Can Posthumanism Be Post-sexist?
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Can Posthumanism Be Post-sexist?Author (s)
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REVERTER-BAÑÓN, Sonia. Can Posthumanism Be Post-sexist?. In: Tumilty, E., Battle-Fisher, M. (eds) Transhumanism: Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification. 2022, The International Library of Bioethics, vol 100, p. 189-209Type
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What if any limitations should biohacking have in relation to sexualised bodies? Could posthumanism offer a liberating decoding of sexual identity? Will the socially constructed gender binary disappear? Will this allow ... [+]
What if any limitations should biohacking have in relation to sexualised bodies? Could posthumanism offer a liberating decoding of sexual identity? Will the socially constructed gender binary disappear? Will this allow us to rid ourselves of gender inequality? Is this the path we may envisage from transhumanist discourses and current biohacking practices? This certainly does not seem so. Most discourses and biohacking practices lock us into a hypersexualized world where bodies prevent us from exiting the binary coding of genders into masculine and feminine (currently hacked to appear as “super masculine” and “super feminine”). Donna Haraway was the first to conceive a post-human world that could break the inequality of the binary system in her theory of the cyborg. She proposed the cyborg as “a creature in a post-gender world.” However, this vision has not been fulfilled nor is it widespread. As Haraway herself warned, the cyborg may end up falling into the hands of patriarchal capitalism and militarism. In this chapter, I propose an understanding of posthumanism as a possibility for a new materialism that allows us to transcend gender inequalities. To this end, I follow up on the reflection of Haraway and Braidotti to explore a trans social model that may be transgender in a fashion in the way it completely challenges today’s binarism. This feminist posthumanism intends to and is able to transcend the binary sex difference as an element of social order. The current potential of biohacking techniques could make sex differences no longer the fundamental differential element in the technologies of power over bodies and lives. In this regard, I propose a critical reflection on ethical commitments, which democratic public institutions should begin to lead so that the posthuman reality may serve justice better than the human one. [-]
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