2. POSTHUMANISM IS A MOVEMENT ON THE BORDER BETWEEN SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC
DISCOURSE AND FICTION: BASED ON THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF
COMMUNICATION, AS WELL AS THE LEGACY OF CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA, IT OFFERS A
VISION OF A TRANSITION FROM HUMAN TO THE SO CALLED POSTHUMAN. THE
POSTHUMAN IS SEEN AS AN OFFSPRING OF TECHNOCULTURE, THE SYNTHESIS OF
LIVING AND ARTIFICIAL, A LOOSELY EVOLVING ENTITY WITHOUT FIXED ONTOLOGICAL
BOUNDARIES. THE EXISTENCE OF THE POSTHUMAN LIES BEYOND DUALISTIC
CATEGORIZATION, HAS A PROCESSUAL CHARACTER AND REFUSES ANY ESSENTIALIST
APPROACH.
CORPOREALITY – IDENTITY – TECHNOLOGY - INFORMATION
IT IS AN ATTRACTIVE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES AND A SEXY
POSTMODERN SLOGAN, BUT ALSO A SYMBOL OF A TRANSGRESSION OF ACTUAL
PREDESTINATING CATEGORIES SUCH AS RACE, GENDER OR SOCIAL STATUS. MORE
THAN ANYTHING ELSE, POSTHUMAN IS PRIMARILY A METAPHOR, ADOPTED BY A
VARIETY OF NARRATIVES FOCUSED ON THE POTENTIAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGICALLY
EXTENDED LIFE: FROM SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS, THROUGH
SCIENCE-FICTION, UP TO ITS NUMEROUS APPROPRIATIONS BY THE ART WORLD. FROM
THIS PERSPECTIVE, POSTHUMANISM CAN BE APPROACHED AS A LIMINAL
TRANSDISCIPLINARY FIELD, LOCATED ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART.
5. 1940th
1960th
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2000
2010
1950th
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
SHANNONS DISEMBODIED INFORMATION
BODY AS INFORMATION CIRQUIT
CYBERNETICS
INFORMATION SCIENCE
MACY CONFERENCIES
TURING TEST
INFORMATION REVOLUTION
AI
CELLULAR AUTOMATON
CYBORG
HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
BIOPUNK
BIOTECH REVOLUTION
DIGITAL REVOLUTION
CYBERPUNK
BIOHACKING
HACKERPSPACES
HACKERS
SCI-FI
TRANSGENICS
DTC GENOMICS
QUANTIFIED SELF
SYSTEM THEORY
VR
PC
COMPUTER - MAN OF THE YEAR 1982
NBIC
INFORMATION SOCIETY
SMARTPHONES
WWW
CYBERCULTURE
SOCIAL NETWORKING
NANOTECHNOLOGY
DNA COMPUTING
DIGITAL SUPERHIGHWAY
WEB 2.0
DIYBIO
WEARABLES
GENE THERAPY
IN VITRO FERTILIZATION ADVANCED PROSTHETIC
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ARDUINO
OPEN SOURCE
6. 1940th
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2010
POSTMODERNISM
SECOND WAVE FEMINISM
LGBTI
PEACE MOVEMENT
CRITICAL RACE THEORY
CYBERFEMINISM
HIPPIES
ANIMAL STUDIES
GREEN MOVEMENT
CYBORG MANIFESTO
RHIZOMATIC PHILOSPHY
ANT
DECONSTRUCTION
CRITICAL THEORY
ENDANGERED EARTH – PLANET OF THE YEAR 1988
POST-STRUCTURALISM
ANTI-RACISM
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SEXUAL REVOLUTION POST-INDUSTRIALISM
QUEER THEORY
LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES
ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
TECHNOBIOPOWER
PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS
CITIZEN SCIENCE
TRANSHUMANISM
MASS COLABORATION
SHARING
OPENESS
PEER PRODUCTION
PROSUMERDELEUZIAN BECOMING
DIWO
7. POSTHUMAN IS AN ATTRACTIVE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES AND A SEXY POSTMODERN SLOGAN,
BUT ALSO A SYMBOL OF A TRANSGRESSION OF ACTUAL PREDESTINATING CATEGORIES
SUCH AS RACE, GENDER OR SOCIAL STATUS...
PERFORMATIVE SELF-CREATION, OPENESS,
FLUID IDENTITIES, PLURALITY, UNCERTAINTY,
VAGUENESS, HYBRIDITY, MONSTROZITY
…HOWEVER, POSTHUMAN IS PRIMARILY A CRITICAL METAPHOR
ADOPTED BY A VARIETY OF NARRATIVES FOCUSED ON THE POTENTIAL
ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGICALLY EXTENDED LIFE…
…POSTHUMANISM CAN BE APPROACHED AS A LIMINAL
TRANSDISCIPLINARY FIELD, LOCATED ON THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART…
…POSTHUMANISM DEALS WITH TOPICS OF IDENTITY, TECHNOLOGY, POWER &
CONTROL..