Journal of Human Sciences, n ° 341, January-March 2021:
“Transhumanism and posthumanist Fictions”
Mara Magda Maftei (dir.)
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2021.
EAN13: 9782913761889.
Transhumanism intends to create an “augmented man”, freed from his biological contingencies and more efficient. Posthumanist Fictions raise the anthropological, philosophical, political, economic and social questions that this raises.
This issue devoted to transhumanism and posthumanism confronts for the first time the points of view of researchers in literature, philosophy and science with French writers concerned by the modifications made to man via NBIC technologies. Interviews with Pierre Ducrozet, Isabelle Jarry, Antoine Bello, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia and François-Régis de Guenyveau show to what extent contemporary writers draw on the theories and experiences woven around the posthuman as well as personalities who increasingly populate our daily lives like Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil or Nick Bostrom.
Summary
A stable transhumanism and a multiple posthumanism – Mara Magda MAFTEI
Arts and Fictions
The subject of posthumanism. Thoughts on some contemporary novels in times of pandemic – Jean-Paul ENGÉLIBERT
The televisual posthuman, a plural and hybrid figure in screen culture – Elaine DESPRÉS, Hélène MACHINAL
Imaginaries and experiences of the post-human in contemporary art – Marie Laure DELAPORTE
The fluidic man or hyper-man in Paul Otlet (1868-1944). A complex transhumanist perspective – Olivier LE DEUFF
Word to the writers
Interviews with Mara Magda Maftei
The contemporary body – Pierre DUCROZET
The figure of the android – Isabelle JARRY
A disembodied consciousness – Gabriel NAËJ (Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA)
The transhumanist runaway – François-Régis DE GUENYVEAU
An overly efficient artificial intelligence – Antoine BEAUTIFUL
Philosophical approaches
Transhumanism and the question of perfection – Jean-Yves GOFFI
Nostalgia for the future. The transhumanist narrative – Paul-Laurent ASSOUN
The confined posthuman: the synhaptic membrane – Pierre CASSOU-NOGUÈS
Man augmented by institutions and artifice in institutional speech – Emmanuel PICAVET
Moralization of naked life – transhumanism and biopolitics – Katia SCHWERZMANN
From Science to Science Fiction
Neuroprostheses for humans: between therapy and augmentation – Éric FOURNERET, Clément HÉBERT, Blaise YVERT
What if my disappearance was told to me? Transhumanism, posthumanism and science fiction – Marc ATALLAH
From the technicization of bodies to post-humanity? Cyberpunk as a moment and space of problematization of the transformations of the human condition – Yannick DRUM
Truth and / or post-truth in a world where “Everything is linked” – Jacques PRINTZ
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Mara Magda Maftei is Professor of Universities in Bucharest and Associate Researcher of the Observatory of Contemporary French and Francophone Writings at the University of Paris Nanterre. She has been a visiting scholar of the College of World Studies, FMSH. She has a doctorate in French literature (2009) and a doctorate in the history of economic thought (2007). She is a literary critic and essayist and has published numerous books and articles internationally, including two books in French: Cioran and the dream of a lost generation, 2013, L’Harmattan, (collection Philosophical opening) and An original Cioran. Why is he intriguing?, 2016, Yves Michalon Editor, Éditions Fauves. She is currently co-directing a research project entitled “Transhumanism and posthumanism between realities and imaginations” at the University of Paris-Nanterre.
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