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Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Anticipation Science, 7
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This book is an argument for moving beyond
culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity
as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights
examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they
feel are more appropriate to themselves, by deploring the damage
done via claims about authentic identity. The sole theme of this
book is "becoming beyond identity". We are not fixed human beings
but rather perpetually-dynamic human becomings. As intelligence is
enabled or recognized beyond the merely human, we should welcome
our continuing evolution from homosapiens, sapiens, into many
varieties of intelligences on Earth and the cosmos. This book
builds from tiny ripples into a tsunami of examples from
conventional identity studies, to Confucian human becomings, to
apotemnophilia, to DIY biohacking, to cyborgs, to artilects, to
hiveminds, to intelligence in animals, plants and fungi from the
Holocene through the beginnings of the precarious, climate
change-driven Anthropocene Epoch, with hints far beyond and
throughout the cosmos. From a lifetime of work in future studies,
anticipation science and space studies, the author balances frank
tales of his own experiences and beliefs concerning his uncertain
and fluid identities with those of others who tell their stories.
In addition to material from academic and popular sources, a few
poems further illuminate the scene.
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