Superman Myth and Posthumanism: Further Reading
Recommended Science Fiction Related to the Super Man Myth
Arthur
C. Clark, Childhood’s End
J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
C.
S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
A. E.
Van Vogt, Slan
H.
G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Bernard Wolfe, Limbo.
Recommended Online Readings about the Superman
Mark Adams, Last Judgement: The Visionary Biology of J. B. S. Haldane
J. D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh & the Devilhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/bernal/works/1920s/soul/index.htm
Edward Bulwer, The Coming Race,
Samuel Butler, Darwin Among The Machines
Samuel Butler, Erewhon, (Gutenburg) see chs. 23-25 and the last few paragraphs of 22, on Machines
Sameule Butler. Erewhon local archived version
G. K. Chesterton. Eugenics and Other Evils, 1922 (Selections for class in the first document linked on this page).
Francis Galton (who coined the word "eugenics"), Hereditary Genius
Francis Galton. Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, second edition 1907. First published in 1883.
Francis Galton. Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims. Francis Galton (and responses by others, including H. G. Wells). The American Journal of Sociology. Volume X; July, 1904; Number 1
Francis Galton. Experiments in Pangenesis, by Breeding from Rabbits, 1871
Francis Galton. Letter to Nature about Darwin's Gemmules
Francis Galton. History of Twins . . . Nature and Nurture
Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe
Haeckel, Monism as Connecting Religion and Science
J. B. S. Haldane. Daedalus, or Science and the Future
J. B. S. Haldane Two essayson C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis, Abolition of Man, Chapter 3
Friedrich
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book
for All and None http://www.literaturepage.com/read/thusspakezarathustra.html
James Tiptee Jr. The Girl Who Was Plugged In, file 1
---. The Girl Who Was Plugged In, file 2
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, The Reign of the Super-Man
Bernard Shaw vs. Chesterton Debate, 1928
Bernard Shaw. Man and Superman
Waddington, Man-made future, food
Waddington, Man-made future, man
Waddington, Man-made future, values
H. G. Wells. A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells. The Island of Dr. Moreau
Recommended Readings on Posthumanism
Neil Badmington, "Theorizing Posthumanism" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 10-27.
Laura Bartlett and Thomas B. Byers, "Back to the Future: The Humanist Matrix" Cultural Critque 53 (Winter 2003): 28-46.
Annette Burfoot, "Human Remains: Identity in the Face of Biotechnology" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 47-71.
Jill Didur, "Re-embodying Technoscientific Fantasies" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 98-115.
George B. Dyson, Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence. Perseus Books, 1997.
N. Katherine Hayles, "The Human in the Posthuman" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 134-137.
N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthhuman. University Of Chicago Press, 1999.
Teresa Hefferman, "Bovine Anxieties, Virgin Births, and the Secret of Life" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 116-133.
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Penguin, 2006.
Andrew Mara and Byron Hawk, "Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication" Technical Communication Quarterly 19(1): 1-10.
Bill McKibben, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Times Books, 2003.
Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Human Intelligence. Harvard UP, 1988.
Bart Simon, "Introduction: Toward a Critique of Posthumanist Futures" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 1-9.
Eugene Thacker, "Data Made Flesh: Biotechnology and the Discourse of the Posthuman" Cultural Critique 53 (Winter 2003): 72-97.
Recommended online readings about cybernetics, transhumanism, and posthumanism
Geof Bowker, How to be Universal: Some Cybernetic Strategies, 1943-70
Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto, part 1 & part 2.
Maturana, H. R. and Francisco Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Google Book)
Hans Moravec,
Dualism through Reductionism
Hans Moravec, Mind Children (Google Book)
Thomas S. Ray, An Evolutionary Approach to Creating Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life
Thearling and Ray, Evolving Multi-cellular Artificial Life
Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era
Peter Weibel, Virtual Worlds: The Emperor's New Clothes
Norbert Wiener, Behavior, Purpose and Teleology