# Affirmative Posthumanism [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumanism) ( 1980s–present ) ## Description Bibliography on Rosi Braidotti's affirmative posthumanism — an ethical, critical-theory stance affirming relational, embodied, non-unitary subjectivity beyond humanism's "Human," in contrast to transhumanism's techno-enhancement project (see [[Techno Posthumanism]]). Builds on Haraway's cyborg feminism and Hayles's critique of disembodied "informatics," extending into nonhuman becoming and nonnormative embodiment. ## Key Tags #posthumanism #affirmative-posthumanism ## Essential Works - Braidotti, Rosi. *The Posthuman*. Polity Press, 2013. - %% Central statement of affirmative posthumanism as an ethics of "monistic vitalism" %% - Haraway, Donna. "Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape." n.d. - %% Key essay extending cyborg feminism into posthumanist critique of "the human" %% - Hayles, N. Katherine. *How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics*. University of Chicago Press, 1999. - %% Chapter 1, "Toward Embodied Virtuality" — critiques the disembodiment fantasy in cybernetics discourse %% - Ferreday, Debra. "Becoming Deer: Nonhuman Drag and Online Utopias." *Feminist Theory* 12, no. 2 (2011): 219–25. - %% Nonhuman/animal becoming as a mode of online posthuman identity play %% ## Details %% A more comprehensive personal reflection and collection of relevant notes, details, references, links %% ### Key Theorists - [[Rosi Braidotti]] - %%coins and develops affirmative posthumanism as an ethics of relational, embodied, nomadic subjectivity%% - [[Donna Haraway]] - %%cyborg feminism and critique of the humanist "Human" via "Ecce Homo" and related essays%% - [[Karen Barad]] - %%agential realism and posthumanist performativity extend feminist science studies into posthumanist theory%% - [[Susan Stryker]] - %%her "Frankenstein" essay links transgender embodiment to posthumanist and monstrous figuration%% ### Exemplary Practitioners %% none yet %% ### Related Concepts - [[Techno Posthumanism]] - %%the technological/enhancement strand Braidotti's affirmative posthumanism defines itself against%% - [[The Body]] - %%posthumanism extends embodiment questions into the nonhuman and technological%% - [[Philosophy]] - %%shares Haraway and Hofstadter's "strange loop" as common ground%% - [[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]] - %%shares Spinner's work on spiritualism as a case of nonstandard subjectivity%% - [[Queer Theory]] - %%shares questions of embodiment and nonnormative becoming%% ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Associated Movements or Institutions %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Braidotti, Rosi. *The Posthuman*. Polity Press, 2013. Ferreday, Debra. "Becoming Deer: Nonhuman Drag and Online Utopias." *Feminist Theory* 12, no. 2 (2011): 219–25. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700111404288](https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700111404288). Haraway, Donna. "Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others." n.d. Hayles, N. Katherine. *How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics*. Chapter 1, "Toward Embodied Virtuality." University of Chicago Press, 1999. Spinner, Codee Ann. *Resonant Spirits: Spiritualism, Music, and Community in Lily Dale, NY (1848-1920)*. n.d.