I have just finished reading <i><a href="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">The Paradox of the Posthuman: Science Fiction/Techno-Horror Films and Visual Media</a></i> <span class="ptBrand">by Julie Clarke</span><span class="binding">. <br>
<br>The author may not be a genius </span>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.<br>
<br>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.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>