Ken Plummer - Critical Humanism

56 56 Cary Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism? (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), p. xv.

57 57 This idea is well detailed and discussed in the writings of Deborah Lupton; see her The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016); and Data Selves (Polity, 2020).

58 58 See David Roden’s Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge, 2015), esp ch. 1. I have drawn mainly on Rosi Braidotti’s three key works: The Posthuman (Polity, 2013); Posthuman Knowledge (Polity, 2019); and, with Maria Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2018).

59 59 Braidotti, The Posthuman, p. 65.

60 60 See Cunliffe, Cosmopolitan Dystopia.

61 61 Braidotti and Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary.

62 62 E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22.

63 63 José van Dijck, The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media (Oxford University Press, 2013).

64 64 There are many precedents for thinking about connectedness. The early work of Carol Gilligan was very influential – e.g., ‘Hearing the Difference: Theorizing Connection’, Hypatia, 10/2 (1995): 120–7; but see also Gurminder K. Bhambra, Connected Sociologies (Bloomsbury, 2014), and, on relationality, Nick Crossley, Toward Relational Sociology (Routledge, 2011).

65 65 C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1959).

66 66A wonderful book for children used in primary schools asks us to ‘imagine if the world were a village’ – children often learn the shape of the world through tales of comparative size. See David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong, If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People, 2nd edn (Bloomsbury, 2011).

67 67Richard Sennett has written an elegant account of the importance of this process in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (Penguin, 2013) – part of his trilogy of works on ‘homo faber’ and the ‘skills people need to sustain everyday life’ (p. ix).

Man was made for Joy and Woe

And when this we rightly know

Through the world we safely go

Joy and woe are woven fine …

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (1863)

Definitions:

To dehumanize: to make less than human

To damage: to harm and impair functioning

To disconnect: to break connections

To divide: to separate, to create barriers and walls

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