A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
A collection of five vibrant essays on key thinkers of the 'posthuman': Haraway, McLuhan, Lyotard, Heidegger and Habermas - and Plato. It is introduced by Will Self, pre-eminent critic and author of a distinctly unsettling vision of posthumanity, Great Apes.