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  1. The posthuman.Rosi Braidotti - 2013 - Malden, MA, USA: Polity Press.
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this (...)
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  • Liquid Modernity.Zygmunt Bauman - 2000 - Polity Press ; Blackwell.
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  • (1 other version)Humanism.Tony Davies - 2008 - New York: Routledge.
    Humanism offers students a clear and lucid introductory guide to the complexities of Humanism, one of the most contentious and divisive of artistic or literary concepts. Showing how the concept has evolved since the Renaissance period, Davies discusses humanism in the context of the rise of Fascism, the onset of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath. Humanism provides basic definitions and concepts, a critique of the religion of humanity, and necessary background on religious, sexual and political themes of (...)
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  • Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning.Karen Barad - 2007 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
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  • Posthumanism.Neil Badmington (ed.) - 2000 - New York: Palgrave.
    What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This book offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics—postcolonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction. Posthumanism addresses these and other (...)
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  • (1 other version)A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia.Gilles Deleuze - 1987 - London: Athlone Press. Edited by Félix Guattari.
    Suggests an open system of psychological exploration to cut through accepted norms of morality, language, and politics.
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  • Changing Places?: Flexibility, Lifelong Learning, and a Learning Society.Richard Edwards - 1997 - Psychology Press.
    This book looks at how the notion of the learning society has developed over the years, and how, and why, flexibility has become a more central concept in much policy and academic debate.
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  • Posthumanist (Com) Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass.”.Neil Badmington - 2000 - In Posthumanism. New York: Palgrave. pp. 85--97.
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  • Humanity 2.0: what it means to be human past, present and future.Steve Fuller - 2011 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner.
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  • Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti.Rosi Braidotti - 2011 - Columbia University Press.
    Transposing differences -- Meta(l)morphoses: women, aliens, and machines -- Animals and other anomalies -- The cosmic buzz of insects -- Matter-realist feminism -- Intensive genre and the demise of gender -- Postsecular paradoxes -- Against methodological nationalism -- Nomadic European citizenship -- Powers of affirmation -- Sustainable ethics and the body in pain -- Forensic futures -- A secular prayer.
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