Being and Not Being End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy 2nd Edition by Richard Iveson ISBN 9781538188248 1538188244

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ISBN 10:  1538188244

ISBN 13: 9781538188248

Author: Richard Iveson

 Against the grain of many contemporary theoretical positions that indulge in delusions of safety and certainty, Being and Not Being argues that contingency is definitive of the structure of being itself. As a result, any predictions about the future founded upon present or habitual states of being are necessarily subject to possible error given the unpredictability that is the condition of all emergent forms of being. Rather than signal the absenceof an ethical dimension, this prior inscription of potential, which gives rise to profoundly unforeseen forms of being, necessarily invokes an a priori ethical demand that is common to biological and technological systems alike. This ethical demand transforms the ‘rules’ of critical and ethical engagement not simply with other, ‘inhuman’ forms of being, but with the future itself. Indeed, this ethical demand requires us to pose serious questions about the legitimacy and usefulness of any decisions made today on the back of predicted futures that erroneously presume the absolute determinability of all beings lacking the alchemical privilege definitive of life. As the exemplary figure of unfounded privilege, it is with Hamlet that the question of life ultimately ends, replaced instead by the extremophile as the figure of unforeseen futures that simply cannot be imagined in the present. To be is the potential to be otherwise, that is to say, to not be that which a given being is.

Table of contents: 

Introduction: Relative Reason

Chapter 1: Ends of Life: Death of Socrates

Chapter 2: Ends of Nature: The Question Concerning Posthuman Technology

Chapter 3: Ends of the Future: Contingency and the Life of Machines

Chapter 4: Ends of Thought: Mad Times, Hyper-Chaos and Difference More Radical Than Différance

Chapter 5: End Times: Physics and Ignorance

Conclusion: Ends and Endings: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

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