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Parution de l'ouvrage collectif dirigé par Artur Matos Alves, Unveiling the Posthuman, sous forme de livre électronique (.pdf), chez Inter-Disciplinary Press.Présentation de l'éditeur :What does Descartes have to do with cyberculture? Are human rights as we know then enough for a post-human being? Is our culture being shaped by technology? What does science fiction have to say about the way we perceive our future? The haunting images of science fiction and fantasy – androids, cyborgs, intelligent machines, hybrids of all sorts – have seeped out of human imagination into our culture, acquiring the tint of reality, inviting us to a new effort of interpretation. This book includes twenty papers presented at the 6th Global Conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, which took place in Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2011.Sommaire :Artur Matos Alves, IntroductionPart I Posthuman Concepts: Placing the PosthumanHadas Elber, Visions of Humanity between the Posthuman and the Non-HumanElana Gomel, Posthuman Rights: The Ethics of Alien EncounterM. Luisa Gómez Martínez, Reconceptualising Space, Place and Body: Telepresence and Locative Media in ArtPart II Gender, Sex and Bodies in CyberspaceRaquel Botelho, Do We Really Die? Bodies in Cyberculture, Life and Social Existence after DeathAnn-Renee Clark, Cyberspace and Subversion: The Creation of Culture in Steampunk and Body Modification Cyber-CommunitiesClaire Cornillon, The Digital Body's Mantra: Man and Machine in Grand Junction by Maurice G. DantecTania Honey, Cyborgs in the Garden: Tales of Iden in Kage Baker's 'Company' SeriesAna Makuc, Pat Cadigan's Cyberfiction and Jessica Benjamin's 'Intersubjectivity'Prasita Mukherjee, A Gravelled Path: Historicizing Feminist Utopias/DystopiasKayleigh Newby, Feet, Silk and Sex: The Not So Secret World of Fetish OnlinePart III Fictions? Posthuman Societies and CulturesArtur Matos Alves, Total Machine or Homelessness: The Tyranny of the Artificial and the Limits of Politics in the Posthuman EraChris Bateman, Orthodox Science Fiction and Fictional WorldsFran McDonald, Wrong Laughter: Laughing Away the Human in Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2Daniel Riha, Retro-Future Societies in Woody Allen's Sleeper and Oldřich Lipský's Man in Outer SpacePart IV Cybernarratives: Literature and VideogamesRodolfo Rorato Londero, We See Cyborgs Differently: A Comparative Study between North American and Latin American CyberpunkLaura-Jane Maher, The Writing Writer: Fictional Autobiography in Claudio Sanchez' The Amory WarsDolores Miralles-Alberola, Quevedo and Góngora Fistfight in Virtual Heaven: Contemporary Cyber Poetry in SpanishPetra Rehling and Cindy Squires, Godliness in Tad William's Otherland SeriesJorge Martins Rosa, 'Through Other Eyes': The Other as an Extension of the Self in Post-War Science FictionAdam W. Ruch, Canon and Contingency in Mass Effect