The Posthuman
9 best books like The Posthuman (Rosi Braidotti): Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Electra, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Stalin Ate My Homework, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, When Species Meet, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415389550 |
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 1854597566 |
While I loved the dialogue, the pacing of this Hamlet and Antigone caper was a bit rushed. The chorus was particularly effective, the atmosphere resonates with revenge. Electra pines but does not waste. Her timid sister cringes in comparison to this inferno of vengeance. Then suddenly she has a cohort...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
| Author | Alexei Sayle |
| ISBN | 0340919582 |
Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney's Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown...
| Author | Jakob Johann von Uexküll |
| ISBN | 0816659001 |
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species,...
| Author | Jane Bennett |
| ISBN | 0822346338 |
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman...
| Author | Donna J. Haraway |
| ISBN | 0816650462 |
In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending over $38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted...
| Author | N. Katherine Hayles |
| ISBN | 0226321460 |
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others...
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0691017778 |
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures & drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen...
