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Bartosch, Roman (2021). The Transhumanist Creep: Posthumanism, Pedagogy, and the Praxeological Mangle. Open Libr. Humanit., 7 (2). CAMBRIDGE: OPEN LIBRARY HUMANITIES. ISSN 2056-6700

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Abstract

This contribution takes one of posthumanism's most powerful conceptual distinctions - between posthumanist thought and its ill-famed doppelganger, transhumanism - as the starting point for a critique of posthumanist thinking in education. Pointing to moments in which both post- and transhumanism become harder to distinguish in educational theory and practice, it utilises the notion of the 'creep phenomenon' to describe how these seemingly opposite concepts and ways of thinking can become unfavourably 'mangled' in everyday practices of teaching and of marketing posthumanism. It thus makes a case for the need for empirical thick descriptions of practices at the unsought intersection and overlap between post- and transhumanist thought. Drawing on work on the cognitive and affective impact of literature, it suggests that literature pedagogy is one of the places where such convergences are explicitly reflected and that literature pedagogy as a form of applied literary and cultural studies provides helpful insight into such practices of creeping overlap. Literature pedagogy, from this vantage, can be seen as an aid in formulating praxeological critiques of a prevalent practice-blindness in the field.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bartosch, Roman UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-563245
DOI:	10.16995/olh.4688
Journal or Publication Title:	Open Libr. Humanit.
Volume:	7
Number:	2
Date:	2021
Publisher:	OPEN LIBRARY HUMANITIES
Place of Publication:	CAMBRIDGE
ISSN:	2056-6700
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Humanities, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56324