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A philosophical movement that questions the centrality of the human in understanding the world, challenging the assumptions of humanism that have dominated Western thought for centuries. Posthumanism argues that "the human" is not a fixed, universal category but a historically and culturally specific construction—one that has been used to exclude and marginalize. It decenters the human, placing us among other species, technologies, and systems rather than above them. Posthumanism explores what comes after humanism: after the assumption that humans are special, after the belief that we are separate from nature, after the fantasy that we control our destiny. It's the philosophy for an age of climate crisis, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and ecological collapse—an age where the human is no longer the unquestioned center of anything.
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