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"On the rise of posthuman visions and how they are transforming anthropology of technology"
New technologies and the environmental crisis are transforming what it means to be human. They challenge the role of the human being – especially in relation to the non-human –and call for new anthropological reflections. In this context, various visions of the so-called "posthuman" are emerging.
First, there are transhumanist and ideological visions of the posthuman that aim to radically transform or even overcome the human through technology. Second, there are approaches within new materialism (e.g., Haraway, Barad), the ethics of technology, and environmental philosophy that propose a posthuman understanding – not as a technological upgrade, but as a shift toward a non-anthropocentric and critical reconsideration of humanism.
In this talk, I will explore these different versions of the posthuman and examine how they contribute to the transformation of anthropology. The rise of the posthuman signals and marks a broader rethinking of the human and of anthropological thought itself. But in what direction is this rethinking heading? How is anthropology being transformed? I will discuss relational and more-than-human approaches in the anthropology of technology that seek to challenge anthropocentrism and to rethink human–non-human relations.