The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of
debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It
includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman
Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts
central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies.
The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington Karen Barad Nick Bostrom Rosi Braidotti
Claire Colebrook Jaime del Val FM-2030 Francis Fukuyama Elaine Graham Donna Haraway Ihab
Habib Hassan N. Katherine Hayles James Hughes Julian Huxley Brian Massumi Max More David
Pearce Anders Sandberg Stefan Lorenz Sorgner Stelarc Natasha Vita-More and Cary Wolfe. This
Reader is a perfect guide to get into bleeding-edge philosophy.Nicolás Rojas Cortés Faculty of
Philosophy and Humanities University of Chile The Reader can be used not only as a textbook in
higher education but also by all researchers and students in these fields as reference. [...]
I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in these movements and those works from
which excerpts are included in it.Yunus Tuncel The New School New York Since Sorgner
Sampanikou Stasienko and their colleagues almost singlehandedly are crafting and advancing
this discipline through its forming stages when they publish a book with handpicked canonic
texts it should be treated as a landmark.Carmel Vaisman The Cohn Institute and The
Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities Tel Aviv University What makes the Posthuman
Studies Reader interesting and exciting is the facility to have in one volume the basic ideas
and essentials of transhumanism critical posthumanism and metahumanism. The reader provides in
a condensed version an introduction to posthuman studies for both academic and nonacademic
audiences.Leo Igwe Department of Religious Studies University of Cape Town The Posthuman
Studies Reader serves as a comprehensive guide and or manual of an evolving and expanding Post
Trans Meta Humanism discourse. [...] because of the clarity of organization by the editors and
the highest scholarship of the writers the collection was able to drive the interest of
readers a notch or two higher.Joseph Reylan B. Viray Polytechnic University of the Philippines
