Posthumanism and posthuman: systematic review on a scientific bases

• Autor(a) principal: Casimiro, Adelaide Helena Targino
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Araújo, Wagner Junqueira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8661569
• topic: Posthumanism; Posthuman; Information Science; Information and Communication Technology; Pós-humanismo; Pós-humano; Ciência da Informação; Tecnologia da Informação e comunicação

Reflect on the concepts related to the “posthumanism” and its approaches by Information Science and other areas of Science. Were analyzed he articles on posthumanism indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, Scielo, Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA), Emerald, Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (BRAPCI) and Base do Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (BENANCIB) from 2010 to 2020. It is an applied research, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. It’s a bibliometric study with data collection and analysis the systematic review with the application of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyze (PRISMA). The results had 33 texts analyzed, gathered in 11 areas, indexed by 108 keywords, with 45 authors of the respective texts and 1124 references, being eight recurrent researchers. Posthumanism points to a perspective where the human loses its protagonism as the dominant being of the universe and develop partnerships with machines, animals and the environment. Posthumanism points to a perspective where the human loses its protagonism as the dominant being of the universe and begins to develop partnerships with machines, animals and the environmentThe results indicate that we are in a historical period in which it is not valid to raise questions about what we will do when people become posthuman, because we have already be in this reality, and therefore the studies should be guided by what we can do now to meet the consumption patterns and requirements of these individuals.