Science Faction

Science Faction, or, Posthumanism and the Critique of Technology

(Collected Essays of Critical Posthumanism III)

(End of 2025; I’ll be adding drafts of the chapters as they become ready, see below)

1. Introduction: Posthumanism “Without” Technology, or, Against Futurism

Strategies of Posthumanisation

2. Science Faction: Posthumanism After Science Fiction

3. Technogenesis, or, Towards a Deconstruction of Technology

4. Constructions of the Future: Ghosting and Financialisation 

5. Somatophobia: Transhumanism, Embodiment and Disability

6. Who Cares about AI? Vulnerability, Risk, Empathy, Love and Posthumanism

7. (Techno)Animism, Objects, New Materialism and Nonhuman Characters

Politics of the Posthuman

8. For a Strategic Biocentrism: The Limits of Life Affirmation

9. The Continuation of War and Violence under Posthuman(ist) Conditions

10. The Future of Democracy: Populism, Transhumanism and Cosmopolitics

11. The End of the World: Geoconstructivism versus Post-Anthropocene Cosmopolitanism

Afterword

12. The Nonhuman Turn and the Human Wars, or, Posthumanism explained to Children