Abstract
There has been a joint effort seen in 21st-century philosophy and cultural theories to understand and respond to the impact of current technological revolution on social culture and the existence of subjecthood. Slavoj Žižek has always placed his elaboration on and questioning of the two post-human schools and tendencies in his ideological criticism of digital capitalism. The common tendency between post-human thought of the Cultural Left and the singularity theory of trans-human theory is shown in the "Promethean shame" and the new myth of the human-machine hybridity. Žižek's works over the decades have always focused on the development of cutting-edge science and technology. Based on his criticism of the post-modern pluralistic subject, the post-human mixture of subject and object, and the digital "other", Žižek proposes the concepts of "inhuman" and "post-subjectivity". This shows the efforts of humanistic theories to intervene in the discourse of science and technology in the post-Sokal era.
First Page
184
Last Page
191
Recommended Citation
Liu, Xinting. 2020. "Reflections on Post-Human Discourse: Centering on Slavoj Žižek." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (6): pp.184-191. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss6/10
