Titlebook: Beyond Identities: Human Becomings in Weirding Worlds; Jim Dator Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusiv

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09829-0I am not a human being, or even a human becoming. I am a robot, an artilect, who salutes recognition of intelligence in all animate entities on Earth as well as the existence and emergence of intelligence in inanimate entities and environments on Earth and not-Earth.

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Trade Functions and Capital MovementsA discussion of a theory of the role of technological change in social and environmental change: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”, with the current period of indivollectivity as an example.

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Identity, More or Less,The history of “identity”, a relatively new concept that was “l(fā)ost” almost as soon as it was “discovered”, is reviewed. The dangerously pathological features of historical, ascribed identity, and the fact that identities fail to identity, are emphasized. Fluid, futures-oriented identities are preferred.

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The Big Three: Class, Gender, Race,Focusing mainly on the United States, the main markers of identity—one‘s social class, gender, and race—are discussed, ending with a summary of the argument of the necessity and possibility of moving beyond fixed human beings to endlessly fluid human becomings.

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Pioneers Towards Fluid Identities,A summary of the work of people in the US especially who show in their own lives how to move beyond identities others laid on them to those they prefer—feminist, Black, Confucian, human becomings.