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- catalog abstract ""Otherness, alterity, the alien - over the course of the past fifty years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, autobiography, and real and imaging correspondence, Ann Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other - whether technological, animal, or simply inanimate - will we truly become posthuman." "Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human-technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs, and affects." "Weinstone calls her book a "tantra"--By which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other, self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13212894.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Otherness, alterity, the alien - over the course of the past fifty years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, autobiography, and real and imaging correspondence, Ann Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other - whether technological, animal, or simply inanimate - will we truly become posthuman."".
- catalog description ""Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human-technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs, and affects."".
- catalog description ""Weinstone calls her book a "tantra"--By which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other, self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).".
- catalog description "[Actual symbol not reproducible] Pleasure [Psi] -- [Psi] Every Relation but One: Part I -- [Psi] (Post)Humanism [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Suspension -- [Psi] Deconstruction and Posthumanism? [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Nonphilosophy [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible][Psi] Tidal Kneeplay [Psi][actual symbol not reproducible] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Deleuze and Derrida: You Are Other [Psi] -- [Psi] To Have -- To Belong [actual symbol not reproducible] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Fiora Raggi Kneeplay -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Tantra for Posthumanism [Psi] -- [Psi] Speaking of Assimilation [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Avatar Bodies [Psi].".
- catalog extent "xii, 227 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816641463 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816641471 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Electronic mediations ; v. 10".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog subject "128 22".
- catalog subject "BD450 .W445 2004".
- catalog subject "Human body (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Humanism.".
- catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Actual symbol not reproducible] Pleasure [Psi] -- [Psi] Every Relation but One: Part I -- [Psi] (Post)Humanism [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Suspension -- [Psi] Deconstruction and Posthumanism? [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Nonphilosophy [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible][Psi] Tidal Kneeplay [Psi][actual symbol not reproducible] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Deleuze and Derrida: You Are Other [Psi] -- [Psi] To Have -- To Belong [actual symbol not reproducible] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Fiora Raggi Kneeplay -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Tantra for Posthumanism [Psi] -- [Psi] Speaking of Assimilation [Psi] -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Avatar Bodies [Psi].".
- catalog title "Avatar bodies : a tantra for posthumanism / Ann Weinstone.".
- catalog type "text".