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Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Paradigms and Transformations -- 1 Humanism -- 2 The Self and Subjectivity: Why the Enlightenment Is Relevant for Posthumanism -- 3 Transhumanism -- 4 The Non-Human, Systems, and New Materialism -- 5 The Anthropocene -- 6 The Ahuman -- 7 Posthumanism: Critical, Speculative, Biomorphic -- 8 Rising Negentropy, Evolutionary Reboots, and Gaia as Attractor: Toward a Map of Contemporaneous Posthumanist Positions -- Part Two: Ethics -- 9 Environmentalisms and Posthumanisms -- 10 Nonhuman Politics and Its Practices -- 11 Posthuman Feminist Ethics: Unveiling Ontological Radical Healing -- 12 Race, Technology, and Posthumanism -- 13 The Unity of Humanity -- 14 Toward Posthuman Human Rights? -- 15 Disability, Neo-Materialism, and the Biopolitics of the Project of Western Man: Toward a Posthumanist Disability Theory -- 16 Therapy, Enhancement, and the Posthuman -- Part Three: Technology -- 17 What Can We Learn from Eugenics? -- 18 The Medicalization of the Posthuman Transformation Trajectory -- 19 Life Extension and the Pursuit of Immortality -- 20 Sport, Technoscience, and Posthumanist Athletics -- 21 Data and Information in the Posthuman Sensorium -- 22 Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Posthumanism as Robophilosophy -- 23 Posthumanist Learning and Education -- Part Four: Aesthetics -- 24 What Aesthetics Tells Us about Posthumans -- 25 Literature's Humanist Posthumanism -- 26 Posthuman Temporalities in Science and Bioart -- 27 Music -- 28 Posthumanism in Film and Television -- 29 Digital Comics and Unstable Interfaces -- 30 Anime's Situated Posthumanism: Representation, Mediality, Performance -- 31 Ready Player Two: The Digital Avatar as Extension of Self -- 32 Precarious Lives in the Age of Biocapitalism -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Posthuman Horizons and Realities: Introduction -- Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg -- The limits of knowledge and key conflicts -- The articles in this volume -- Exit? -- References -- Notes on contributors -- part I -- Tech nological scenarios -- 1 Cyborging the Posthuman: Participatory Evolution -- Chris Hables Gray -- Homo sapiens cyborg -- Shockwave Riders -- Cyborg Citizenship -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 2 How Close Are We to Being Able to Achieve the Transhumanist Vision? -- Maxwell J. Mehlman -- References -- 3 Genetics - It Just Got Personal -- Lone Frank -- Genes of behavior back in fashion -- Embracing complexity -- From homogeneity to diversity -- Toward a culture of biology -- References -- 4 The Medicine of the Future - Live Long and Prosper? -- Søren Holm -- What can we learn from past predictions? -- Predicting the future of medicine - an attempt -- Which tech nologies? -- What conditions? -- What functions will we enhance and how? -- How fast will the developments be and how far will they extend? -- Social inequality and 'trickle down' effects -- References -- part II -- Ethical dilemmas -- 5 Post-What? (And Why Does It Matter?) -- Sarah Chan and Joh n Harris -- We are all post-simians - but we did not set out to be! -- Human to posthuman: crossing the species boundary -- Enhancement and (post)-human evolution -- What's so special about being human? -- Creating posthumans -- Posthuman values, enhancement and identity -- Are posthuman values 'ours'? Who are 'we' anyway? -- Posthuman children -- Our moral species -- References -- 6 Treating Symptoms Rather Than Causes? On "Enhancement" and Social Oppression -- Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- A huge, albeit unproblematic, assumption -- Two kinds of improvement.