Posthumanism
Posthumanism is a contested term. In its technological variant — the version associated with singularity theorists, transhumanists, and Silicon Valley upload fantasies — it names the aspiration to transcend the human through merger with technology. Consciousness transferred to silicon. The meat transcended. The mind liberated from the body's decay. Haraway has been consistently clear that this is not her project. No, I'm not post-human, I'm compost, she told Laura Flanders in 2026. The cyborg was never a figure for transcendence. It was a figure for the decomposition of the myths of purity and autonomy that made transcendence seem desirable in the first place.
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A different tradition of posthumanism — associated with Rosi Braidotti, Cary Wolfe, and others — has taken up the term to name a critical project of dismantling human exceptionalism and opening thought to other species, environments, and kinds of agency. This tradition is closer to Haraway's work and has engaged productively with it, though Haraway