My volumes of Collected Essays on Critical Pposthumanism 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:
- 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 – Posthumanism and Language
- (Un)Ravelling
- Posthumanist Education?
- (Un)Learning to be Human
- Posthumanism without Technology, or, How the Media Made Us Post/Human: From Originary Technicity to Originary Mediality
- Postfiguration
- Perfectibilities
- Making Humans Better: Posthumanism ‘Beyond’ Violence
- Conclusion: Humanism without Humans
Volume 2: Solidarities with the Non/Human, or, Posthumanism and Literature
Contents:
- Introduction: Critical Posthumanism and Literature
- Section I – Posthumanism Writes Back:
- Shakespeare and After
- The Invention of the Posthuman in The Merchant of Venice – “…a passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable…”
- 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 was 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 and 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
To be continued…
