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Thinking finitude, digital technology, and human obsolescence with Günther Anders -- On Promethean shame -- Preface to the translation of On Promethean shame -- On Promethean shame (by Günther Anders) -- Utopia inverted - Günther Anders in the digital age -- Better than human: Promethean Shame and the (trans)humanist project -- The punishment of Prometheus -- Anaesthetic lives: joyful surrender to painful obsolescence -- The unsalaried masses: working toward a world without us -- Invisible monsters: your smartphone is an atom bomb

This essay traces the complex constellation of ideas that informs Anders's turn to the generalizing expression 'the human' in his postwar work. It mobilizes the properties of radioactive material and digital data, which are both curiously imperceptible to our senses, to discuss Anders's insistence on the universalizing pronoun `we' and assess its significance in the contemporary world. To do so, it aligns Anders's work with current debates about the Anthropocene and critiques of the use of the term 'the human' in postcolonial settings.

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanisms impact across disciplines and areas of study.