posthumanism, n.Definitions

Posthumanism is characterized by a loss of subjectivity based on bodily boundaries.

Posthumanism is the notion that the languages of imagination and the languages of science have crossed.

Posthumanism is a way of thinking concerned less about what things mean (to humans) than what things do.

Posthumanism is a human descendent augmented to such a degree as to be no longer human.

Posthumanism is a methodology which recognizes that non-human actors such as microbes, speed bumps and hotel keys, or the population of paris are not merely co-habitants in the world, but rather, these humble objects anticipate and help shape our behaviours, each bringing a particular order, a distinct attribution, an authorization or prohibition, a promise or permission.

Posthumanism is the movement whereby that which has been used to generate a system is made, through a changed perspective, to become part of the system it generates.

Posthumanism is an analytic approach which acknowledges forms of non-human agency and thus removes humans from center stage where humanist had put them.

Posthumanism is the idea that five-hundred years of humanism may be coming to an end as the human form, desire, and representation are becoming unrecognizable.