Posthumanism is consequently not - as some claim - an ethics committed to releasing the world from the philosophical grip of anthropocentrism. A sedentary, relatable world against which anthropocentrism once appeared tenable or well-motivat…Maximizing agency implies its discursive subtraction because the irreducibility of the normative implies that hyper-agents could not use intentional idioms for self-understanding. Given the irreducibility of the psychological to the physica…[^5]: Adrian Johnston, “Phantom of Consistency: Alain Badiou and Kantian Transcendental idealism,” Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2008), 352-54; Badiou, Being and Event, 28.
[^6]: Ibid., 327-43.
[^7]: David Roden, Posthuma…
Claire Colebrook
philosopher · 4 mentions across 2 readings
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Claire Colebrook is a theorist of posthumanism who challenges the assumption that moving beyond anthropocentrism requires a stable, knowable world—instead arguing that the very conditions enabling human agency are subliming away in contemporary technological and ecological conditions. Her work appears in the course readings to frame how posthuman thought must grapple with the irreducibility of agency and normativity rather than simply celebrate the dissolution of the human subject. This positions her as essential to understanding how AI and cybernetic systems force a reckoning not just with what counts as human, but with the unstable ground on which intentionality and self-understanding itself operates.
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