Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Herausgeber: Radia, Pavlina; Kruk, Laurie; Winters, Sarah Fiona
Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Herausgeber: Radia, Pavlina; Kruk, Laurie; Winters, Sarah Fiona
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.
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This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.
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- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 559g
- ISBN-13: 9781786609564
- ISBN-10: 1786609568
- Artikelnr.: 56154327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 559g
- ISBN-13: 9781786609564
- ISBN-10: 1786609568
- Artikelnr.: 56154327
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Pavlina Radia is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She is also Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: "Two Very Serious Ladies" (2016) and Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (2016). She is also a co-editor of Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts with Ann McCulloch (2012). Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in post-war children's fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C. S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy. Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She has published The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012).
Introduction: Reflections on the (Post)Human Future, Pavlina Radia
Part I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters
Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History
Perspective, Fred Spier
Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of
Diminishing Returns, David Witzling
Chapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering
Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien
Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk
Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in
Modernity, Gillian McCann
Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and
Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia
Chapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor's Story, Aaron Weiss
Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters
Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine
Bolus-Reichert
Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Fu
Part I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters
Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History
Perspective, Fred Spier
Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of
Diminishing Returns, David Witzling
Chapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering
Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien
Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk
Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in
Modernity, Gillian McCann
Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and
Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia
Chapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor's Story, Aaron Weiss
Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters
Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine
Bolus-Reichert
Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Fu
Introduction: Reflections on the (Post)Human Future, Pavlina Radia
Part I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters
Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History
Perspective, Fred Spier
Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of
Diminishing Returns, David Witzling
Chapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering
Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien
Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk
Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in
Modernity, Gillian McCann
Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and
Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia
Chapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor's Story, Aaron Weiss
Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters
Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine
Bolus-Reichert
Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Fu
Part I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters
Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History
Perspective, Fred Spier
Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of
Diminishing Returns, David Witzling
Chapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering
Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien
Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk
Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in
Modernity, Gillian McCann
Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and
Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia
Chapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor's Story, Aaron Weiss
Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters
Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine
Bolus-Reichert
Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Fu







