2016
DOI: 10.20396/etd.v18i2.8646176
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Human equality projects as prerequisites for a posthuman embrace

Abstract: The posthuman curriculum is emancipatory, but its emancipatory potential is presently limited. Given current inequalities among humans, movement beyond the human begs the question, "movement beyond which human?" Posthumanist and postcolonial literature at the crux of this conflict is briefly reviewed, and a resolution to the disagreements is proposed: Posthumanists wishing to advance their agenda should consider joining the human equality projects of humanists, such that, in due time, a fuller conception of hu… Show more

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“…Braidotti, for example, maintains that the posthuman -a figuration carried by a specific cartographic reading of present discursive conditions -can be put to the collective task of constructing new subjects of knowledge, through immanent assemblages or transversal alliances between multiple actors (2019,36) In place of a unitary ideal that unites differently racialized humans as humans, Braidotti prefers assemblages and alliances that construct new meanings of what it is to be (completely) human. Siddiqui (2016), similarly, proposes expanding conceptions of the human in ways that include those who have historically been excluded while also equalizing the legitimacy of different conceptions.…”
Section: Are Racialized Individuals Posthuman?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Braidotti, for example, maintains that the posthuman -a figuration carried by a specific cartographic reading of present discursive conditions -can be put to the collective task of constructing new subjects of knowledge, through immanent assemblages or transversal alliances between multiple actors (2019,36) In place of a unitary ideal that unites differently racialized humans as humans, Braidotti prefers assemblages and alliances that construct new meanings of what it is to be (completely) human. Siddiqui (2016), similarly, proposes expanding conceptions of the human in ways that include those who have historically been excluded while also equalizing the legitimacy of different conceptions.…”
Section: Are Racialized Individuals Posthuman?mentioning
confidence: 99%