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POSTHUMANS

THE POSTHUMAN

CRASH COURSE​

CRASH COURSE "THE POSTHUMAN"

This online course on the Philosophies of the Posthuman is conceived for anyone who is interested in the topic of the posthuman.
​In 6 lessons and 3 concepts, 
Professor Ferrando explains the main topics related to the posthuman turn. 

DISTRIBUTION

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​All the contents of this Course are published under a Creative Common License (CC  BY SA). 
​
​The videos of the lectures are openly available on Youtube. ​
The full Course, including quizzes, tests and transcripts, are freely available on this page ​and on OpenLearn, by The Open University. ​

​OUTLINE

This is the outline of the Course: 

6 Lessons
Lesson 1: What does "POSTHUMAN" mean"?
Lesson 2: What is TRANSHUMANISM?
Lesson 3: What is POSTHUMANISM? 
Lesson 4: What does POST-HUMANISM mean? 
Lesson 5: What does POST-ANTHROPOCENTRISM mean?
Lesson 6: What does POST-DUALISM mean?
​
3 Concepts

Concept 1: Are we already POSTHUMAN?
Concept 2: What is the MAIN DIFFERENCE bewteen POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?
Concept 3: What are the ROOTS of POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?

LESSONS

​Lesson 1:
​What does "POSTHUMAN" mean"?
Access the transcript, here:
Transcript, Lesson 1
​
​Lesson 2:

​What is TRANSHUMANISM?
Transcript, Lesson 2
​
​Lesson 3:

​What is POSTHUMANISM?
Transcript, Lesson 3
​
​Lesson 4:

​What does POST-HUMANISM mean?
Transcript, Lesson 4

​Lesson 5:
​What does POST-ANTHROPOCENTRISM mean?
Transcript, Lesson 5
​
​Lesson 6:

​What does POST-DUALISM mean?
Transcript, Lesson 6


​CONCEPTS

​Concept 1:
​Are we already POSTHUMAN?
Transcript, Concept 1
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​
Concept 2:
What is the MAIN DIFFERENCE bewteen POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?
Transcript, Concept 2

​Concept 3:
​What are the PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS of POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?
​
Transcript, Concept 3


​AUTHORS

Author: Martin Heidegger
Text:  "The Question Concerning Technology" [1949] (1954)

​
Part 1
​
What is TECHNOLOGY?
Part 2
What is MODERN TECHNOLOGY?


​resources

Please, note that these articles, published under a Creative Commons license, can be downloaded and shared freely:
​1. 

Ferrrando, F. "Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations"
In: Existenz. Published by The Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2014, pp. 26-32.
2.
​Ferrrando, F. "The Body"
In: Post- and Transhumanism: An Introduction Edited by Ranisch, R. & Sorgner, S. L. Published by Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 213-226.

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity, 2013.
- Ferrando, Francesca. Philosophical posthumanism. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Haraway, Donna. ‘A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s’. The Haraway Reader, Psychology Press, 2004, pp. 7–46.
 —. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
- Herbrechter, Stefan, Ivan Callus and Rossini Manuela, eds.  European Posthumanism. Routledge, 2016.
- Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
 —. Unthought: The Power of The Cognitive Nonconscious. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Nayar, Pramod K. Posthumanism. Bloomsbury Publishing,  2014.
- Sorgner, Stefan. On Transhumanism. The Most Dangerous Idea in the World?! Pennsylvania State UP, 2020.
- Wolfe, C. What is Posthumanism? University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Test And quizzes

LESSONS
This section wss curated by Matigan King and Aria Smith; reviewed by Francesca Ferrando.
​Lesson 1:
​What does "POSTHUMAN" mean"?
​Lesson 2:
​What is TRANSHUMANISM?
​Lesson 3:
​What is POSTHUMANISM?
​Lesson 4:
​What does POST-HUMANISM mean?
​Lesson 5:
​What does POST-ANTHROPOCENTRISM mean?
​Lesson 6:
​What does POST-DUALISM mean?
CONCEPTS
​Concept 1:
​Are we already POSTHUMAN?
​Concept 2:
What is the MAIN DIFFERENCE bewteen POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?
​Concept 3:
​What are the PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS of POSTHUMANISM and TRANSHUMANISM?
​​
​Final Test
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