Un fantôme ne meurt jamais, il reste toujours à venir et à revenir. Responsabilité infinie, donc, pas de repos possible pour une quelconque bonne conscience. —Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx, 19. The disposal and meaning of human remains, or “necro-waste,”… Read More ›
Jacques Derrida
Review: John Troyer’s Technologies of the Human Corpse, Mark D. West
In some ways, we moderns are as much in the dark as were the ancients when we contemplate death. Currently holding sway in the West is the “metabolic definition,” as laid out by Schrödinger in 1944, which suggests that life… Read More ›
A Reply to Jun’s “Posthuman Subjectivity and Singularity in the Nature-Culture Continuum,” Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
In his article on “Posthuman Subjectivity and Singularity in the Nature-Culture Continuum” (2020) Hyun-Shik Jun challenges Rosi Braidotti’s approach to the emergence and ontology of posthuman subjectivity from the nature-culture continuum. He analyzes the idea of the human as posthuman… Read More ›