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Record Nr.

UNINA9910590088403321

Autore

Dator James A.

Titolo

Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds / / by Jim Dator

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031117329

9783031117312

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Anticipation Science, , 2522-0403 ; ; 7

Disciplina

155.2

126

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Self

Technology - Philosophy

Science - Philosophy

Philosophy of the Self

Philosophy of Technology

Philosophy of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. What I am not, and why -- Chapter 2. Identity discovered -- Chapter 3. .The Big Three: Class, Gender, Race -- Chapter 4. BeyonCd identity -- Chapter 5. Pioneers towards fluid identities -- Chapter 6. Destination identities -- Chapter 7. Weirding world -- Chapter 8. Humans as synthesizers -- Chapter 9. Humans in the Holocene Epoch -- Chapter 10. Anthropocene Epoch? -- Chapter 11. What is a dator? -- Chapter 12. Indivollectivity Now?? -- Chapter 13. Technology, values, and change -- Chapter 14. Ad Astra!. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they feel are more appropriate to themselves, by deploring the damage done via claims about authentic identity. The sole theme of this book is “becoming



beyond identity”. We are not fixed human beings but rather perpetually-dynamic human becomings. As intelligence is enabled or recognized beyond the merely human, we should welcome our continuing evolution from homosapiens, sapiens, into many varieties of intelligences on Earth and the cosmos.This book builds from tiny ripples into a tsunami of examples from conventional identity studies, to Confucian human becomings, to apotemnophilia, to DIY biohacking, to cyborgs, to artilects, to hiveminds, to intelligence in animals, plants and fungi from the Holocene through the beginnings of the precarious, climate change-driven Anthropocene Epoch, with hints far beyond and throughout the cosmos. From a lifetime of work in future studies, anticipation science and space studies, the author balances frank tales of his own experiences and beliefs concerning his uncertain and fluid identities with those of others who tell their stories. In addition to material from academic and popular sources, a few poems further illuminate the scene.