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Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a
major revival but has never been translated into English.
Prometheanism mobilises Anders's pragmatic thought and current
trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power
that are configuring themselves around our increasingly "smart"
machines. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders's
philosophy of technology with an annotated translation of his
visionary essay 'On Promethean Shame', part of The Obsolescence of
Human Beings 1 published in 1956.The essay analyses feelings of
curtailment, obsolescence and solitude that become manifest whilst
we interact with machines. When technological solutions begin to
make humans look embarrassingly limited and flawed, new emotional
vulnerabilities are exposed. These need to be thought, because our
wavering confidence leaves us unprotected in an ever more
(un)transparent, connected yet fractured world.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference
work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism,
humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional
demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys
and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm
emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the
humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on
posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an
on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights
the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays
engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the
environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and
disability studies. The book also traces the historical
representations and understanding of posthumanism across time.
Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as
autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as
climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to
name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism's impact across
disciplines and areas of study.
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday
life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it
is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our
secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, 'I'
believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, 'it'
believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come
from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and
repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique
of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic
crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings
together some of the most important contemporary voices in
philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory
together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and
broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.
Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a
major revival but has never been translated into English.
Prometheanism mobilises Anders's pragmatic thought and current
trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power
that are configuring themselves around our increasingly "smart"
machines. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders's
philosophy of technology with an annotated translation of his
visionary essay 'On Promethean Shame', part of The Obsolescence of
Human Beings 1 published in 1956.The essay analyses feelings of
curtailment, obsolescence and solitude that become manifest whilst
we interact with machines. When technological solutions begin to
make humans look embarrassingly limited and flawed, new emotional
vulnerabilities are exposed. These need to be thought, because our
wavering confidence leaves us unprotected in an ever more
(un)transparent, connected yet fractured world.
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday
life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it
is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our
secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, 'I'
believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, 'it'
believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come
from, and does it have a future? Why do we talk about debt and
repayment in overtly moral terms? How should a theological critique
of capitalism proceed today? With the effects of the 2008 economic
crises continuing to be felt across the world, this volume brings
together some of the most important contemporary voices in
philosophy, literature, theology, and critical and cultural theory
together in one volume to assert the need to interrogate and
broaden the terms of the theological critique of capitalism.
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