My argument is that today the critical posthumanities are emergingas post-disciplinary discursive fronts not only around the edges ofthe classical disciplines but also as o
What if we view the posthumanities as it's own evolutionary process? Much like the "Dawn of Humanity" film explained with human evolution, the posthumanities could be seen as evolving as a braided stream alongside the classical disciplines.
a set of technologically inter-linkedmaterial culture
This resonates with many of the other articles: Rickert's materialist rhetorics, Barad's materiality, ...
chains of operations thatlink humans, things, media and even animals
Cf. Muckelbauer and Hawhee's discussion, where "humans, animals, and machines [are linked] so intimately that it makes very little sense to attempt to distinguish among these three categories" (767)
convergence of virtuality/actuality and human/machine,
The need to categorize collides with situations where the lines are blurred, where categories abut or merge.
humans, animals, and machines so intimately that it makesvery little sense to attempt to distinguish among these three categories
There persists a need to categorize, classify, divide, arrange...
This need was mentioned in the NOVA documentary, where people so often wish to fit findings into neat little categories only to find that there are often overlaps that muddy the water (or 'braided stream', if you prefer).