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This title explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. "Beyond Human" investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species, and the questions this might raise for our relationship with the myriad species with which we share the planet. Drawing on insights from zoology, theology, cultural studies and aesthetics, an international line-up of contributors explore such topics as our origins as reflected in early cave art in the upper Palaeolithic through to our prospects at the forefront of contemporary biotechnology. In the process, the book positions 'the human' in readiness for what many have characterized as our transhuman or posthuman future. For if our status as rational animals or 'animals that think' has traditionally distinguished us as apparently superior to other species, this distinction has become increasingly problematic. It has come to be seen as based on skills and technologies that do not distinguish us so much as position us as transitional animals.
It is the direction and consequences of this transition that is the central concern of "Beyond Human".
Contents
Preface Sean Cubitt; Introduction Charlie Blake, Claire Molloy and Steven Shakespeare; Part I: Animality - Boundaries and Definitions; 1. Incidents toward an Animal Revolution Ron Broglio; 2. Being a Known Animal Claire Molloy; 3. Beyond the Pain Principle Giovanni Aloi; Part II: Representing Animality; 4. What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir; 5. New Tricks Tom Tyler; 6. Writing Relations: the Crab, the Lobster, the Orchid, the Primrose, You, Me, Chaos and Literature Lucile Desblache; Part III: Thinking Beyond the Divide; 7. Degrees of Freedom: Humans as Primates: in Dialogue with Hans urs von Balthasar Celia Deane-Drummond; 8. Levinas, Bataille and the Theology of Animal Life Donald Turner; 9. Art in the Age of Animality: Telepathy, Constellation, Polis Frederick Young; Part IV: Animal - Human - Machine; 10. Inhuman Geometries: Aurochs & Angels and the Refuge of Art Charlie Blake; 11. The Mechanical Image of an Animal God Steven Shakespeare; 12. Transforming the Human Body Gareth Jones; Bibliography; Index.
