ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the validity of the contention that, over the past decades, we have been witnessing the rise of the ‘posthuman condition’. To this end, the analysis draws on the work of the contemporary philosopher Rosi Braidotti. The paper is divided into four parts. The first part centres on the concept of posthumanism, suggesting that it reflects a systematic attempt to challenge humanist assumptions underlying the construction of ‘the human’. The second part focuses on the concept of post-anthropocentrism, demonstrating that it articulates a desire to reject the twin ideas of ‘species supremacism’ and ‘human exceptionalism’, which it seeks to replace with ‘species egalitarianism’ and ‘monistic vitalism’. The third part is concerned with the concept of critical posthumanities, positing that its advocacy is based on the cross-fertilization of posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism. The fourth part offers an assessment of the ‘posthuman condition’ thesis, evaluating the extent to which it sheds new light on the ways in which our engagements with the world are shaped by the confluence of zoe-, geo-, and techno-based dimensions. The paper concludes with a brief summary of the key insights gained from the preceding inquiry.

摘要

本文的主要目的是检验在过去几十年中我们一直在目睹“后人类状况”的兴起这一论点的有效性。为此，分析借鉴了当代哲学家 Rosi Braidotti 的工作。论文分为四个部分。第一部分以后人类主义的概念为中心，表明它反映了一种系统性的尝试，旨在挑战作为“人类”建构基础的人文主义假设。第二部分关注后人类中心主义的概念，表明它表达了一种拒绝“物种至上主义”和“人类例外主义”的双重思想的愿望，它试图用“物种平等主义”和“一元活力论”取而代之。第三部分是关于概念的批判的后人文主义，假定其倡导是基于后人文主义和后人类中心主义的交叉融合。第四部分提供了一个评估的“后人类状况”论文，以评估它在其中我们与世界接合被汇合形的方式揭示新的光的程度佐伊- ，地理和技术-基于维度. 本文最后简要总结了从之前的调查中获得的关键见解。