Post-Self : Journeys Beyond the Human Body
Overview
Using extreme music and film as points of departure, Post-Self digs deep into the darkest thoughts of the most dissatisfied minds, minds that want to leave their bodies behind. Everyone is looking for a way out.Throughout history, the physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, rapture, or even death. Taking in horror movies, heavy metal, philosophy, science fiction, and cybernetics, Post-Self is an exploration of the ways that human beings have sought to make this escape, to transcend the limits of the human body, to find a way out. As the physical world continues to collapse around us, and we are faced with a particularly 21st-century kind of dread and dehumanization, Post-Self asks what this escape from our bodies might look like, and what it might mean for the future of civilisation.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781913462949
- ISBN-10: 1913462943
- Publisher: Repeater
- Publish Date: December 2025
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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