ABSTRACT
If postmodernism is/was a condition and poststructuralism an academic theory associated with it, then one might ask what condition characterizes contemporary life and what emerging theories might be associated with such a ‘new’ condition? The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of literature on what is called a posthuman condition. The posthuman condition is characterized by a predicament that relates on the one hand to a historical moment in which global society finds itself, where the human has become a geological force capable of affecting all life on Planet Earth, giving rise to a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, and on the other hand relates to the fact that advanced technologies produced by humans might have capabilities of destroying all life on the planet (Braidotti, 2013). In other words, the predicament concerns how one adopts the positive dimension of the posthuman condition by embracing all of life and its interconnectedness, and at the same time how one resists the potential negative effects of advanced technologies (robotics, drones, artificial intelligence, biological warfare, commodification of the human body, ecophages), without being technophobic.
