posthuman
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊstˌhjuːmən/
- Specialized
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posthumano
- Those privileged, powerful few with the most security and stability in the accepted notion of 'human' have the most to lose in a broader, more inclusive notion of the 'posthuman,' and they will—and do—fight to keep their power.
Examples
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We can think of posthuman as a way of understanding the irreversibly connected relationship that our species has with a natural world rapidly being reshaped by technical interventions.
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Instead, the posthuman accounts for the shared subjectivity between the human and the non-human, an assemblage (in the words of Deleuze and Guattari).
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The idea of the posthuman is to start from the ground up.
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But it looks like the economy itself is becoming posthuman.
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I didn't envision "posthuman" in terms of dignity and income.
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The most significant implication of this move—that of the linguistic turn to the informational turn—is to open the human sciences more fully to the natural sciences, and to the possibility of a 'posthuman' future.
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In science fiction, a posthuman may possess abilities far beyond those of regular humans due to technological enhancements.
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The concept of a posthuman challenges our understanding of identity and what it means to be human.
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Many theorists predict that the emergence of a posthuman society will lead to radical changes in human relationships and ethics.
Synonyms
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A person with much greater strength or powers than normal people
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Etymology
Posthuman as a noun comes from post- meaning 'after' and human meaning 'a person'. A posthuman is a future being whose body or mind has been changed so much it is no longer an ordinary human.