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Title
Beyond identities : human becomings in weirding worlds / Jim Dator.
ISBN
9783031117329 (electronic bk.)
3031117328 (electronic bk.)
9783031117312
303111731X
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-11732-9 doi
Call Number
GN512
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.2
Summary
This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they feel are more appropriate to themselves, by deploring the damage done via claims about authentic identity. The sole theme of this book is "becoming beyond identity." We are not fixed human beings but rather perpetually-dynamic human becomings. As intelligence is enabled or recognized beyond the merely human, we should welcome our continuing evolution from homosapiens, sapiens, into many varieties of intelligences on Earth and the cosmos.This book builds from tiny ripples into a tsunami of examples from conventional identity studies, to Confucian human becomings, to apotemnophilia, to DIY biohacking, to cyborgs, to artilects, to hiveminds, to intelligence in animals, plants and fungi from the Holocene through the beginnings of the precarious, climate change-driven Anthropocene Epoch, with hints far beyond and throughout the cosmos. From a lifetime of work in future studies, anticipation science and space studies, the author balances frank tales of his own experiences and beliefs concerning his uncertain and fluid identities with those of others who tell their stories. In addition to material from academic and popular sources, a few poems further illuminate the scene.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2022).
Series
Anticipation science ; v. 7.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031117312
Chapter 1. What I am not, and why
Chapter 2. Identity discovered
Chapter 3. .The Big Three: Class, Gender, Race
Chapter 4. BeyonCd identity
Chapter 5. Pioneers towards fluid identities
Chapter 6. Destination identities
Chapter 7. Weirding world
Chapter 8. Humans as synthesizers
Chapter 9. Humans in the Holocene Epoch
Chapter 10. Anthropocene Epoch?
Chapter 11. What is a dator?
Chapter 12. Indivollectivity Now??
Chapter 13. Technology, values, and change
Chapter 14. Ad Astra!. .
