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Topic: Posthumanism

Posthumanism is a critical approach that challenges the traditional humanist conception of the human, exploring the ways in which human identity, agency, and experience are entangled with the nonhuman world.

More on: Posthumanism

The podcast episodes provided explore various aspects of posthumanism and related concepts, such as 'disabled ecologies', 'the inhuman', and the critique of anthropocentrism.

The episode 'Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert"' examines how disability extends beyond the human realm, exploring non-anthropocentric perspectives on environmental issues.

The episode 'Ban Wang, "At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China"' critiques the celebration of post-humanism in some science fiction, arguing that it abandons positive aspects of humanism necessary for critiquing environmental and social issues.

The episode 'Inhuman' engages with posthumanist thought and critiques the concept of the 'posthuman' as still being bound to humanist terms, exploring how authors attempt to imagine inhuman worlds and futures beyond humanist frameworks.

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