CPH Collected Essays

My volumes of Collected Essays on Critical Posthumanism are appearing in the CPH Brill series. The first two volumes contain essays written over the last decade or so (some are republished in updated versions, some are new and here published for the first time).

Volume 1: (Un)Learning to be Human

Contents:

The below are pre-publication versions of the chapters:

• Preface – Returning to Critical Posthumanism
• Introduction – Critical Posthumanism – Ten Years On
• Poststructuralism and the End(s) of Humanism
• Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography
• Rhetoric of the Posthuman
• (Un)ravelling
• Posthumanist education?
• (Un)learning to Be Human
• Originary Mediality, or, Posthumanism Without Technology
• Postfiguration, Or, The Desire for the Posthuman
• Perfectibilities
• Making Humans Better – Posthumanism ‘Beyond’ Violence
• Dehumanisation, or, Humanism Without Humans
• Bibliography

If you want to download the entire manuscript you can do so here.

Volume 2: Solidarities with the Non/Human, or, Posthumanism and Literature

Contents:

The below are pre-publication versions of the chapters:

• Introduction – Critical Posthumanism in Literature

Section I – Posthumanism Writes Back:

• • Shakespeare and After
  • The Invention of the Posthuman in The Merchant of Venice
  • Hamlet and Posthumanist Politics                                                                                                                                                           
  • Treasuring the Self-A Posthumanist Reading of John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”                                                    
  • Yearning for the Human in Posthuman Times – On Albert Camus’s Tragic Humanism

Section II – Animal Writing:

• • • Solidarity with the Non/Human
    • Uomini e no – Elio Vittorini’s Dogs and Sacrificial Humanism
    • Animalities – Milan Kundera and the Unbearable Lightness of Being Posthuman
    • “Not that I’m afraid of becoming an animal…”, Ecography in Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall

Section III – Life Writing:

• • Narrating-Life
  • Zoontotechnics – Cultured Meat, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Life after Animals
  • Microbes R Us – David Eagleman’s Sum, Jim Crace’s Being Dead and the Medical Humanities
  • Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and Zero K as ‘Posthumanist Literature’

Postface: Posthumanism and the Death of Tragedy

• • Bibliography

If you want to download the entire manuscript you can do so here.

 

To be continued…