However – importantly – there is another strand of posthumanism which is more based in a critique of the philosophy of humanism – ‘critical posthumanism’. This isn’t anything to do with enhancement or transcendence of bodily limitation, but it’s rather to do with suggesting that we need to move beyond humanist philosophy in considering what it means to be human in the world: we can’t continue to see ‘the human’ as an essential entity that anchors all meaning and action, but need to think about how ‘the human’ is constituted by its interactions and dependencies on other non-human and material entities.

In my paper set for this week there is a bit more on this distinction, so keep up the reading and thinking! It’s good to see some substantive blog posts here in the lifestream, alongside the instagrams and tweets – great : )