posthumanism n.
the idea that humanity can be transformed, transcended, or eliminated either by technological advances or the evolutionary process; artistic, scientific, or philosophical practice which reflects this belief; cf. posthuman n.
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1971
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From infrahumanism to posthumanism, beyond man and into the cosmos. Sci-fi. To love life and to love man are no longer the same.
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1985
Bruce Sterling
Really? Posthumanism! Prigoginic levels of complexity! Fractal scales, bedrock of space-time, precontinuum ur-space! Have I got it right?
Schismatrix 229
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2003
I know this is not really news, but I keep being reminded that we have another Golden Age of Space Opera on our hands. I suspect part of what makes it golden is the way the edges of the old wide-screen space adventure have blurred off into oddly contiguous or harmonious subgenres: the humanism of Jack McDevitt and Nancy Kress; the post-humanism of Greg Egan, Wil McCarthy, Linda Nagata, Karl Schroeder, or John C. Wright; and a whole range of wild and exotic high tech to keep us pocket-protector types happy.
Reviews by Russell Letson in Locus Apr. 25/3
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2005
Charles Stross
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This is the elitist side of the posthumanism shtick, potentially as threatening to her post-enlightenment ideas as the divine right of kings.
Accelerando 108
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antedating 1985
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B. Sterling 'Schismatrix'
Research History
Douglas Winston submitted a 1985 cite from Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix". Jeff Prucher submitted a 2003 cite from a review by Russell Letson.We would like cites of any date from other sources.
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