posthuman
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- adjective
- /ˈpoʊstˌhjuːmən/
- Formal
:
posthumano
- Taylor, Matthew. "The Nature of Fear: Edgar Allan Poe and Posthuman Ecology." American Literature 84:2 (2012): 353-79. Print.
- posthuman future
Examples
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A recently concluded poll of IEET readers suggests that nearly half of us believe that we may be living in a simulation being performed by a far more advanced posthuman civilization.
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It was expressed by one participant as "posthuman exuberance."
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Those who fear a posthuman future are probably wrong.
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Posthuman civilizations in the distant future will have developed to such an extent that they will be able to run highly realistic simulations of their evolutionary history.
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Like FT, other atheist transhumanists trust at least that our environment will be conducive to a radically flourishing posthuman potential.
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Throughout this article, I analyze how Alberto Fuguet's Sudor serves as a useful case study for considering how a novel in 2017 might function as a technology of posthuman intimacy.
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Frankenstein shifts from sublime Alpine and Arctic natural landscapes to ponder the incommensurable horror inspired by Dr. Frankenstein's posthuman Creature.
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But where we find alternative posthuman subjectivities to take the place of the liberal-humanist subject, the narratological device of metalepsis might not survive the transition from a poetics of bending to a poetics of breaking.
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Orientalism and xenophobia are purified, as it were, of their attachment to actual people and places; imperialism persists and is naturalized as this vaporous posthuman residue.
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Advancements in biotechnology are leading us toward a posthuman future where traditional human limitations may no longer apply.
Synonyms
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Physical or mental abilities improved beyond normal human limits by technology
A being that has abilities beyond those of people
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Posthuman comes from the prefix post- meaning 'after', as in postwar, and human meaning 'a person'. So posthuman describes something 'after' or beyond the human we know, often because of advanced technology.