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Yuqin Jiang

Abstract

Posthumanism, as an emerging theory in twenty-first-century technology and humanities, simultaneously challenges and expands the traditional humanistic conception of subjectivity in the era marked by rapid advances in information technology and biotechnology (post-humanism). It also actively explores new perceptions of the world emerging from novel bodily senses and forms (posthuman-ism). The cyborg, representing a human-machine integrated bodily form and cultural construct, reflects the evolution and development of human subjectivity. Cyborg subjectivity is a form of existence that spans the understanding of both transhumanism and posthumanism. It is a comprehensive and open sprawling form that embodies the integration of technology and the fusion of nature and culture. The characteristics of cyborg subjectivity are based on the new development of human subjectivity, presenting a new feature of embodied integration. This includes the fusion of human and non-human bodies, and the technological integration of the real world and the virtual world, manifesting bodily sensory cognition and its worldview through an interface. Moreover, cyborg subjectivity is committed to the systematic construction of a new subjectivity in culture, world, and materiality. As a result, posthumanism has emerged as a new mode of thinking and a paradigm shift. It introduces ecological and material dimensions into humanistic discussions, recognizes the encoding and decoding of cyborg sprawling bodies in broader and deeper time-space trajectories, and reconceptualizes the universe, the world, and nature. Cyborg subjectivity also responds comprehensively to the new technological world and the human self with an open vision.

Keywords

posthumanism, humanism, cyborg subjectivity, embodied integration, cultural-material integration

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