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Dearest
Posthumans,
How are you?
We hope this email
finds You well!
We are honored to
share our
October Newsletter,
hoping that these news
will be of inspiration
to You all.
We are delighted to
see a growing number
of events and projects
dedicated to
Posthumanism all over
the world: Thanks for
being part of this
Community, thanks for
your Commitment,
Presence, and
Integrity!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global
Posthuman Network
www.posthumans.org
News
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL
POSTHUMAN NETWORK
Upcoming
Events
1. BOOK
PRESENTATION: THE
PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER -
OCTOBER 7 (WITH RICK
DOLPHIJN)
2. SYMPOSIUM:
POSTHUMANISM AND
WORLDBUILDING -
OCTOBER 9-10 (WITH
FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND
DAVID RODEN)
3. CONVERSATION:
RELIGION, SCIENCE AND
STORYTELLING - OCTOBER
13 (WITH DONNA
HARAWAY)
4. CONVERSATION:
BOTANICAL SPECULATIONS
- OCTOBER 21 (WITH
OLGA KOROLEVA AND
GIOVANNI ALOI)
5. SEMINAR
SERIES: TRANSMEDIA
ARTS - (from) OCTOBER
28 (WITH LANCE WEILER)
6. COURSE: WE WILL
DANCE WITH MOUNTAINS –
SEP-DEC 2021 (WITH
BAYO AKOMOLAFE)
New
Publications (and
more...)
7. NEW WEBINAR
RECORDINGS - POST
PHILOSOPHIES AND THE
DOING OF INQUIRY
8. NEW ISSUE - IMMORTALIST
MAGAZINE
9. NEW PODCAST - A
WORLS WITHOUT HUMANS
w/ PATRICIA MACCORMACK
10. TURKISH
TRANSLATION - COURSE
"THE POSTHUMAN"
Call For
Papers
11. CFP: POSTHUMANISM
AND MANAGEMENT
(Deadline NOV 30)
PhD Positions
12. PHD POSITION: POSTHUMANISM
AT THE EDGE OF THE
WORLD
Get involved
JOINING AND
VOLUNTEERING
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| REMINDER:
A WAY FOR PROMOTING
YOUR EVENTS / CFPs /
NEWS:
We have create an online form
that you can use for
promoting your events through the
Newsletter of the
Global Posthuman
Network,
which currently counts
with around 1100
international members.
There is no fee to
submit. All
submissions will be
reviewed and, if found
in tune with the
posthuman turn, will
be published in our
next Newsletter.
Please, keep in mind
that the Newsletter is
bimonthly, so if you
send an event that
expires by the time we
send the Newsletter,
we will not be able to
publish it. Thanks for
your interest.
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| BOOK PRESENTATION BY RICK
DOLPHIJN -
OCTOBER 7 |
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Rick Dolphijn
(Utrecht) will give
a presentation
related to his most
recent book on
October 7, 2021. The
talk takes place
10:00-11:30 (EDT) on
Zoom. Please see
link below to log on
or contact Mitch
Goldsmith
(mg1...@brocku.ca).
“The
Wounds that
Matter”
In my
recently published
monograph, The
Philosophy of
Matter; a
meditation,
one of the key
concepts is ‘the
wound’. Much
inspired by
literature and the
arts, this talk aims
to explore
woundedness in
different ways; how
wounds bring us
together? How are
we “born to embody”
our wounds, as Joë
Bousquet would say
it? And what is pain
teaching us about
the non-fascist
life?
Dr.
Rick Dolphijn is
an Associate
Professor at Media
and Culture Studies,
Utrecht University,
and a
Honorary Professor
at the University of
Hong Kong
(2017-2023).
He published widely
on new materialism,
posthumanism
and affect theory.
His monograph The
Philosophy of
Matter:
a meditation was
published with
Bloomsbury Academic
in August 2021
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| SYMPOSIUM: POSTHUMANISM AND
WORLDBUILDING -
OCTOBER 9-10 |
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OCTOBER
9TH: FRANCESCA
FERRANDO
In the first series
of workshops
Francesca Ferrando
discussed with us,
'The Art of
Posthuman
Existence',
consisting of "The
Composite Landscape
of the Posthuman",
"From the
Anthropocene to
Human Enhancement",
and "Posthuman
Healing".
In the upcoming
workshop, she is
looking into
Posthumanism and
Worldbuilding. Francesca
will also open up a
dialogue around
topics such as:
- ethical food
- climate
change-aware ways of
living
-
self-sustainability
- post-consumerism
The event is FREE.
Webinar LINK
Facebook page:
LINK
Link to Francesca
Ferrando's previous
workshops:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/.../francesca-ferrando-the...
Link to the
symposium blog page,
which includes more
information:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/.../symposium-and-workshop...
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OCTOBER
10TH: DAVID RODEN
David Roden: Goodman and
the World Behind the
Schemes.
The event is FREE.
Facebook Page:
LINK
Previous
workshops:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/speculative-and-unbounded-posthumanism-david-roden
About
the Author:
David
Roden's
published work has
addressed the
relationship between
deconstruction and
analytic philosophy,
philosophical
naturalism, the
metaphysics of sound
and posthumanism. He
contributed the essay
"The Disconnection
Thesis" to the
Springer Frontiers
volume The Singularity
Hypothesis: A
Scientific and
Philosophical
Assessment. His book
Posthuman Life:
Philosophy at the Edge
of the Human
(Routledge 2014)
considers the
metaphysical,
epistemological and
ethical implications
of the existence of
posthumans: powerful
nonhuman agents
produced by
human-instigated
technological
processes. Other
representative
publications include:
“Radical Quotation and
Real Repetition” in
Ratio: An
International Journal
of Analytic Philosophy
(2004); "Nature's Dark
Domain: an argument
for a naturalized
phenomenology" in the
Royal Institute of
Philosophy Supplement,
Phenomenology and
Naturalism (2013);
“Sonic Arts and the
Nature of Sonic
Events”, Review of
Philosophy and
Psychology (2010).
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| CONVERSATION: RELIGION,
SCIENCE AND
STORYTELLING -
OCTOBER 13 |
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UCCS Center
for Religious
Diversity and Public
Life presents:
Religion, Science,
and Storytelling,
A virtual
conversation with
- Dr. Donna
Haraway, Distinguished
Professor Emerita,
History of
Consciousness and
Feminist Studies
University of
California at Santa
Cruz
- Dr. Karen deVries,
UCCS
- Dr. Jeffrey
Scholes,
Dr. Haraway grew up
in an Irish Catholic
and Methodist family
in Denver where she
often accompanied
her father,
sportswriter Frank
Haraway, in the
press box at Bears
baseball games. She
studied zoology,
philosophy, and
English at Colorado
College and earned
her PhD in biology
at Yale.
After teaching at
the University of
Hawaii and at Johns
Hopkins University,
she joined the
History of
Consciousness
program at UC/Santa
Cruz. Author of both
"A Cyborg Manifesto"
and The Companion
Species Manifesto,
her
interdisciplinary
work draws from
biology, philosophy,
science and
technology studies,
religious studies,
feminist theory,
cultural studies,
and anthropology.
Register for
this free online
Zoom event HERE
For more
information, contact
Karen deVries at
kdev...@uccs.edu
FB: Estudios
Posthumanos
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| CONVERSATION: BOTANICAL
SPECULATIONS -
OCTOBER 21 |
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Botanical
Speculations
21st of October
10:30am CST
'Hidden'
Olga F. Koroleva in
Conversation with
Giovanni Aloi
Zoom LINK
'Hidden' is a
research and moving
image project on the
relationship between
hidden disability
and the
companion-working
plant. It marks a
new trajectory in my
practice that
explores vegetal
narratives
concurrent in humans
and plants, tracing
colonial patterns of
medicinal plant
travel in the longer
term.
Olga Koroleva is a
London-based artist
– curator –
researcher – forager
– lecturer. Her work
honours slow
practice and
self-care while
exploring ways of
non-exploitative
cohabitation with
multiple others on
this planet. She
works primarily with
expanded research
cinema,
and is the founder
of the international
peer group The
Political Animal.
She has previously
taught animal theory
at The School of
Art, London
Metropolitan
University. She is
currently a Film
Practice Fellow at
the Centre for Film
and Ethics, Queen
Mary University of
London.
Please explore the
following documents
and material kindly
shared by
Koroleva: Maria Puig
de la Bellacasa,
‘Chapter three -
Touching Visions’ in
Matters of Care
(University of
Minnesota Press) https://bit.ly/3uChs1l
Olga Koroleva,
Hidden
www.olgakoroleva.com/hidden.html
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| SEMINAR SERIES: TRANSMEDIA
ARTS - (from)
OCTOBER 28 |
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The schedule
for Transmedia Arts
Seminar at Mahindra
Humanities Center and
Harvard metaLAB for
2021-22 academic year
is now posted.
Check out the list of
events:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/transmedia-arts
This series onsiders
the intersection of
contemporary
art/theatre and new
media technologies,
taking up immersive,
multisite, and
networked modes of
transmedia
storytelling,
performances
instrumentalizing a
range of live and
digital platforms and
formats, including
social media,
augmented and virtual
reality, haptic and
digital technology,
visual and audio
mapping, human/AI
interaction,
algorithms, and bodily
and sensory
enhancements.
On Thursday, October
28, 2021, 5:00pm, the
first seminar will be
dedicated to: Decentralized
Storytelling – Where
AI, the Blockchain,
Code, and Metaverse
Intersect
Speakers: Lance
Weiler, Columbia
University School of
the Arts’ Digital
Storytelling Lab
We find ourselves in a
unique moment where
traditional systems
are being
decentralized. From
banking to retail to
education to
entertainment –
consumers, students,
and fans are taking
control. The
blockchain is ushering
in new opportunities
for storytelling,
collecting, and the
monetization of
digital assets. This,
combined with
advancements in AI,
gaming engines, and
mixed-reality-based
technologies is giving
rise to the metaverse
– a collective shared
space that has the
potential to bridge
the virtual and the
physical in unexpected
and powerful ways. The
rapid democratization
of technology has led
to a new wave of
immersive storytelling
that spills off
screens into the real
world and back again.
These works defy
traditional
constraints as they
shift away from a
one-to-many to a
many-to-many paradigm,
transforming those
formerly known as the
audience from passive
viewers into
storytellers in their
own right – enabling
them to craft and
collect the stories
and experiences that
surround their lives.
New opportunities and
limitations offered by
emergent technologies
are augmenting the
grammar of
storytelling, as
creators wrestle with
an ever-shifting
digital landscape, one
where story and code
collide.
For further
info click HERE
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| COURSE: WE WILL DANCE WITH
MOUNTAINS –
SEP-DEC 2021 |
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To think with
the immensely helpful
formulations of
Peruvian scholar,
Marisol de la Cadena,
‘We Will Dance with
Mountains: Into the
Cracks!’ is a course
in postactivism, “but
not only.”
This is an animist
festival, a
subterranean
convergence of
disarticulated bodies
desirous of a new
politics, and a
cartography project
set upon exploring
vast terrains of
failure as a gesture
of refusal in a time
when resistance not
only feels inadequate
to the task of
decoloniality but
programmatically
linked to the
continuity of the
status quo.
Inspired by Bayo
Akomolafe’s
construction of
‘blackness’ as a
magical
counterhegemonic quest
for cracks in the
Anthropos, instigated
by the African
Anthropocene, situated
at Afro-diasporic
sites of loss and
queer power, and
conceived as a
deepening commitment
to a politics beyond
state recognition,
this course-festival
is an effort to spark
an end-of-time
emancipatory,
decolonial,
trans-local vocation
of making sanctuary
that is heavily
indebted to the story
and emergence of
Candomblé
spiritualities in
Bahia, Brazil.
The course will
include lectures/talks
by Bayo Akomolafe,
teachings by revered
guest teachers, open
discussions with
panelists, exercises,
one-on-one encounters,
regional meetups and
local gatherings of
practice, musical and
theatrical
performances, weaving
rituals, and the
ongoing prolificity of
a research inquiry at
the end of time.
***
For three
months, on nine
Sundays, from 12
September to 19
December 2021 we'll
join each other for
live video sessions.
(Those without video
or internet access can
join by phone.) All
sessions are recorded
and temporarily
available for
participants.
The sessions are 3
hours.
Live Sessions are held
on the following
Sundays at 8:30 PM
India Standard Time
(IST):
12 September | 26
September | 10 October
| 24 October | 7
November | 21 November
| 5 December | 12
December | 19 December
7am PST/8am PDT (San
Francisco) | 10am
EST/11am EDT (New
York) | 3 GMT/4pm BST
(London) | 8:30 pm IST
(India) | 1am AEST
/2am AEDT Monday
(Australia) |
Please be aware that
the time of the course
will change mid-way
through for countries
with daylight savings.
The anchor time for
the course is 8:30pm
India Standard Time.
For further
info click HERE
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PHILOSOPHIES
AND THE DOING
OF INQUIRY
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The
final webinar
recording is
posted on YouTube
for viewing.
Talking with
Maggie MacLure on
post-philosophies
and the doing of
inquiry was a
lovely way to end
the webinar
series.
This
free webinar
series was a
year-long virtual
space on Zoom that
meets monthly on
the topic of post
qualitative
inquiry and the
doing of inquiry
inspired by a
range of post
philosophies. Each
session
involved one or
two international
guests who have
experience with
inquiry approaches
inspired by post
philosophies such
as posthumanism,
poststructuralism,
affect theories,
feminist ‘new’
materialism, and
postcolonialism.
Panelist
discussed the
following:
- How does
your
philosophical
approach
influence your
ways of doing
inquiry?
- What
does this
philosophical
approach make
thinkable or
possible for
inquiry? (so how
does your
approach relate
to more
traditional
practices such
as literature
reviews, data
collection,
analysis, and so
forth)
- What
are your
perspectives on
methodology(ies)
and/or methods?
How do you
envision that in
your approaches
to doing
inquiry?
- What
mechanisms could
be put in place
at universities
to help
supervisors
and/or
committees
support students
doing post
philosophy
inspired ways of
inquiring?
Check
out the
recordings at
the following LINK
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| NEW ISSUE - IMMORTALIST
MAGAZINE
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Immortalist
Magaine has
published a new
issue, titled "The
Dawn of
Superspirituality?"
(From the
Editorial Letter
by Dinorah Delfin)
Albert Einstein
once said, “No
problem can be
solved from the
same level of
consciousness that
created it.” In
other words, to
transform our
lives and
societies for the
better, we must
first transform
ourselves.
One way of
transforming is by
transcending the
limitations of
logical fallacies,
circular thinking,
and semantics. By
disrupting,
correcting,
rebuilding,
refurbishing, and
up-cycling one’s
mental faculties.
Do we learn to
validate, or to
challenge our
thinking?
Should tyranny and
misinformation be
censored? Or
should we learn
from radically
uncensored,
flexible, and
balanced thinking?
The
misrepresentation
of words and
censored
dissidents is what
leads to real
danger.
How can we reach a
consensus within
such entrenched
polarizations?
In this special
issue of
Immortalists
Magazine, we
introduce ten
mind- and
consciousness-expanding
articles on the
topics of
super-longevity,
radical
mindfulness,
transhumanism,
cosmism, and
politics.
Together, they
shed light on how
to improve our
health, critical
thinking, and
sound discernment.
We open
Immortalists
Magazine’s Issue
No. 10 with
Longevitist and
Olympic
Weightlifting
Coach, Sarah Ikerd
and her article
“Activating The
Ageless
Algorithm.” In her
piece, she shares
a set of easy
instructions to
activate the
process of healthy
living. The
science of
Super-Longevity
isn't just about
living longer, but
it is inherently
about
Super-Wellness —
both physically
and mentally.
Radical life
extension is
ultimately about
reducing suffering
by focusing on an
individual's
desire to live
long, healthy, and
fulfilled lives;
and by improving
humanity's ability
to survive and
thrive.
Check out
the issue at the
following LINK
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| NEW PODCAST - A WORLS
WITHOUT HUMANS
w/ PATRICIA
MACCORMACK |
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Philosopher
Patricia MacCormack
shares her insights
into how the ‘ahuman’
might provide a
solution to the
growing ecological
crisis, why
self-extinction should
be considered a
compassionate act, and
why antinatalism,
abolitionist veganism,
and occultism might be
our best strategies
for combatting human
exceptionalism.
Patricia
MacCormack is
Professor of
Continental Philosophy
at Anglia Ruskin
University Cambridge.
She has published
extensively on
feminism, the
philosophies of
Deleuze, Guattari,
Lyotard, Serres and
Bataille, posthuman
theory, teratology,
animal rights,
European horror films,
chaos magick,
Lovecraft and other
trajectories of
alterity. She is the
author of Cinesexuality (2008), Posthuman
Ethics (2012),
The Ahuman
Manifesto: Activism
for the End of the
Anthropocenethe
(2020), co-editor of Deleuze
and the
Schizoanalysis of
Cinema (2008), The
Animal Catalyst:
Toward Ahuman Theory (2014).
Listen to the podcast
by clicking on the LINK
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| WAITING FOR...NEW ISSUE:
POST/H/UM 6.
FEMINISM(E) |
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Post/h/um.
Jurnal de studii
(post)umaniste este un
proiect de cercetare
complet non-comercial,
o revistă
independentă, open
access, cu articole de
teorie critică,
filosofie și studii
culturale.
The new issue will be
published in April,
2022.
However, translation
in Romanian are
already available,
which include essays
by Susan Ferguson,
Marta Segarra and
Francesca Ferrando are
available at the
following LINK
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| TURKISH TRANSLATION -
COURSE "THE
POSTHUMAN" |
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This is the Link to
the translation. |
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MANAGEMENT
(Deadline NOV
30) |
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Theme of the
issue: POSTHUMANISM
AND MANAGEMENT.
NON-HUMAN,
MORE-THAN-HUMAN, AND
POSTHUMAN ORGANISING
Climate and
ecological crisis,
inequalities, the
pandemics,
migrations,
different faces of
digitisation, and so
on, and so forth. In
this day and age,
the world forces us
to pose new
questions about the
ways in which it is
organised, organises
itself, and is
managed within its
many domains. Above
all, such questions
concern relations –
and entanglements –
among various human
and non-human,
animate and
inanimate, virtual,
biological,
geological, and
other actors.
Management scholars
have become
accustomed to the
fact that human
cognition allows
only for partial
insight, which makes
the human
perspective a
privileged one. This
perspective
dominates not only
exploitation-oriented
trends, favouring
anything that makes
it easier for
(human)
organisations to
achieve their goals,
but also the
progressive trends,
like Humanistic
Management or
Critical Management
Studies, which focus
on the good, or on
the emancipation –
of human beings.
There are too few
questions about how
the world created by
myriads of
other-than-human
beings organises
itself without
actual humans, and
how more-than-human
actants arrange and
enact the reality,
stand up for their
rights, and manifest
their agency,
strength, and
dignity, undermining
the foundations of
Enlightenment
humanism,
anthropocentrism,
and other approaches
that take the
generalised and
omnipotent anthropos
as both a starting
and an ending point.
The call is open to
radical theses,
avant-garde
research,
unpredictable case
studies, fresh
methods, and all
things motivated by
the desire to open
management and
research to the
so-called new
humanities,
posthumanities, and
ecological
humanities. Authors
are more than
welcome to refer to
such reflections as
critical
posthumanism, new
materialism,
anthropology of
things, relations
and object-oriented
ontologies,
actor–network theory
(ANT), etc.
The deadline for
articles written in
Polish or English,
consistent with the
publishing
guidelines of
"Zarządzanie w
Kulturze", is
November 30, 2021.
Address for
correspondence:
czasopi...@uj.edu.pl.
For further info
click HERE
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| PHD POSITION: POSTHUMANISM
AT THE EDGE OF
THE WORLD
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University of
Tasmania in Hobart
is looking for a Phd
Student (a salaried
position of 3,5
years) to conduct
research on the
project
"Posthumanism at the
edge of the world",
supervised by
wonderful Dr Toby
Juliff.
The application
deadline is October,
29, 2021.
The project
description:
How might we image
and imagine the
posthuman on an
island that sits on
the 42nd southern
parallel?
Posthumanism at the
edge of the world is
a visual arts
research area that
seeks to expand
knowledge of the
posthuman through
critical engagements
with
interdisciplinary
creative
speculations,
experimental
practice-led
enquiries, and new
discursivities of
the
more-than-human/human-to-come.
This project
explores
practice-led and
practice-based
capacities to map
and imagine new
geographies,
developing new
possibilities that
build on existing
relations (e.g. with
Antarctica and its
Treaty System
parties) and
contributing to new
constellations.
Placing posthumanism
within these new
geographies,
ecologies, and
politics will demand
the asking of
essential questions
relating to
possibilities of
place, of peoples,
and practices.
We recognise
lutruwita / Tasmania
as a site of deep
ecology and future
possibilities and
encourage any visual
arts application
that contributes to
the advancement of
new knowledge
relevant to this
region.
Topics may touch on
one or more of the
following potential
avenues of research:
-New archipelagos of
the 42nd southern
parallel
-Redefining the
‘South’
-The
more-than-human:
interspeciesism and
place
-Inter and
intradisciplinary
conditions of place
in the imagined
future
-The jurisprudence
of the
human-to-come:
interdisciplinary
art, law, and the
posthuman
-Speculative
aesthetics in
extinction studies
-Hydrofeminism and
solidarities of
water
-Decolonising the
machine: AI, data,
and social justice
-Transfeminist
approaches to
bioethics
- Queering ecologies
as sites of critical
activism
Interdisciplinary
approaches to death
studies
For further info
click HERE
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If
you are interested
in joining the
community, and /
or volunteering,
and/ or forming
regional posthuman
networks in your
area, please
email us at: NYposthuman[at]gmail.com
Thanks for connecting
and sharing your
insights and visions!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman
Network
www.posthumans.org |
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