posthumanizm
Posthumanizm, often rendered in English as posthumanism, is an approach in philosophy and the humanities that questions the centrality of the human in knowledge, ethics, and culture. It rejects rigid boundaries between human, animal, and machine and emphasizes the entanglement of humans with technologies, ecosystems, and non-human actors. Rather than a fixed stage of human perfectibility, the concept treats humanity as historically constructed and contingent.
The term and field emerged from late 20th-century critical theory, drawing on feminism, animal studies, cybernetics,
Key themes include the decentering of the human subject, the agency of non-human elements, and ethical questions
Relation to transhumanism: while transhumanism generally aims to enhance human capacities through technology, posthumanizm critiques the
Critics argue that the field can be too diffuse or politically complacent, though supporters see it as