Geographical analyses of posthuman thought have called for the need to develop a critical form of posthumanism that neither rehashes the pitfalls of humanism, nor promulgates a universalized and ungrounded subject position. This article demonstrates how recent advances in critical posthumanism work to address the limitations of posthuman thought by offering a unified philosophical framework that situates knowledge claims and reimagines human subjectivity and human-nonhuman relations. Critical posthumanism not only synthesizes several of the political, methodological, and philosophical strands of posthuman thought that geographers and philosophers have drawn out, but it also foregrounds an affirmative ethico-political ethos toward a historical moment characterized by socioecological injustices, intersectional inequalities, and advanced capitalist economic systems. By separating itself from transhumanist and epochal forms of posthumanism, critical posthumanism offers cultural geographers concentrating on human-nature relations a more philosophically rigorous, socially accountable, and critical way of approaching the stakes involved in posthumanist discussions.

对后人类思想的地理分析要求发展一种批判性的后人类主义形式，它既不重述人文主义的陷阱，也不宣扬一种普遍的、没有根据的主体立场。本文展示了批判性后人类主义的最新进展如何通过提供一个统一的哲学框架来解决后人类思想的局限性，该框架定位知识主张并重新构想人类主体性和人类与非人类的关系。批判的后人文主义不仅综合了地理学家和哲学家所引出的后人类思想的若干政治、方法论和哲学脉络，而且还为以社会生态不公正、交叉不平等、和先进的资本主义经济制度。通过将自己与超人类主义和时代形式的后人类主义分开，批判性后人类主义为专注于人与自然关系的文化地理学家提供了一种更哲学严谨、社会责任感和批判性的方式来处理后人类主义讨论所涉及的利害关系。