Author profile: Elke Schwarz

Elke Schwarz is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics in the ethics of international political violence. Her current research focuses on the ethical and political implications of lethal autonomous technologies and contemporary discourses on the posthuman.

Hybridity and Humility: What of the Human in Posthuman Security?

Elke Schwarz • Oct 10 2017 • Articles

A challenge in modern thinking about technology is the gap between the technologies we produce and our imagination regarding the uses to which this technology is put.

Hybridity and Humility: What of the Human in Posthuman Security?

Elke Schwarz • Dec 20 2015 • Articles

The speculative nature of posthumanism requires that we have some sense of imagination as to how our humanity might comprehensively be affected by technology.

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