1. Time, 3 January 1983, p. 3. I was led to this source by a passing reference in James Flint’s posthumanist novel, Habitus (London, 1998), p. 390. For readers’ responses to the Machine of the Year award, see the Time letters page of 24 January 1983.
2. Martin Heidegger, ‘Letter on Humanism’, Basic Writings, revised edn, ed. David Farrell Krell (London, 1993), p. 219.
3. I place this term in quotation marks because, as William V. Spanos has pointed out, the ‘naturalised “we”’ is one of the hallmarks of humanism. William V. Spanos, The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism (Minneapolis and London, 1993), p. 3. For more on this question, see Bill Readings, ‘Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital’, in this volume, essay 13.
4. Umberto Eco, ‘On the Crisis of the Crisis of Reason’, Travels in Hyperreality: Essays, trans. William Weaver (New York, 1990), p. 126.
5. Ihab Hassan, ‘Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture? A University Masque in Five Scenes’, Georgia Review, 31 (1977), 843.