Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained and interrogating three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly mobilized against.
The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges support for the open-access edition of this book from York University.
Portions of the Introduction and chapter 5 were previously published as “Deconstructing Affect: Posthumanism and Mark Hansen’s Media Theory,” Theory, Culture, and Society 28, no. 5 (2011): 3–33. Portions of chapter 2 were previously published in Eiodola: William Brent and Ellen Moffat (Victoria, B.C.: Open Space Arts Society, 2009). Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Melancholy and the Territory of Digital Performance,” in Collision: Interarts Practice and Research, ed. David Cecchetto, Nancy Cuthbert, Julie Lassonde, and Dylan Robinson, 77–90 (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars, 2008); published with the permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. A different version of chapter 6 was previously published as “Sounding the Hyperlink: Skewed Remote Musical Performance and the Virtual Subject,” Mosaic 42, no. 1 (2009): 1–18.
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