Of Cats and Crones: Hope and Ecofeminist Utopianism in Leonora Carrington’s 'The Hearing Trumpet' by Mariana Cruz

“…This essay draws on Ernst Bloch’s notions of ‘revolutionary interest’ and the ‘Not-Yet-Conscious’, as well as on Timothy Morton’s concept of dark ecology in order to understand the transformative impulse that inspires the older characters at the helm of this narrative to overthrow the patriarchal system that oppresses them within institutional walls and to establish a posthuman, ecological society in a world entering a new Ice Age. …”
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Disrupting colonialist language to find knowing in praxis. Cultural Foregrounding and Intra-face. by Joanne Hipplewith

“…I present the conceptual terminology of i) “cultural foregrounding” and ii) “intra-face” to illustrate political and societal discourses about Otherness (colonised and marginalised) in a posthuman and, hopefully, a decolonised world. I show and discuss my internal struggles, cultural reflexivity in writing about my experiences as a colonised Other. …”
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RHIZOMATIC PATCHWORKS: A POSTQUALITATIVE INQUIRY INTO CHILD–ENVIRONMENT–RESEARCHER AESTHETIC ENCOUNTERS by Jenny Renlund, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Jenny Byman, Chin Chin Wong

“…Rhizomatic patchworks is an arts-based analytical process grounded in relationality, when posthuman theories and children’s storying provoked the researchers’ material and digital experimenting and thinking, manifesting in visual-textual assemblages through digital art. …”
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Care Ethics, Bruno Latour, and the Anthropocene by Michael Flower, Maurice Hamington

“…Care theorists are just beginning to address posthuman approaches to care. The argument here is that Latourian analysis is helpful for such explorations, given that caring for the earth and its inhabitants is the dire moral challenge of our time. …”
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Borderless Curriculum in the Post-Human Era: Reflections on the United States of America and South African Initial Teacher Pedagogical Practices by Bekithemba Dube, Elizabeth Campbell

“…The paper is located in posthumanism, where a borderless curriculum through technology can be positioned to respond positively to human tragedies such as war, systematic racism, human trafficking and conflict. …”
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DIS/COMFORTING SHELFIES: TRAVELLING LITERACIES OTHER-WISE IN DISRUPTED TIMES by Fiona Scott, Amélie Lemieux, Kelly C. Johnston

“…Here, we evoke the altered paths that bodies, objects, and ideas are travelling as workers curate, negotiate, and become implicated in ‘zoomentities’. This posthuman, trioethnographic (Breault et al., 2012) piece attempts to map these altered paths. …”
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Human and person when life is fragile: new relationships and inherent ambivalences in the care of dying patients by Cohn, S, Driessen, A, Borgstrom, E

“…Weargue for a reaffirmation of the concept of the person to accompany con-temporary posthuman and more-than-human debates in order to thinkabout “more-than” beyond a focus on the material.…”

Peak prostheticity: Westworld’s player piano and imperialist organologies by Waltham-Smith, N

“…It simultaneously functions as a key to understanding—and supreme exemplar of—the posthuman technological forms of life whose very existence precipitate the ethico-political dilemmas driving the series. …”

Les Méta-Barons, des cyborgs subversifs ? by Adrien Cascarino

“…The study of this comic strip, contemporary with the beginnings of the transhumanist movement, but above all with the emergence of an ambivalent figure of the cyborg (Haraway, 1984), highlights a certain representation of the posthuman body, which pre-dates current developments on the question. …”
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Human nature, transhumanism and digital transformation by Yu. Vorontsova, E. Postigo Solana

“…The limits of misunderstanding associated with the implementation of the radical transhumanist project of transforming human nature into a posthuman being through the development and implementation of biotechnology have been presented briefly. …”
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Epistemic Disobedience and Grief in Academia by Carla C. Ramirez

“…Departing from the decolonial theorist Castro-Gómez concept ‘hubris of zero-point epistemology’, the existence of an abstract and transcendental western universalism, where ‘the observer observes without been observed’ (Domínguez 2020; Mignolo 2009), assemblages of foreign female academics are explored through posthuman feminism and decolonial perspectives (Jackson and Mazzei 2012; Taguchi 2012; Puwar 2004). …”
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Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others? by Audronė Žukauskaitė

“…How does one define the limit at which this co-existence is collaborative and productive (“posthuman”), and beyond which it becomes damaging and lethal (in other words, “posthumous,” e.g., coming after life)? …”
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„Just human“ – Eine phänomenologische und philosophisch-anthropologische Perspektive auf unser leibliches Mensch-Umwelt-Verhältnis by T. Dörfler, E. Rothfuß

“…Until present, <i>Phenomenology</i> and <i>Philosophical Anthropology</i> play a marginal role in human geography as a source of knowledge of social and spatial facts, since the mainstream of theorizing the social and the spatial has diverged from approaches of social-discursive, socio-practical, symbolic, and – more recently – ‚more-than-human‘ as well as ‚posthuman‘ assumptions about the ‚construction‘ of the world. …”
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Sexuality and Affection in the Time of Technological Innovation: Artificial Partners in the Japanese Context by Beatriz Yumi Aoki, Takeshi Kimura

“…In this context, terms such as posthuman sexuality, digisexuality, and techno-sexuality have emerged, signaling possible new understandings of sexual, intimacy, and emotional practices. …”
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“THE DEMOCRATIC CYBORG PROJECT” OF JAMES HUGHES by Julia V. Khvastunova

“…In general, Hughes’ ideas remain quite radical, focus on the creation of a transhuman and a posthuman, and discard the existence of modern type people and their “outdated and too-human” culture in the future.…”
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Decolonizing Tropical Environments: Awakening Nigeria’s Indigenous Dance Theatre by Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo, Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen

“…The rich multiethnic culture of Nigeria points to the potential of Indigenous dance theatre as an Indigenous knowledge resource to provoke much-needed conversations and change towards decolonization and posthuman consciousness. Towards this future, the paper addresses the present challenges of Indigenous dance theatre as well as the modalities for engaging it for effective results in rewriting the Nigerian stanza in the colonial-enforced tragedy of the tropics. …”
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Transhumanism: The Epitome of Doom and Gloom by Noorulain Hyder, Muhammad Liaquat Raza, Azfar Athar Ishaqui

“…It is highly possible that humans will suffer from autocracy by the hands of the posthumans, since the posthuman age will certainly give rise  to  several  moral  di- lemmas, such as racism, which will plague the human world. …”
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Ulrike Draesner: a companion

“…</p> <p>Introducing Draesner’s major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essays, as well as giving an overview of existing research focusing on migration, memory, science, gender and bodily experience, chapters by international scholars in this volume also break new ground by focussing on visual culture, poetology, nature, the posthuman and Draesner’s reception of English literature and medieval culture. …”

Existential risks: analyzing human extinction scenarios and related hazards by Bostrom, N

“…In the case of radically transforming technologies, a better understanding of the transition dynamics from a human to a "posthuman" society is needed. Of particular importance is to know where the pitfalls are: the ways in which things could go terminally wrong. …”

Aging, biotechnology, and the future / by Read, Catherine Y., Green, Robert C., 1954-, Smyer, Michael A.