These movements tease apart the human/nonhuman binary through their use of transhuman figures. This approach fully materializes later in 20th century Postmodern and Posthumanist thinking, with the likes of theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and biologist Julian Huxley, who coined the term “transhumanism” in his essay of the same name. Just as Postmodernist thinking argues for the necessity of deconstructing categories and the ways of thinking built upon them, Futurism and Vorticism’s categorization as Modernist must be rethought. In the same way that the transhuman is neither human nor machine and at the same time human and machine, Futurism and Vorticism are neither Modern nor Postmodern, while at the same time both Modern and Postmodern, calling into question the accuracy of established traditions of art and
These movements tease apart the human/nonhuman binary through their use of transhuman figures. This approach fully materializes later in 20th century Postmodern and Posthumanist thinking, with the likes of theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and biologist Julian Huxley, who coined the term “transhumanism” in his essay of the same name. Just as Postmodernist thinking argues for the necessity of deconstructing categories and the ways of thinking built upon them, Futurism and Vorticism’s categorization as Modernist must be rethought. In the same way that the transhuman is neither human nor machine and at the same time human and machine, Futurism and Vorticism are neither Modern nor Postmodern, while at the same time both Modern and Postmodern, calling into question the accuracy of established traditions of art and