Meanings
- Characteristic of or subscribing to posthumanism.
"[…] 'posthumanistic' approaches to traditional aspects of fiction." The Conference's title reproduced the doubleness of humanistic and "posthumanistic" : the first half of the title, "Why the Novel Matters," encapsulated the […]
1990, Mark Spilka, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex, page 3592 more examples
Posthumanistic education does not work in this type of environment, specifically because posthumanistic education requires individualistic mentoring between “teacher” and “student,” in much the same way as the Ignatian tradition of […]
2014, Brad Petitfils, Parallels and Responses to Curricular Innovation, page 117Literary critic and posthumanist theorist N. Katherine Hayles synthesises these new cognitive theories […] and AI. Hayles argues for a posthumanistic ontology of cognition that decentres human cognition in favour of a more extensible ontology that can be applied to all living and nonliving agencies.
2024, Blair Attard-Frost, “1: Queering intelligence: A theory of intelligence as performance and a critique of individual and artificial intelligence”, in Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, editors, Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences, →DOI, →ISBN
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