On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I think we have to assume litcritsprache has independently coined the term<br>> "posthumanism" as another step beyond Althusserian "antihumanism," so it has<br>
> no obvious relevance to the transhuman/ posthuman spectrum discussed in<br>> discourses such as this list.<br><br>Mmhhh. It is undeniable that "posthumanists" in this context refers more to post-humanism than to posthuman-ism. <br>
<br>Yet some obvious convergences do exist, and should perhaps be explored much more in depth than it is usually the case, especially amongst English-mother tongue transhumanists who may be deterred to do so by the attitude of people like Dale Carrico.<br>
<br>See, for instance:<br>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Viroid-Life-Perspectives-Nietzsche-Transhuman/dp/0415154359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242854223&sr=8-1">Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition</a> <span class="ptBrand">by Ansell Pearson</span><br>
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Posthumanism-Readers-Cultural-Criticism-Badmington/dp/0333765389/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242854179&sr=1-1">Posthumanism (Readers in Cultural Criticism)</a> <span class="ptBrand">by Neil Badmington</span><span class="binding"><br>
- <a href="http://www.uomo-libero.com/images/file/heidegger_faye.html">Pour en finir avec le nihilisme. Heidegger et la question de la technique</a>, by Guillaume Faye<br>- </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Fables-Jean-Francois-Lyotard/dp/0816625557/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242854427&sr=8-9">Postmodern Fables</a> <span class="ptBrand">by Jean-Francois Lyotard and Georges Van Den Abbeele</span><br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>