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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Herbrechter

    1. Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Ivan Callus

    1. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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  3. Manuela Rossini

    1. Independent Scholar, Basel, Switzerland

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  4. Marija Grech

    1. University of Malta, Msida, Malta

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  5. Megen de Bruin-Molé

    1. University of Southampton, Winchester, United Kingdom

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  6. Christopher John Müller

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies
  • Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism
  • Highlights the ways in which posthumanism has affected the relationship between the humanities and the sciences

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Table of contents (54 entries)

  1. Accelerationism: Adventures in Speed

    • Benjamin Noys

  2. Aesthetics, Autopoiesis, and Posthumanism

    • Carsten Strathausen

  3. Affective Extractivism

    • Bernd Bösel

  4. An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape

    • Thomas Laurien, Li Jönsson, Petra Lilja, Kristina Lindström, Erik Sandelin, Åsa Ståhl

  5. Animal Friendship

    • Nicole Anderson

  6. Apocalypse

    • Florian Mussgnug

  7. Blue Humanities

    • Steve Mentz

  8. Classical Posthumanism

    • Giulia Maria Chesi

  9. Colonial Humanism, Alter-humanism and Ex-colonialism

    • Simone Bignall

  10. Critical Posthumanism and the Uncanny in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me

    • Pramod K. Nayar

  11. Critical Posthumanism, Justice, and Law

    • Jannice Käll

  12. Critical Posthumanism: An Overview

    • Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Marija Grech, Christopher John Müller, Manuela Rossini

  13. Critical Posthumanist Practices from Within the Museum

    • Deborah Lawler-Dormer

  14. Cute, Otaku, and Posthuman Aesthetics

    • Charlie Gere

  15. Digital Humanities and Posthumanism

    • Matt Hayler

  16. Digitized and Datafied Embodiment: A More-than-Human Approach

    • Deborah Lupton, Marianne Clark, Clare Southerton

  17. Early Modern Posthumanism

    • Karen Raber

  18. Energy Humanities

    • Lynn Badia

  19. Entropology

    • Louis Armand

  20. Environmental Posthumanities

    • Christine Daigle
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About this book

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, andtopics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Stefan Herbrechter

  • University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Ivan Callus, Marija Grech

  • Independent Scholar, Basel, Switzerland

    Manuela Rossini

  • University of Southampton, Winchester, United Kingdom

    Megen de Bruin-Molé

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Christopher John Müller

About the editors

Stefan Herbrechter is a writer and research fellow at Privatdozent at Heidelberg University.

Ivan Callus is Professor of English at the University of Malta.

Manuela Rossini works as the programme coordinator of the Developmental Science Network Zurich, an interdisciplinary Center of Competence at the University of Zurich

Marija Grech is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Malta and a Visiting Fellow of the School of Humanities & Languages at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Megen de Bruin-Molé (University of Southampton) is a scholar and university lecturer working in the UK.

Christopher John Müller is a lecturer in Cultural Studies & Media at Macquarie University, Sydney and an Honorary Research Associate in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

  • Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42681-1Due: 20 August 2023

  • Number of Pages: X, 1290

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Literature and Technology/Media, Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities, Humanism, Social Anthropology, Educational Philosophy

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