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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Academic Tribe -- Family Tribe -- World Tribe -- Preface: The Posthuman as Exuberant Excess -- In Excess of Humanism -- In Excess of Anthropocentrism -- Bibliographic Note -- Introduction: From Human to Posthuman -- Navigational Tool: A Glossary of Questions -- Part 1: What Is Philosophical Posthumanism? -- Chapter 1: Premises -- Chapter 2: From Postmodern to Posthuman -- Chapter 3: Posthumanism and Its Others -- Chapter 4: The Birth of Transhumanism -- Chapter 5: Contemporary Transhumanism(s) -- Chapter 6: The Roots of Transhumanism -- Chapter 7: Transhumanism and Techno-Enchantment -- Chapter 8: Posthumanist Technologies as Ways of Revealing -- Chapter 9: Antihumanism and the Übermensch -- Chapter 10: Philosophical Posthumanism -- Interlude 1 -- Part 2: Of Which "Human" Is the Posthuman a "Post"? -- Chapter 11: The Power of the Hyphen -- Chapter 12: Humanizing -- Chapter 13: The Anthropological Machine -- Chapter 14: Almost, Human -- Chapter 15: Technologies of the Self as Posthumanist (Re)Sources -- Chapter 16: The Epiphany of Becoming Human -- Chapter 17: Where Does the Word "Human" Come From? -- Chapter 18: Mammals or Homo sapiens? -- Interlude 2 -- Part 3: Have Humans Always Been Posthuman? -- Chapter 19: Post-Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 20: Posthuman Life -- a. Bios and Zoē -- b. Animate/Inanimate -- Chapter 21: Artificial Life -- Chapter 22: Evolving Species -- Chapter 23: Posthumanities -- Chapter 24: Posthuman Bioethics -- Chapter 25: Human Enhancement -- Chapter 26: Cognitive Autopoiesis -- Chapter 27: Posthumanist Perspectivism -- Chapter 28: From New Materialisms to Object-Oriented Ontology -- Chapter 29: Philosophical Posthumanist Ontology -- Chapter 30: The Multiverse -- a. The Multiverse in Science -- Level I: Regions Beyond Cosmic Horizon.

8 Heterogeneous Collectivity and the Capacity to Act: Conceptualising Nonhumans in Political Space9 Indigeneity, Posthumanism and Nomad Thought: Transforming Colonial Ecologies; 10 Kinopolitics: Borders in Motion; 11 Out of Control: From Political Economy to Political Ecology; 12 Economic Systems and the Problematic Character of Price; 13 A Modification in the Subject of Right: Deleuze, Jurisprudence and the Diagram of Bees in Roman Law; 14 Lines of Shite: Microbial-Mineral Chatter in the Anthropocene; Index; Aboutthe Contributors

The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical re-appraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering 21st century thought. This interdisciplinary collection of state-of-the-art essays offers innovative and thought-provoking insights concerning contemporary philosophical and cultural reflection on the nature-culture interaction. Starting from the assumption that the binary opposition between the two terms has been replaced by a continuum of the two, the volume explores both the terms of this new interaction, and its implications. Technology occupies a central place in the shift towards a nature-cultural continuum, but it is not the only factor. The consequences of economic globalization, notably the global spread of digital mediation, also account for this change of perspective. Last but not least the climate change issue and a renewed urgency around the state of the environmental crisis also contribute to bring the 'natural' much closer to home. Digital mediation has by now become a standard way to live and interact. The electronic frontier has altered dramatically the practice of education and research, especially in the Humanities and social sciences, with direct consequences for the institutional practice and the methodology of these disciplinary fields. This book aims to explore the implications of these complex shifts for the practice of critical thinking.