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| Avatar Bodies：A Tantra for Posthumanism | ||
| 作者 | Weinstone, Ann |
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| 出版日期 | 2004.01 |
| 頁次 | 208 |
| 出版者 | University of Minnesota Press |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1.Series Title：Electronic Mediations Ser. 2.author inf：He is assistant professor of literature and new media at Northwestern University and the winner of the 1994 Chelsea Award for Fiction. |
| 關鍵詞 | 佛教倫理學=Buddhist Ethics; 現代佛教=Contemporary Buddhism; |
| 摘要 | An ethically-based approach to human relations for the media age. Otherness, alterity，the alien--over the course of the past 50 years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy，literary criticism，fiction，autobiography and real and imagined correspondence，Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other--whether technological，animal or simply inanimate--will we truly become posthuman. Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human–technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion，personality and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs and affects. Weinstone calls her book a “tantra”--by which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other，self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch. |
| ISBN | 0816641463 (cloth); 0816641471 (paper) |
| 點閱次數 | 227 |
| 建檔日期 | 2003.12.31 |
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