... work will alter their capacities for teaching and learning. This approach might be termed “posthuman” for the way it shifts the focus from individual humans to their media environments. Taking up the classical, rhetorical concepts of kairos and metanoia (opportunity and regret), this chapter...

... in the public sphere that marked increasing awareness of deadly threats from the air. They pointed to the potentially toxic posthuman condition of wartime when survival would necessitate such lifesaving prostheses. With the development of chemical warfare, fear of poison gas intensified around the world...

... plot automata communication consciousness machines posthumans anthropocentrism Cairnes John Elliott Huxley T H James William Nietzsche Friedrich Spencer Herbert writing Henry Nancy hybridity Miller Andrew H impersonality seeds Blanc Charles semiosis signification totality George...

... music, and musical experiments with machine learning. Each chapter addresses a figure of relation between human and machine—android, hybrid, analogy, personification, and posthuman—through examples that move from French Enlightenment makings of “sounding human versus machine” to twenty-first century...

... that a striking resemblance emerges between the technological subject as reimagined constructively, beyond the Heideggerian critique, in what is now commonly called posthuman discourse, and the mystical subject as imagined in its creative capacity by a theological tradition wrongly, or at least incompletely...

...This chapter engages more recent theorizations of technological culture, associated notably with the “posthuman,” in order to elaborate linkages analogous to those made in theological tradition between creativity and incomprehension. It argues that, in both traditional mystical contexts...

...This chapter engages one of the more insightful and far-reaching among recent challenges to “the posthuman”—that of Robert Harrison's Dominion of the Dead (2003)—in order to argue that the worldly conditions of human placement and heritage, on which Harrison focuses in his...