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Antihumanism

Posted 06 May 2009 | By | Categories: Theory | No Comments

Today N. Katherine Hayles gave a talk as part of a speaker series on Science Fiction at the University of California, Riverside.  It was entitled “Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End and the Macropolitics of Global Spatialization.” She set up a productive binary between the conservative transhumanist tendencies in theory and art and more progressive posthumanist tendencies. As she argued, transhumanism [...]