Before humanity : : posthumanism and ancestrality /

Before humanity : : posthumanism and ancestrality / / Stefan Herbrechter.

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Before Humanity takes up the question of the post- in the posthuman from the position of ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us back to our very beginnings. The before in Before Humanity in this context takes on two meanings: 1) what happened before we...

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Superior document:Critical Posthumanisms ; volume 3
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Herbrechter, Stefan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Critical posthumanisms ; v. 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preamble
  • Introduction: Before …
  • Chapter 1 The Other Human: On William Golding's The Inheritors
  • 1 Prehistoric Fiction and Ancestrality
  • 2 The Inheritors: Morality, Ideology, Humanism
  • 3 Paleontology and the Neanderthal
  • 4 Language, Cognition and 'Becoming Human'
  • 5 Animism and Empathy
  • 6 Becoming Human?
  • Interlude 1 Languages and Evolutions
  • Interlude 2 Animism without Humans, or Belief without Belief
  • 1 'Believing' in Animism
  • 2 Alter-Anthropological Animism (or a-a-a)
  • 3 Posthumanist Animism?
  • 4 Techno-Animism and the Re-Enchantment of Science
  • 5 Animism Under Erasure
  • 6 The Animism to Come
  • 7 Seriously, But Perhaps Not Too Seriously?
  • Interlude 3 Ape/Man
  • Chapter 2 About to Forget … the Human: On Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene
  • 1 Herr Geiser Is Losing His Humanity …
  • 2 Catastrophe, Ecocide and Extinction in Man in the Holocene
  • 3 Forgetting and Geiser's Mnemotechnics
  • 4 Verzettelung
  • 5 Pre- and Posthistory, Geology and Ancestrality
  • 6 Before Humanity: Dementia and Ecography
  • Interlude 4 Geology and Deep Time
  • Interlude 5 Lascaux, Geophilia and the 'Cradle of Humanity'
  • 1 Bataille - The Neolithic 'Origin' of Art and Humanity
  • 2 Baudrillard - Lascaux and Simulation
  • 3 Inhumanist Aesthetic?
  • Chapter 3 Unsociable Robots: Empathy in Robot and Frank
  • 1 Empathy Makes 'Us' Human?
  • 2 Robot &amp
  • Frank
  • 3 Empathy and Sociable Robots
  • 4 Posthuman(ist) Empathy?
  • Conclusion: Becoming Inhuman
  • 1 So You Think You're Becoming Human?
  • 2 Post/Anthropology - Before and After Humans
  • 3 Inhumanism, or, Becoming Inhuman
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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