Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System

Bukatman, Scott

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-05194-3_12

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“…Although studies of cyberpunk and other science fiction for adults have treated narrative construction and style as key components of a posthuman ethos (e.g., Bukatman, 1991;Hayles, 1999), discussions of texts for younger readers have concentrated on such first-order concerns as character development, theme, and ideology. Ostry (2004) argues that the pharmacologically or technologically enhanced posthuman body becomes a ''metaphor for adolescence'' that helps the young reader confront questions of identity formation (p. 223).…”

Section: Posthumanist Writing For Young Readersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clockwork: Philip Pullman’s Posthuman Fairy Tale

Gooding

2011

Child Lit Educ

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This article examines the connections between posthumanism and narrative form in Philip Pullman's Clockwork. Beginning with an account of Pullman's materialism, it argues that the novel represents consciousness and agency as emergent properties of matter, a position that manifests itself first in the tale's figurative language and later in the cybernetic inventions of Dr. Kalmenius. As Pullman effaces the boundaries between animate and inanimate, human and nonhuman, he generates uncanny effects that are best understood in terms of the posthuman condition and narrative modes that reject liberal humanist models of subjectivity. Clockwork's uncanny elements, metafictive qualities, and distribution of narrative voice across multiple perspectives thus represent narrative accommodations demanded by the tale's rejection of the Cartesian mind/body dualism that grounds the liberal humanist subject. Clockwork's acceptance of the posthuman condition is, however, incomplete and anxiety-laden, and the fairy-tale transformation of Prince Florian at the end of the novel represents a partial recuperation of liberal humanist morality.

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Section: Posthumanist Writing For Young Readersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clockwork: Philip Pullman’s Posthuman Fairy Tale

Gooding

2011

Child Lit Educ

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“…Dennoch hat das Alien als das völlig Andere und Fremde auch etwas mit der gebrochenen Manifestierung des Selbst, die sich auch in Shakespeares Stücken findet, zu tun. 11 Timon, zuerst die Quintessenz der Athener Zivilisation (worauf der Titel Timon of Athens schon verweist), 12 wird deren schärfster Gegner. Schlimmer noch, denn Feindschaft würde immer noch Interaktion bedeuten, kappt er seine Verbindung zur Gesellschaft völlig und bewegt sich von nun an in einem Raum, der nicht nur geographisch weit von ihr entfernt ist, sondern ihr auch völlig unverständlich erscheint.…”

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“…Der Erzähler Gower leitet diese neue Abenteuer mit einer zynischen Bemerkung über Selbstbewusstsein ein; "where each man / Thinks all is writ he speken can, / And to remember what he does / Build his statue to make him glorious" (II.Chorus. [11][12][13][14]. Pericles zeigt sich nur scheinbar bescheiden, wenn er sich selbst "A man, whom both the waters and the wind / In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball / For them to play upon" (II.1.58-60) nennt.…”

Section: Pericles Prince Of Tyre -Begegnungen Mit Dem Alienunclassified

Shakespeares gleichzeitige Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des (früh)modernen Menschen in 'Timon of Athens' und 'Pericles'

Emig¹

2016

Shakespeare Im Spiegelkabinett

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Literaturwissenschaftlern sind Shakespeares späte Dramen Timon of Athens (ca. 1605-08) und Pericles (ca. 1607-08) häufig etwas peinlich. Sie betonen, dass die Stücke wahrscheinlich mehrere Autoren haben, dass sie entweder unfertig sind (wie Timon of Athens) oder eher zusammengetragene Fragmente aus Theaterproben darstellen (bei Pericles) -und damit keinesfalls ordentlich verfasste und autorisierte Texte. 2 Als solche verkörpern sie aber eher die Regel als die Ausnahme bei 1 Dieser Aufsatz erschien zuerst in englischer Sprache als "Renaissance Self-Unfashioning: Shakespeare's Late Plays as Exercises in Unravelling the Human", in: Posthumanist Shakespeares, Hrsg. Stefan Herbrechter und Ivan Callus, Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan, 2012), S. 113-159. 2 F.D. Hoenigers Vorwort zur Arden-Ausgabe von Pericles nennt das Stück "far from happy and clear", "a most uneven and puzzling text" und gibt zu dass, "No one would include Pericles among Shakespeare's masterpieces"; William Shakespeare, Pericles, hrsg. F.D.

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“…No longer seen as a repository of the soul, the human body was now viewed as the “interface between mind and experience … and is narrated as a site of exploration and transfiguration, through which the interface with an electronically based postmodern experience is inscribed” (Buktaman 2000, 98). In the works of cultural posthumanists, the boundaries between animals, humans, and machines are blurred; reproduction is nonbiological; and “bodies are determined and operated by systems whose reproduction is … asexual: capitalism, culture, professions, and institutions, and in fact sexuality itself” (Halberstam and Livingstone, 17).…”

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Transhumanism as a Secularist Faith

Tirosh‐Samuelson

2012

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In the second half of the twentieth century, humanism— namely, the worldview that underpinned Western thought for several centuries—has been severely critiqued by philosophers who highlighted its theoretical and ethical limitations. Inspired by the emergence of cybernetics and new technologies such as robotics, prosthetics, communications, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, there has been a desire to articulate a new worldview that will fit the posthuman condition. Posthumanism is a description of a new form of human existence in which the boundaries between humans and nature and humans and machines are blurred, as well as a prescription for an ideal situation in which the limitations of human biology are transcended, replaced by machines. The transition from the human condition to the posthuman condition will be facilitated by transhumanism, the project of human enhancement that will ultimately yield the transformation of the human species from the human to the posthuman. As an intellectual movement, transhumanism is still very small, but transhumanist ideas exert deep and broad influence on contemporary culture and society. This essay highlights the religious dimension of transhumanism and argues that it should be seen as a secularist faith: transhumanism secularizes traditional religious themes, concerns, and goals, while endowing technology with religious significance. Science‐Religion Studies is the most appropriate context to explore the cultural significance of transhumanism.

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Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System

Cited by 5 publications

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Clockwork: Philip Pullman’s Posthuman Fairy Tale

Clockwork: Philip Pullman’s Posthuman Fairy Tale

Shakespeares gleichzeitige Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des (früh)modernen Menschen in 'Timon of Athens' und 'Pericles'

Transhumanism as a Secularist Faith

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