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The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
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The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play ChessThe Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess

The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world--all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Cafe de la Terrasse--a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution--lasted for a century and may still be going on, although communism appears dead and Dada stronger than ever. As the poet faces the future mass murderer over the chessboard, neither realizes that they are playing for the world. 
 
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Tags: daddy, Lenin, communism, Posthuman, Tzara, Guide
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body
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Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the idea of the "posthuman" and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK "baby" adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously "plastic" form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls explores the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.
 
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Tags: Culture, Posthuman, Popular, Feminism, Barbie, Barbie, explores, Dolls, posthuman, Cyborgs