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Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note JEFFREY R. DI LEO “Posthumanism” signifi es one of the most interdisciplinary and transdis- ciplinary areas of critical and cultural theory today. A broad area of inquiry, it ranges from trans-humanist works such as N. Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman (1999) to post-human initiatives like Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (2007). Questions about exceeding and going beyond the human capture the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic spirit of our times. Moreover, inquiry in this area also examines the fate and alleged end of the “humanities” and “humanism”—a topic of central concern for all who affi li- ate with one or both of these terms. Focus editors, Nathan Snaza and Mina Karavanta, have done a fi ne job bringing together a variety of essays that engage posthumanism in ways that avoid fl attening “the human” into a monolithic or homogenous prob- lematic. The work they have assembled in this issue under the capacious title Posthumanisms provides a sense of the variety and range of material affi liated with the term—work that spans areas of inquiry such as philosophy, political theory, literary studies, popular culture, the life sciences, cybernet- ics, systems theory, artifi cial intelligence, technoculture, and so on. The essays http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png symploke University of Nebraska Press

Editor’s Note

Di Leo, Jeffrey R.
symploke , Volume 23 (1) – Dec 31, 2015
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JEFFREY R. DI LEO “Posthumanism” signifi es one of the most interdisciplinary and transdis- ciplinary areas of critical and cultural theory today. A broad area of inquiry, it ranges from trans-humanist works such as N. Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman (1999) to post-human initiatives like Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (2007). Questions about exceeding and going beyond the human capture the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic spirit of our times. Moreover, inquiry in this area also examines the fate and alleged end of the “humanities” and “humanism”—a topic of central concern for all who affi li- ate with one or both of these terms. Focus editors, Nathan Snaza and Mina Karavanta, have done a fi ne job bringing together a variety of essays that engage posthumanism in ways that avoid fl attening “the human” into a monolithic or homogenous prob- lematic. The work they have assembled in this issue under the capacious title Posthumanisms provides a sense of the variety and range of material affi liated with the term—work that spans areas of inquiry such as philosophy, political theory, literary studies, popular culture, the life sciences, cybernet- ics, systems theory, artifi cial intelligence, technoculture, and so on. The essays

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