News!
We are delighted to announce the founding of a new philosophical society devoted to posthuman studies: the World Society of Posthuman Studies (abbreviated as: WPS, World Posthuman Society). We are currently focused on organizing international meetings every five years, in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy. We anticipate publishing the proceedings of the WPS in an online peer-reviewed edition: “Infinity: The Posthuman in Philosophical Dimensions”. Clearly, the concerns of posthumanism belong to an international setting, as the upcoming XXVl World Congress at Peking University in Beijing has shown us. Interest in posthumanism is surging. All three of the Round Table Discussion Panels we proposed were gratefully approved.
Glocalization will be one of our themes, and we will follow the WCP guideline that at least three panelists represent different countries at our meetings. The concept of the posthuman is clearly bound up with the concept of evolution, and while there may have been a time when rigorously developed scientific concepts of evolution were too narrow to accommodate the many pathways we see to the posthuman, that is no longer the case. It is well recognized in settled science today that we are evolving in many different dimensions. One of our goals will be to encourage the posthumanist community worldwide to express the multiple perspectives on the pathways of the posthuman in flexible and rigorous terms.
We are delighted to announce the founding of a new philosophical society devoted to posthuman studies: the World Society of Posthuman Studies (abbreviated as: WPS, World Posthuman Society). We are currently focused on organizing international meetings every five years, in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy. We anticipate publishing the proceedings of the WPS in an online peer-reviewed edition: “Infinity: The Posthuman in Philosophical Dimensions”. Clearly, the concerns of posthumanism belong to an international setting, as the upcoming XXVl World Congress at Peking University in Beijing has shown us. Interest in posthumanism is surging. All three of the Round Table Discussion Panels we proposed were gratefully approved.
Glocalization will be one of our themes, and we will follow the WCP guideline that at least three panelists represent different countries at our meetings. The concept of the posthuman is clearly bound up with the concept of evolution, and while there may have been a time when rigorously developed scientific concepts of evolution were too narrow to accommodate the many pathways we see to the posthuman, that is no longer the case. It is well recognized in settled science today that we are evolving in many different dimensions. One of our goals will be to encourage the posthumanist community worldwide to express the multiple perspectives on the pathways of the posthuman in flexible and rigorous terms.
Boards
FOUNDERS
Francesca Ferrando, Ph.D., Thomas Steinbuch, Ph.D, Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D
ACADEMIC BOARD
Katherine Hayles,
Keith Ansell-Pearson,
Christine Daigle,
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner,
Jaime Del Val.
Francesca Ferrando, Ph.D., Thomas Steinbuch, Ph.D, Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D
ACADEMIC BOARD
Katherine Hayles,
Keith Ansell-Pearson,
Christine Daigle,
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner,
Jaime Del Val.
Events
Panel "Religion, Spirituality and the Philosophies of Post- and Trans-humanism", WPS, Beijing 2018
Spotlights
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University
August 17th 2018, 11 am - China time
(August 16th 11 pm - US time)
Official Announcement of the World Posthuman Society
introducing the Workshop “Global Genealogies of the Posthuman”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Francesca Ferrando, Thomas Steinbuch, Yunus Tuncel, Luciano Zubillaga, Jaime del Val.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 17th 2018
Workshop “Global Genealogies of the Posthuman”, Peking University, Beijing.
Facilitators: Francesca Ferrando, Thomas Steinbuch, Jaime del Val.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 14th 2018
Panel “Posthuman Aesthetics”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Michael Steinmann, Luciano Zubillaga, Thomas Steinbuch, Jaime del Val, Marc Johnson.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 16th 2018
Panel “Religion, Spirituality and the Philosophies of Post- and Trans-humanism”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Debika Saha, James McBride, Amyc Chan, Purushottama Bilimoria.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University
August 17th 2018, 11 am - China time
(August 16th 11 pm - US time)
Official Announcement of the World Posthuman Society
introducing the Workshop “Global Genealogies of the Posthuman”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Francesca Ferrando, Thomas Steinbuch, Yunus Tuncel, Luciano Zubillaga, Jaime del Val.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 17th 2018
Workshop “Global Genealogies of the Posthuman”, Peking University, Beijing.
Facilitators: Francesca Ferrando, Thomas Steinbuch, Jaime del Val.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 14th 2018
Panel “Posthuman Aesthetics”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Michael Steinmann, Luciano Zubillaga, Thomas Steinbuch, Jaime del Val, Marc Johnson.
CHINA - XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, August 16th 2018
Panel “Religion, Spirituality and the Philosophies of Post- and Trans-humanism”, Peking University, Beijing.
Speakers: Debika Saha, James McBride, Amyc Chan, Purushottama Bilimoria.
Workshop "Genealogies of the Posthuman" WPS, Beijing 2018
