This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.
This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.
Sonia Baelo-Allué is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she currently teaches U.S. Literature and British and American Culture. Mónica Calvo-Pascual is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) where she teaches Contemporary U.S. Literature and British Culture.
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(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual Section I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 1. Before Humanity: Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming Inhuman. Stefan Herbrechter 2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach. Maite Escudero-Alías 3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online. Alexandra Glavanakova Section II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement 4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks. Loredana Filip 5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson's "The Belonging Kind" and Eggers's The Circle. Francisco Collado-Rodríguez 6. Subjects of the 'Modem' World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy's Satin Island. Margalida Massanet Andreu Section III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology 7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy's C: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society. Susana Onega 8. Don DeLillo's Zero K: Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation. Carmen Laguarta-Bueno 9. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement: Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan's Split. Miriam Fernández-Santiago Section IV. Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios 10. The Call of Anthropocene: Resituating the Human through Trans- & Posthumanism; Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff Vandermeer and Cixin Liu. Justus Poetzsch 11. "Am I a person?" Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy in Jeff Vandermeer's Borne. Monica Sousa 12. Posthuman Cure: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam. Esther Muñoz-González 13. Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall's The Migration. Sherryl Vint Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual
(Trans/Post)Humanity and Representation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Anthropocene: An Introduction. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual Section I. Theoretical Approaches: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 1. Before Humanity: Or, Posthumanism Between Ancestrality and Becoming Inhuman. Stefan Herbrechter 2. From Utilitarianism to Transhumanism: A Critical Approach. Maite Escudero-Alías 3. Posthuman Modes of Reading Literature Online. Alexandra Glavanakova Section II. Transhumanism: The Uneasiness of Human Enhancement 4. Vigilance to Wonder: Human Enhancement in TED Talks. Loredana Filip 5. Patterns of Posthuman Numbness in Shirley & Gibson's "The Belonging Kind" and Eggers's The Circle. Francisco Collado-Rodríguez 6. Subjects of the 'Modem' World: Writing U. in Tom McCarthy's Satin Island. Margalida Massanet Andreu Section III. Transhumanism: Trauma and (Bio)Technology 7. The Paradoxical Anti-Humanism of Tom McCarthy's C: Traumatic Secrets and the Waning of Affects in the Technological Society. Susana Onega 8. Don DeLillo's Zero K: Transhumanism, Trauma, and the Ethics of Premature Cryopreservation. Carmen Laguarta-Bueno 9. A Dystopian Vision of Transhuman Enhancement: Speciesist and Political Issues Intersecting Trauma and Disability in M. Night Shyamalan's Split. Miriam Fernández-Santiago Section IV. Posthumanity: Post-Anthropocentric Scenarios 10. The Call of Anthropocene: Resituating the Human through Trans- & Posthumanism; Notes of Otherness in Works of Jeff Vandermeer and Cixin Liu. Justus Poetzsch 11. "Am I a person?" Biotech Animals and Posthumanist Empathy in Jeff Vandermeer's Borne. Monica Sousa 12. Posthuman Cure: Biological and Cultural Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam. Esther Muñoz-González 13. Posthuman Transformation in Helen Marshall's The Migration. Sherryl Vint Conclusion: Towards a Post-Pandemic, (Post)Human World. Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual
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