The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television

In an age characterised by an increasing integration of advanced technology into our everyday lives, posthumanism has developed into a major intellectual force. It affects research agendas, economic developments, social policies, philosophical theories, and ultimately the way we understand ourselves. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of posthumanism and how they are represented, discussed and exemplified in the cultural medium of film and television. Understood broadly as any critical engagement with the possibility that the human condition is no longer a given, that it is more fluid than we once thought, and that we are, or will soon be, free to remould our constitutive framework and value systems, posthumanism is the next step in critical engagement in the humanities. It reflects upon the malleability of the human condition and acknowledges the fact that we are no longer the beings we thought we were, and that perhaps we never were.

Michael Hauskeller teaches Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK.

Thomas D. Philbeck is Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Curtis D. Carbonell teaches Literary Studies and Science Fiction Studies at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. They share an interest in the intersection of the sciences and the humanities and on how technology is changing what it means to be human.