Beyond the Horizon of Media Ontologies: Instant Introduction

Abstract

The article in brief presents all the main concepts and problems the authors of the issue are engaged in, also the article contains brief descriptions of the articles. New anthropological, sociological, philosophical, political projects suggested by posthumanist researchers and united by a critique of «Human» necessarily include a critique of the anthropomorphic perception of technology and media as a «natural» environment serving humanity. All articles examine new forms of such a new agency, which irrevocably change the subject and constantly crossing the dualistic boundaries as human/non-human, artificial/natural, cultural/natural.