{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"On Nietzsche and posthumanist philosophy","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2b725204\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2866,"description":"Focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day (including concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit) and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism—Edgar Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of posthumanist and transhumanist philosophies in his new book, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism. Here, Landgraf is joined in conversation with Christian Emden and Stefan Herbrechter.Edgar Landgraf is distinguished research professor of German at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Nietzsche’s Posthumanism and Improvisation as Art, and coeditor of Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism and Play in the Age of Goethe.Christian Emden is Frances Moody Newman Professor at Rice University where he teaches German intellectual history and political thought. He is author of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body.Stefan Herbrechter is former Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University and former professor of English and cultural studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is an independent scholar of critical posthumanism and author of several books including Before Humanity and Posthumanism.Episode references:Friedrich NietzscheCary WolfeBaruch SpinozaJane BennettAlfred EspinasBernard StieglerErnst KappCharles DarwinRosi BraidottiFrancesca FerrandoPatricia MacCormackTamar Sharon Reading list:Vibrant Matter / Jane BennettOn Animal Societies / Alfred EspinasNietzsche’s Animal Philosophy / Vanessa LemmMeeting the Universe Halfway / Karen BaradNietzsche’s Naturalism / Christian J. EmdenNietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body / Christian J. EmdenHow We Became Posthuman / N. Katherine HaylesStaying with the Trouble / Donna HarawayPosthumanism / Stefan HerbrechterThe Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism / Arthur KrokerInsect Media / Jussi...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}