ABSTRACT
Sport, as a social institution organized around understandings of the physical “human” body, is open to but has not seriously undergone a posthumanist critique. But what exactly is posthumanism? Although scholars have long been interested in ontological questions concerning the human in western philosophical thought, debates have arisen as to what work represents a recognizable posthuman shift in the academy. Given that much has been written about the human category prior to the development of a distinctly posthuman project, what (if anything) does a theoretical commitment to posthumanism offer as a means to advance or change our understanding of humanity? And why might this be an appropriate lens through which to reconceptualize sport and sporting bodies?
