhancement. On Transhumanism is a vital primer on the subject, written by a world-renowned expert. In this book, Sorgner presents an overview of the movement’s history, capably summarizing the twelve pillars of tra...

Posthuman Studies Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Posthuman Studies Reader

The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts, central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies. The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington, Karen Barad, Nick Bostrom, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Jaime del Val, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Elaine Graham, Donna Haraway, Ihab Habib Hassan, N. Katherine Hayles, James Hughes, Julian Hux...

The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2024-07-24
  • -
  • Publisher: Policy Press

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enhance human capacities. This book interrogates the promises of transhumanism, arguing that it is deeply entwined with capitalist ideology. In an era of escalating crisis and soaring inequality, it casts doubt on a utopian techno-capitalist narrative of unending progress. In critiquing the transhumanist project, the book offers an alternative ethical framework for the future of life on the planet. As the debates around the advancement of AI and corporate-led digital technologies intensify, this is an important read for academics as well as policy makers .

Philosophy of Posthuman Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Philosophy of Posthuman Art

Aesthetic reflections by various members of the Frankfurt school have dominated the art world for many decades. Sorgner shows that they introduced a paternalistic logic in the field of aesthetics while attempting to overcome paternalism. His art philosophical alternative reveals the option of creating non-totalitarian total works of art. The wide spectrum of posthuman artworks reveals the immense diversity of nontotalitarian total works of art. "A deeply considered survey of the posthuman future of art. Sorgner's philosophy of posthumanism provides a path away from the dominant 20th-century aesthetics that still inform our conception of art today. Through the innovative concept of the 'twist...

Sex and the Posthuman Condition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Sex and the Posthuman Condition

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2014-08-20
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.

Journal of Posthumanism, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 141

Journal of Posthumanism, Vol. 1 No. 1

Posthumanisms beyond Disciplines Sumeyra Buran Utku, Cagdas Dedeoglu, Pelin Kümbet, Yunus Tuncel 1-4 Posthuman Archaeologies, Archaeological Posthumanisms Craig Cipolla, Rachel J. Crellin, Oliver J.T. Harris 5-21 Cyborg or Goddess? Religion and Posthumanism From Secular to Postsecular Elaine Graham 23-31 The Vital Life of Kitchens in Higher Education Institutional Workspaces Material Matterings, Affective Choreographies and Micropolitical Practices Carol A Taylor 33-52 The Body is Infinite/ Body Intelligence Ontohacking Sex-Species and the BI r/evolution in the Algoricene Jaime del Val 53-72 Chinese Kung-fu Films and the Posthuman Daoism Kin Yuen Wong 73-86 Commentaries & Interviews Are We ...

Butterflies Will Burn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Butterflies Will Burn

As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political...

Audiovisual Posthumanism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Audiovisual Posthumanism

This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the field of artistic, literary and aesthetic expression. It also explores the ways social sciences and humanities are affected by posthumanism, and it asks how posthumanism can be an expansion of humanism in the contemporary world, rather than a transcendence of humanism. The chapters’ authors come from different countries, cultural backgrounds and study areas to present a varied perspective on posthumanism.

Diplomatic List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 776

Diplomatic List

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1967
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington