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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=296024116-22012010>I just came across Carey Wolf's writings, and noticed
this book which has a publish date of January 2010. <EM>His current book is What
is Posthumanism?</EM><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial><SPAN class=296024116-22012010><A
href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/What-Is-Posthumanism/Cary-Wolfe/e/9780816666157#TOC">http://search.barnesandnoble.com/What-Is-Posthumanism/Cary-Wolfe/e/9780816666157#TOC</A>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=296024116-22012010>(He addresses issues also discussed within the
framework of transhumanism.)* </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial><SPAN class=296024116-22012010>Wolf's linking posthumanism to second
order cybernetics (cybernetics of cybernetics) caught my eye because I am
currently writing about cybernetics of cybernetics as linked to
transhuman.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=296024116-22012010>Anyone who has thoughts/insights on this link would be
beneficial.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=296024116-22012010>Natasha</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN
class=296024116-22012010><FONT size=2>*[Within the arts, posthumanism has been
argued as being more thought-provoking, insightful, rigorous, sophisticated than
transhumanism. Of course, most of this stems from a strategic
positioning of posthumanism within academia. (Hayles, Ihde, Peters,
etc. who found fault with transhumanism in the Metanexus Global
Spiral magazine, which I was invited to be Guest Editor to respond to their
claims </FONT><A
href="http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10693/Default.aspx"><FONT
size=2>http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10693/Default.aspx</FONT></A><FONT
size=2> (and with a follow-up at the recent conference where More, de
Grey and I were invited to speak about our responsive papers.) </FONT><A
href="http://www.metanexus.net/conference2009/featured_speakers.aspx"><FONT
size=2>http://www.metanexus.net/conference2009/featured_speakers.aspx</FONT></A><FONT
size=2> ]</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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