[FRIAM] PostHumanism/Modernism/Anthropocene

[Marcus Daniels]

I’ve been thinking I580 along the East Bay would make a nice place for sea creatures to hide, and a good concrete foundation for a bike lane on piers.  So quiet it would be without the cars.  Bring on the sea level rise!  

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> On Dec 20, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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> Here's my latest positive hit from Academia
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> Countdown to Extinction? - Posthumanism in Science Fiction
> 
> Raoul Guariguata
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> https://www.academia.edu/2061036/Countdown_to_Extinction_Posthumanism_in_Science_Fiction
> 
> I could rattle on for pages about my take on this, but the short version is that I found this *very* readable and helped me appreciate the role of postmodernism and it's relationship to posthumanism cast in the backdrop of a century (and a half) of scientifiction/romance writing/speculating.
> 
> Oh yeh, and also with the backdrop of the impending extinction-by-excess arc humans are on as we argue over when to *start* the Anthropocene when it is likely it is also about to *end* in the shortest-lived geological epoch of all time?!
> 
> @EricS Fermi Paradox indeed!
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