[ExI] The Paradox of the Posthuman

[Stefano Vaj]

I have just finished reading *The Paradox of the Posthuman: Science
Fiction/Techno-Horror Films and Visual
Media<http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Posthuman-Science-Fiction-Techno-Horror/dp/3639143795/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248645027&sr=8-1>
* by Julie Clarke.

The author may not be a genius and her "critical studies" language may be
annoying to some of us, but the book is entirely dedicated to transhumanist
trends in our culture, and  may play a role in overcoming also in the
English-speaking world a scenario where most transhumanists used to ignore
philosophical posthumanism or to sneer at it as a bunch of Sokalesque
clowns, and the latter takes transhumanism into consideration only
marginally and as a trivial variant of humanist and nineteenth-century
narratives.

In fact, a debate between posthuman-ism and post-humanism where both take
each other more seriously seems inescapable, and it does not seem
coincidential that one of my publishers in presenting a book on
transhumanism and biopolitics chose to describe my own orientation as
"overhumanist, identitarian and postmodernist" even though I abhor
"fashionable nonsense" and oracular, anti-scientific jargon.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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