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Posthumanism: An Introduction

Prof. Pramod K Nayar · University of Hyderabad

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About

This course is an introduction to one of the most dominant schools of thought in the Humanities and Social Sciences today, with visible impact on computer sciences, legal studies and other disciplines. It examines the origins, key concepts and the central tenets of the school, while drawing from literary texts and, where necessary, popular genres like cinema and comics. It explores the philosophical consequences of a posthumanist vision, especially in terms of robot-ethics, care and the Anthropocene.

Intended audience: Undergrad and postgrad students

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Posthumanism: Contexts I: Technologies YouTube
  2. Contexts II: Humanism and its Critiques YouTube
  3. Contexts III: the Environment and the Anthropocene YouTube
  4. Transhumanism YouTube
  5. Popular Posthumanism YouTube

Week 2

  1. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 1: New Materialisms YouTube
  2. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 2: Human-Animal Studies - I YouTube
  3. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 2: Human-Animal Studies - II YouTube
  4. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 3: Consciousness and Cognition Studies YouTube
  5. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 4: Feminist Epistemologies, Ethics & Posthumanism YouTube
  6. Critical Posthumanism. Genealogies - 5: Disability Studies YouTube

Week 3

  1. Posthuman Bodies: Cyborgs 1 YouTube
  2. Posthuman Bodies: Cyborgs 2 - Gender and Cyborgs YouTube
  3. Posthuman Biology YouTube
  4. Biotech, Biocapitalism and Posthuman Bodies/Biology - I YouTube
  5. Biotech, Biocapitalism and Posthuman Bodies/Biology -II YouTube
  6. Biopolitics and Biocapitalism in Contemporary Literature YouTube

Week 4

  1. The Question of the Nonhuman I YouTube
  2. The Question of the Nonhuman II YouTube
  3. Companion Species & Multispecies YouTube
  4. Transcorporeal Trauma YouTube
  5. Multispecies in Contemporary Literature YouTube

Week 5

  1. BioArt YouTube
  2. Posthuman Performance Arts YouTube
  3. Literary Posthumanisms 1 YouTube
  4. Literary Posthumanisms 2: Feminist Speculative Fiction YouTube
  5. Literary Posthumanism 3: Group Discussion YouTube

Week 6

  1. Posthuman Subjects I YouTube
  2. Posthuman Subjects II YouTube
  3. Posthuman Subjects and Ethics I YouTube
  4. Posthuman Subjects and Ethics II YouTube
  5. Posthuman Vulnerability, Ethics and Contemporary Literature YouTube

Week 7

  1. The Environment and Posthumanism YouTube
  2. The Posthuman, the Anthropocene and the Post-natural in Contemporary Literature -I YouTube
  3. The Posthuman, the Anthropocene and the Post-natural in Contemporary Literature -II YouTube
  4. Posthumanism and Care YouTube
  5. Posthumanism and the Anthropocene: Group Discussion YouTube

Week 8

  1. Human Enhancement - I YouTube
  2. Human Enhancement - II YouTube
  3. Human Enhancement - III YouTube
  4. Moral Enhancement YouTube
  5. Posthuman Sports YouTube
  6. Moral Enhancement and Contemporary Literature: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempaths YouTube
  7. Literary Posthumanism IV: Group Discussion YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
University of Hyderabad
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Pramod K Nayar
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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