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
The GPN is proud to support the Creative Commons project.
​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?
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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"?
​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​

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

In these recommended videos, Professor Ferrando explains texts that are key to the genealogy of the posthuman.

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

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?
​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