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Stout cites the example of BP’s decision to save $1 million a day by short-cutting safety procedures at its Gulf of Mexico rigs, and the eventual cost to shareholders of nearly $100 billion. She says the "shareholder value dogma" also has the effect of turning everyday investors, who would normally support "pro-social" corporate behavior, into "functional psychopaths".
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"Aligning themselves with information science and Foucault’sproclamation of the death of man, posthumanism, inspired by Donna Haraway’sessay “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1991) and Katherine Hayles’s book How We BecamePosthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999), is replacingpostmodernism as the defining form of political co...
Julia Rijssenbeek en Martine Dirkzwager Wu: "A frequently voiced answer to 21st-century anthropocentrism is post-humanism. Departing from humanism, post-humanism rejects humans’ exceptional position vis-à-vis other species. Instead of considering humans binarily opposed to non-humans, it invites us to critically rethink the identity we have attribu...
Posthumanism as the successor of deconstructive postmodernism
Arran Gare: "How should we understand posthumanism in this context? Posthumanism isthe successor to deconstructive postmodernism. There are several reasons whypostmodernism was superseded. First, it was associated with an extreme scepticismtowards science, which, given the technological achievements evident all around usthat were made possible by science, seemed absurd. Second, it led to intellectualstagnation. As Paul Mason (p.177) observed, citing the work of the Australian-Italianfeminist...
Who are the posthumanists
Arran Gare: "Posthumanism amounts to a total rejection of the revival of humanism bythe New Left, which reinterpreted Marx’s work on this basis to oppose the nihilistic,instrumentalist thinking dominating both Soviet Marxism and Western bureaucraticcapitalism. The New Left in turn were recovering the heritage of German thoughtdeveloped in opposition to the atomistic, utilitarian philosophies dominating Franceand Britain. They were defending a more exalted idea of humans and humanity thatackno...
The Role of Foucault
Arran Gare: " Foucault, who was strongly influenced by structuralism while denyingthat he was a structuralist, played a crucial role in undermining the humanism of theNew Left. The observation from Foucault embraced by the posthumanists comes from theconcluding two paragraphs of The Order of Things (1970, p.387; Wolfe, 2020, p.xii)where he wrote: - As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. If those arrangements were to...
Book 1 Review Excerpted from John Hagel: Richard Florida "has just written a compelling new book, The Great Reset, that takes a longer term historical view of changing patterns in the settlement of people and places. In fact, he makes a strong case that we are ...
