(Un)Learning to Be Human?

Acknowledgements

Preface: Returning to Critical Posthumanism

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Introduction: Critical Posthumanism – Ten Years On

1 Poststructuralism and the End(s) of Humanism

1 Post-, Again

2 Post-structural-ism

3 Poststructuralism and Posthumanism

2 Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography

1 Post-human-ism

2 The Death of the Subject and Autobiography

3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject

4 Posthumanism and Autobiography

5 Posthuman(ist) Life Writing

6 Post-script: De-Facebook

3 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman

1 Rhetoric and Philosophical Anthropology

2 The Rhetoric of the Posthuman – Disfigurations

3 Postanthropocentric Rhetoric

4 ps: A Note on Posthumanist Rhetoric and New Media

4 (Un)ravelling

1 Storying, or, Why Critical Posthumanism, Still

2 Unlearning, or the Linguistic Return

3 Reworlding, or Carrying the Other

5 Posthumanist Education?

1 The Posthumanisation of the Education System

2 Posthumanism and Pedagogy

3 Humanism as a Technology of Domestication

4 Critical posthumanist education

5 Conclusion

6 (Un)learning to Be Human

1 Posthumanism and Education

2 Un-learning

3 Addressing the Posthumanist Subject

4 Animals in School – Zoomimesis and Rewilding

7 Posthumanism ‘without’ Technology, or How the Media Made Us Post/Human: From Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality

1 Posthumanism as Discourse

2 Critical Posthumanism, or Posthumanism ‘without’ Technology

3 Posthumanism and the Media, or from Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality

4 Postscript: Posthumanism and the Future of the Humanities

8 Postfiguration, or, the Desire of the Posthuman

1 Posthumanism: Discourse and Figure

2 Disfiguration, or, What Does Mimesis Hide?

3 From Anthropomimesis to Zoomimesis

4 After Mimesis: Postfiguration?

5 Examples

 5.1 Camilla Adami – Primati/Jacques Derrida – Tête-à-tête

 5.2 Tim Flach – More than Human

 5.3 The “Monkey Selfie”

 5.4 Daniel Lee – Manimals (1993)

9 Perfectibilities, or, How (Not) to Improve Humans

1 Positionings

2 Perfectibilities

3 Future Perfect: Constructions of the (Human) Future

4 Room for Improvement, or There Is Always Some

5 Desire of the Posthuman, or Yearning for Perfection

6 Could Do Better: Humanism without Humans or Humans without Humanism

10 Making Humans Better: Posthumanism ‘beyond’ Violence

1 What Is Wrong with Humanism? or, We Have to Get Better

2 Critical Posthumanism between Post- and Trans-, or, Better Not…

3 There’s Something Wrong with Perfectibility, or: Get Better Soon!

4 Posthumanistic Politics beyond Good and Evil, or, Let’s Do the Correction Now!

5 Unlearning Humanism and the Question of Justice, or, Better Does Not Necessarily Mean Good

6 And Finally: Best Wishes… from the Terminator

Conclusion: Dehumanisation, or, Humanism without Humans

1 Humans without, Not: Without Humans

2 Dehumanisation

3 Humanism without Humans, Humans without Humanism, Humanism without Humanism

Bibliography

Index