Authors : Tammali Ramesh

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 10 - October

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26Oct441

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Abstract : Posthumanism has become an important critical framework for rethinking the boundaries of the human in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, ecological crisis, and complex human–nonhuman relations. Earlier versions of this study offered a broad theoretical survey of posthumanist thinkers, but a research article requires a more clearly delimited corpus, method, research problem, and analytical findings.

Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; Ecology; Human Exceptionalism; Posthumanism; Technology; Transhumanism.

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