PR-PostHumanism Theory Research

What is "post-humanism"?

In a book titled "What is Posthumanism?" published in 2010, the author Cary Wolfe pointed out that the term "posthumanism" has entered contemporary social sciences The time in the critical discourse is the mid-1990s, but its origin can be traced back to the 1960s at least in a certain context, and the last passage of Foucault’s "Words and Things" is quoted as Explanation: "Man is a recent invention and is approaching its end... man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea."

Cybernetics represented by Gregory Bateson and others from 1946 to 1953, which is oriented to study the general laws of control and communication within humans, animals, and machines Therefore, its important feature is that it does not give priority to human beings. That is to say, humans or Homo sapiens are no longer regarded as special and superior to other animals or machines. Therefore, it has changed the previous society in a certain sense. The underlying assumptions of science or anthropology have also challenged a core of humanism that cannot be ignored, that is, emphasizing the superiority, uniqueness, and particularity of "people".

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在这一脉络中，还包括八十年代中期提出“行动者—网络理论”的社会学家布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour）等，因为在这个理论中，处在“行动者”位置的可能是人，也可能是非人。

In this context, Bruno Latour, a sociologist who put forward the "actor-network theory" in the mid-1980s, because in this theory, it is possible to be in the position of "actor" It is human, or it may be inhuman.