Body, Mind, and the Posthuman: A Corollary to Postmodern Thought (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Jamia Milia Islamia | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/WSER8501
Publication: Volume 3 Issue 2
Excerpt | Within posthumanist thought, the knowing subject disengages itself from the dominant humanist narratives to experiment with new radical forms of subjectivity that interrogate the historical arché of evolution and critically scrutinize the possibilities of future advancement by melding biological organisms with technology. These posthuman ‘experiments’ in the domain of techno-science, creating human-machine continuum, alter ways of looking at the human subjectivity in the ongoing process of becoming, and culminate in actualizing the displacement of the knowing subject itself as the measure of all things. Such new models of bio-technological embodiment provide dynamic options for a non-unitary transformative subjectivity that is based on the relational ontology of non-human others. The displaced subject now attempts to reshape the existing practices of humanism by pitting them against this concept of posthumanism, i.e., its heteronomy and multidimensional relationality. Dynamic notion of an inclusive world with humanistic practices along with posthuman relationlity is the fresh space of possibilities that this knowing subject dares to explore.
Keywords | Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Human Subjectivity, Dispositioned Subject, Becoming, Human-Machine Continuum, Technology, Embodiment
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizanmoquim@gmail.com)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha and Faizan Moquim. “Body, Mind, and the Posthuman: A Corollary to Postmodern Thought (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2020, pp. v-vii, https://doi.org/10.71106/WSER8501.