Lyotard and the Inhuman by Stuart Sim
For Jean-Francois Lyotard, the cyborg is a symbol of fear, Mankind already inhabits a world which views machine implantation in humans as normal and necessary. It implies a future, Lyotard warns, which may dangerously negate the value of humanity itself.Northumbria University's Stuart Sim is a Professor of Critical Theory and Long Eighteenth-Century English Literature. The End of Modernity: What the Financial & Environmental Crisis Is Really Telling Us (2010), The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism, 3rd edition (2011), The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), and Addicted to Profit: Recovering Our Lives from the Free Market (2012) are among his past writings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840462357 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840462353 |
| Title | Lyotard and the Inhuman |
| Author | Stuart Sim |
| Series | Postmodern Encounters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Icon Books |
| Year published | 2001-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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