The Nature-culture continuum through moving images: from Pauline Julier’s Vegetable Pompeii to Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historiae by Neli Dobreva

“…In order to analyze the posthuman condition in a novel way, i.e., by way of research methodology, it would be desirable to approach artistic images such as Julier's through the recent scholarship of Durafour and his idea of “econology”: images as “beings-in-between”, making the link between human and non-human nature. …”
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Feminism and Finitude by Alessandra Mularoni

“…I then build on Rosi Braidotti’s (2013) posthuman theory of death to suggest an uncomfortable biopolitical expansion: a biopolitics for the Anthropocene should not only seek an equal right to live, but also an equal predisposition to death. …”
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"It’s some cannibal thing": Canada and Brazil in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy by Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

“…<p>Brazilian modernist Oswald de Andrade’s artistic and philosophical manifesto of Brazilian cannibalism best enables readers to grasp Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s trilogy <em>MaddAddam</em>, in terms of its treatment of settler and Indigenous relationality in its satirical posthuman world. <em>MaddAddam </em>is a work of speculative fiction that satirically predicts possible outcomes of early 21st century neoliberalism. …”
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Dwelling in the Digital Age by Antoine Picon

“…Secondly, how are these changes related to this different understanding of the human that is often dubbed as a transition towards a ‘posthuman’ condition, Thirdly, the least evident to address: will these shifts lead to the emergence of new spatial organizations and programs? …”
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The Politics of Vulnerability and Care: An Interview with Estelle Ferrarese by Liesbeth Schoonheim, Tivadar Vervoort, Estelle Ferrarese

“…She also discusses the political implications of her account of vulnerability and care with regard to a range of contemporary issues, such as the Men's Right Movement, the posthuman turn and the Antropocene, and mutual aid and the neoliberalization of the welfare state.…”
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I begynnelsen var treet. Økokritisk lesning av omformingen fra et stykke tre til gutt i Carlo Collodis Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (1883) by Nina Goga

“…Supported by ecocriticism, theories on the posthuman and characteristics of ‘the strange child’, this article examines how the illustrations in various editions of the Pinocchio story present the transformation from a piece of wood (nature) to boy (culture and nature). …”
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Assemblage Theory and Its Potentialities for Dis/ability Research in the Global South by Carlos Araneda-Urrutia, Marta Infante

“…In this article, we present some potentialities of researching dis/ability in the global South from a new materialist and posthuman approach. We recognize that Southern disabled bodies are constituted in much more complex ways than those represented by globalized models of disability. …”
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Encountering Bodies, Prosthetics, and Bleeding: A Rhizomatic Arts-Based Inquiry by Kelly Guyotte

“…I found myself in an ambiguous and fluid space between the paradigms of interpretivist and deconstructionist posthuman and ‘new’ materialism theories, and turned to arts-based research to research-create and think-with new scholarship. …”
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The More-Than-Human Trend in Design Research: A Literature Review by Annapaola Vacanti, Francesco Burlando, Isabella Nevoso, Massimo Menichinelli

“…The objective of the article is to review the existing literature on design practices and approaches that, during the last decade, have evolved beyond the focus of a single user and are thus defined with terms such as More-Than-Human Centered Design, Ecosystemic Design, Posthuman Design, etc. The outputs of the integrative literature review offer a clearer picture of the phenomenon.…”
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Digital danning: Dataspill som arena for selvrepresentasjon og lek med identitet(er) by Lykke Guanio-Uluru

“…På bakgrunn av disse funnene, og med støtte i spillteori, empirisk spillforskning og teorier om sansning og kognisjon, argumenterer jeg for at dataspill kan være viktige redskaper i ungdommers identitetseksperimentering, og at spillopplevelser kan bidra til nye former for posthuman selvforståelse.…”
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A Genealogical Analysis of Information and Technics by J.J. Sylvia IV

“…However, this analysis also reveals that Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of technics resonates with that of the Sophists, offering an opportunity to rethink contemporary conceptualizations of information and technics in a way that connects to posthuman philosophic systems that afford new approaches to communication and media studies.…”
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The performative experiment : a polylogue to practice the malleability of an aesthetic and spatial sense of self by Sivakumar, Akshita

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Cultural environments with more-than-human perspectives. Prototyping through research and training by Marie Davidová, Shany Barath, Susannah Dickinson

“…The complexity of the real requires methods that leverage digital tools and processes proposed to enable the design of more ecological, dynamic, interrelated posthuman environments. We argue that to achieve social justice, we must also reach environmental justice and become in synergy with the planet, with Gaia. …”
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The Beasts and the Beastly: Colonial Discourse and the (Non-)human Animals of Pantisocracy by Md. Monirul Islam

“…Considering critical theory’s interest in posthuman issues, the present paper revolves around the question of the non-human animals in Pantisocracy. …”
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Expanding the Galaxy. Designing More-than-Human Futures by Stefano Maffei

“…The birth of a critical ecological movement and the advent of the global transformation of post-industrial society, encourage the use of design as a generator of social value. As the posthuman perspective (Braidotti, 2013) embraces actor-network theory, new feminist materialism and object-oriented ontology, design is also incorporating a consideration of animals, machines, and other things in the planetary transformations. …”
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Locked in or locked out, or ‘la vita delle cose’: Gender, agency and (dis)embodiment in Primo Levi and Nicoletta Vallorani’s Speculative Fiction by Charlotte Ross

“…Many of Levi’s speculative stories narrate dystopian scenarios in which individuals express anxiety about the creeping power of technology which is reifying and automating their posthuman bodies, affecting their physical and psychological freedoms. …”
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A Non-Anthropocentric Approach to The Digital Writing : Some Remarks on The Agency of Digital Writing by Sung do Kim

“…In this regard, a non-anthropocentric conception of writing is needed to explain the posthuman literacy which is based upon the assemblages of human and machine writing. …”
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A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument by David Kipping

“…The Simulation Argument posed by Bostrom suggests that we may be living inside a sophisticated computer simulation. If posthuman civilizations eventually have both the capability and desire to generate such Bostrom-like simulations, then the number of simulated realities would greatly exceed the one base reality, ostensibly indicating a high probability that we do not live in said base reality. …”
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Toi, cyborg ? L’hybridation prothétique dans la nouvelle de science-fiction by Dominique Kunz Westerhoff

“…These prosthetic incorporations confront the cyborg with an strange sensorium, but also with the traumatic part of the hybridization : the disability comes back with insistence in tragic counter-point of the dream of invulnerability, less to be the object of a technological redemption than as a repressed aspect of posthuman ideologies. Through the cyborg leitmotiv, science fiction reflects also its narrative modalities, themselves prosthetic. …”
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Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts by Courtney A. Druzak

“…The novel’s use of the real fungus Ophiocordyceps as the more-than-human agent that inspires the transformation of humans into zombies provides a vision for how humans can more ethically relate, in posthuman manners, to a more-than-human world. Finally, this article considers the novel as a depiction of slow horror, or a gradual descent into apocalypse.…”
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