Being Posthuman - 9781350151086

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Being PosthumanOntologies of the Future\nAuthor(s): Zahi Zalloua\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350151086, 978-1350151086\nSynopsis\nPosthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucaults the death of Man. Secondly, it refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, along with a different understanding of human exceptionalism. \n\nIn Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future, Zahi Zalloua interrogates this future and shows that post- does not necessarily mean after or that what comes after is more advanced than what has gone before. He pursues this line of inquiry across four distinct, yet interrelated, figures: cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized and excluded others. These figures disrupt the narrative of the human and its singularity and by reading them together, Zalloua determines that.