If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.N. Katherine Hayles
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The posthumanism of the twenty-first century will differ from its twentieth-century predecessors by transcending the limitations of a single species and embracing a more complex conception of the human organism. It will recognize that our biological body is not the ground of being but rather one of many possible versions of it. It will recognize the dangers of disembodiment, will be less concerned with an idealized form of immortality, and will embrace what it is to be human in all its complexity, including finitude.
Source: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies In Cybernetics, Literature, And Informatics
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