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(2018) A feminist companion to the posthumanities, Dordrecht, Springer.
While feminism has grappled with the disassembling of the majoritarian phallologocentric subject, posthuman and transhuman theory have shown a problematic acceleration of certain tropes associated with historically dominant subjects, rather than offer material and ethical alternatives, using fetishisation and assimilation of alterity to further their phantasies of immortality rather than authentically challenge configurations of life. However there are ways in which an ethics of posthuman sexuality coming from a feminist history can be both accountable and avoid the perils of superficial posthumanism via certain instances of desire. This chapter will explore the trajectory of posthuman desire implemented through Continental Philosophy and end with a variety of configurations of desire beyond humanism, but also beyond the phallologically driven biotech fetishism of some posthumanism. The posthuman shows we can no longer be trustworthy of studies of the human, of humanism or even of the...
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1_3
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MacCormack, P. (2018)., Posthuman sexuality: from ahumanity to cosmogenic desire, in C. Åsberg & R. Braidotti (eds.), A feminist companion to the posthumanities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 35-43.
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