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As many of you know, the "hot topic" today in many places (particularly "philosophical" ones) is called Posthumanism. It is active at NYU and I have participated in some of their events. I was supposed to be included in the NY group's involvement in the XXIVth World Congress for Philosophy in Beijing this past summer, where there were many sessions on the topic, but ran into problems with "permission" for the other meetings I was going to have (which then took place in October.)

http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn/yw/index.htm

It is the view of the Center that there are now globally Three Spheres: East, West and Digital and that the Digital Sphere has "posthumanity" as its goal. This is related (but not identical) to the older "transhumanism."

This announcement appeared this AM on the NYU group's Facebook page, so I pass it along for discussion here --

PLEASE SHARE the following information for all scholars of the posthuman:

The oldest publishing house in the world, Schwabe publishing (founded 1488), deeply rooted in the humanist tradition, embraces the intellectual engagement with one of the most significant debates of our time: Posthuman Studies: From Critical Posthumanism to Transhumanism. The series explicitly targets the international audience. All books will be peer-reviewed, copyedited, and internationally distributed. There are no printing cost subsidies. Please submit your manuscipt to Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, if you want it to be considered for this book series: www.sorgner.de

Here you find some more information about this newly launched book series: http://beyondhumanism.org/…/Flyer_Call-for-Manuscripts_Fina…

If you merely wish to publish a paper, please consider submitting it to the "Journal of Posthuman Studies" which was launched by Penn State University Press in 2017. It is the first academic journal explicitly dedicated to the posthuman: http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JPHS.html

To meet other scholars of the posthuman, the best place to be is the 11th Beyond Humanism conference which is dedicated to the following theme in 2019: Critical Posthumanism and Transhumanism: The Posthuman Paradigm Shift. It will take place from the 9th until the 12th of July 2019 at the Catholic University of Lille, France, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, ETHICS EA-7446. Here, you find the Call for Papers:
http://beyondhumanism.org/

Mark

P.S. Yes, it is ironic that PRINT ("the oldest publishing house in the world") is getting involved in this. PRINT was the enemy of SCRIBAL, eliminating perhaps 80% of the materials that had been written by scribes, ushering in what McLuhan called the "Gutenberg Galaxy." PRINT was already "posthuman" in the sense that it took human communications and mechanized it, replacing the human hand in the process.

When PRINT was itself being replaced by the ELECTRIC psycho-technological environment in the late-19th century, this led to the invention of the Typewriter, a machine that allowed humans to pretend that they were a printing press. I have known people with massive collections of early typewriters and, if you are inclined to observe the behaviors involved, I recommend the recent movie "California Typewriter" (complete with the logo that replaces the human head with a machine) . . . !!

http://californiatypewritermovie.com/

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner shared a link.