The dark posthuman : : dehumanization, technology, and the Atlantic world / / Stephanie Polsky.
The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of...
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