Aesthetic reflections by various members of the Frankfurt school have dominated the art world
for many decades. Sorgner shows that they introduced a paternalistic logic in the field of
aesthetics while attempting to overcome paternalism. His art philosophical alternative reveals
the option of creating non-totalitarian total works of art. The wide spectrum of posthuman
artworks reveals the immense diversity of nontotalitarian total works of art. A deeply
considered survey of the posthuman future of art. Sorgner's philosophy of posthumanism provides
a path away from the dominant 20th-century aesthetics that still inform our conception of art
today. Through the innovative concept of the 'twist ' Sorgner's encyclopedic text frames
posthumanism as the foundation of an anti-totalitarian future of art. Eduardo Kac Philosophy of
Posthuman Art impressively examines the aesthetics of the monstrous of hybridity of
smoothness and of the amorphous to name a few. It is an articulate and informed analysis not
only of particular artworks but also their philosophical underpinnings of Critical Posthumanism
Transhumanism and Metahumanism. It not only includes examples of bioart body art performance
art and cryptoart but also techno digital and cyborg music. It is a time when we transition
from the ontology of Being to the ontology of Becoming. We are now in a liminal age of the
hybrid and the chimera. And as Stefan Lorenz Sorgner reminds us with a twist we have always
been cyborgs. Stelarc
