Brad Petitfils teaches at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. His research focuses on hyperreality and posthumanism and the ways these theories affect the undergraduate classroom and the development of young adults. He teaches First-Year Seminars and is the co-director of Loyola's summer abroad program in Paris, France.

This volume explores two radical shifts in history and subsequent responses in curricular spaces: the move from oral to print culture in the 15th century and the rise of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) who created the first "global network" of education, and the move from print to digital culture in the 20th century and the rise of what the philosopher Jean Baudrillard called "hyperreality." The resulting dilemma calls for a curriculum that highlights the key tension between Man and Machine. The proposition of posthumanistic education, then, is meant to help students discern their humanness in the face of the complications that come along with digital life.

Introduction: Theorizing in the Midst of Chaos 1. For the Greater Glory of God: St. Ignatius Loyola and the First Global Network of Education 2. Hyperreality: At the Threshold of Posthumanistic Theory 3. The Posthumanist Gaze: The Human Subject, Decentered 4. Posthumanistic Education: Teaching as "Awakening" Epilogue: Against a Pataphysical Future: The Will of the Human Subject