Realist Responses to Post-Human Society: Ex Machina

Ismael Al-Amoudi is Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Ontology. He is Associate Professor in Organisational Studies at Cardiff Business School. His work spans across anthropology, management studies, political philosophy, social theory and sociology. One recurring theme in his research concerns the nature of social norms and the basic processes through which they are legitimated or contested. Another recurring theme concerns the contribution of ontology to the human and social sciences. Recent publications include articles in the British Journal of Sociology; Business Ethics Quarterly; Human Relations; Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour; Organization and Organization Studies.Jamie Morgan is Professor of Economic Sociology at Leeds Beckett University. He coedits the Real World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. He has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology, and international politics. His recent books include Trumponomics: Causes and consequences (co-edited with E. Fullbrook, 2017); What is neoclassical economics? (2015); and Piketty’s capital in the twenty-first century (co-edited with E. Fullbrook, 2014).

• List of Contributors1. Introduction: Post-humanism in Morphogenic Societies (Ismael Al-Amoudi and Jamie Morgan)2. Bodies, Persons and Human Enhancement; Why these distinctions matter (Margaret S. Archer)3. Vulcans, Klingons, and Humans: What Does Humanism Encompass? (Douglas V. Porpora)4. Transcending the Human: Why, Where, and How? (Pierpaolo Donati)5. Yesterday’s tomorrow today: Turing, Searle and the contested significance of Artificial Intelligence (Jamie Morgan)6. Trans-Human (Life-)Time: Emergent Biographies and the ‘Deep Change’ in Personal Reflexivity (Andrea M. Maccarini)7. The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism (Mark Carrigan)8. Management and dehumanisation in Late Modernity (Ismael Al-Amoudi)Index