Critical perspectives on theory, culture, and politics
Print version: Muller, Christopher John. Prometheanism : technology, digital culture, and human obsolescence. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 Critical perspectives on theory, culture, and politics ISBN 9781783482382
Includes bibliographical references and index
Thinking finitude, digital technology, and human obsolescence with Gunther Anders -- On Promethean shame -- Preface to the translation of On Promethean shame -- On Promethean shame (by Gunther Anders) -- Utopia inverted - Gunther Anders in the digital age -- Better than human: Promethean Shame and the (trans)humanist project -- The punishment of Prometheus -- Anaesthetic lives: joyful surrender to painful obsolescence -- The unsalaried masses: working toward a world without us -- Invisible monsters: your smartphone is an atom bomb.