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Avatar Bodies
- A Tantra For Posthumanism
Engelsk Hardback
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- A Tantra For Posthumanism
Engelsk Hardback

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An ethically-based approach to human relations for the media age
 

Otherness, alterity, the alien—over the course of the past fifty years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, autobiography, and real and imagined correspondence, Ann Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other—whether technological, animal, or simply inanimate—will we truly become posthuman.

Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human–technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs, and affects.

Weinstone calls her book a “tantra”—by which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other, self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780816641468
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0816641463
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 mar 2004
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
149mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
4 mar 2004
Forfatter(e):
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