Global Science Opera: Enacting Posthumanising Creativity by Kerry Chappell, Oded Ben-Horin

“…The article considers the intersections of posthuman understandings of creativity, STEAM and global education and goes on to articulate GSO in relation to these. …”
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Carnivalesque, creativity, and the becomings: a critical assessment of the politics of resistance in Batman: Arkham Asylum by Anupama Kodencheri, Gandhapodi K. Chithra

“…Furthermore, the paper elaborates on the posthuman traits of Joker’s becoming through a Gilles Deleuze-inspired perspective. …”
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Actants in the ‘Object Donor List’: by Kusumita Datta

“…Donated by families and relatives of martyrs coming from various regions, or officials associated with the martyrdom process of an individual, containing personal belongings, paper documents, photographs, print media, they evoke new narratives of an archive in the framework of posthuman museum practices. These narratives are structured around the social intra-active agency, the political affect of the body-politic, spatial actants of the everyday cutting across classes and the space of the museum and the ongoing intra-active agency of actants as ephemera. …”
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A Plunge into Otherness. Ethics and Literature in <em>Machines Like Me</em> by Ian McEwan by Roberta Ferrari

“…The paper intends to explore both the ethical and the metaliterary level of the story on the background of the contemporary theoretical debate on transhumanism and posthumanism, pointing to the simulacrum as the uncanny catalyser of the major topics the author intends to tackle.   …”
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From the subject to the agent in social and humanitarian discourses of the 21st century by Penner, Regina Vladimirovna

“…In order to trace the development of the idea of agency in social and humanitarian discourses, the article is based on the concepts of modern authors who carry out their research within the framework of the so-called queer theory (posthuman by R. Braidotti, companion species by D. …”
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Motherhood and the Machine by Miglena Nikolchina

“…This trend unfolds under the rubric of “transhuman” or “posthuman” and of the “enhancement” of man. The second trend predominates in animal studies. …”
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Material Anomaly as Ecocide in Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red”: Epiphany in Ecological Precarity by Henrikus Joko Yulianto

“…Poetry as one literary genre becomes an agent of social change and an ecological epiphany in this present posthuman precarity. Ginsberg’s “Ballade of Poisons” and Dickinson’s “Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red” then serve as an agent to actualize epiphany in this present ecological precarity. …”
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Intimate worlds : reading for intimate affects in contemporary video games by Doyle-Myerscough, Kaelan

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Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies by Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole

“…Next, in order to narrow the focus of the discussion in this brief paper, we choose one emergent and popular theoretical orientation – posthuman Disability Studies. Then, we introduce and elaborate on four broad concerns that we think we should engage with; desire, alliances, non/humans and their implications for conceptualising social justice. …”
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The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities by Kit Yee Wong

“…The six articles—from Italian, German, Spanish, French literatures—explore posthuman female body-subjectivity; catalepsy as a framework to reorient traditional gender narratives; the violence of maintaining a socially acceptable subjecthood; the body as language in creating identity;&nbsp;the emotional-psychological coupled with the environment; and translation as an epistemic category. …”
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Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo’s Vision by Patrick Beldio

“…Mirra’s revelations include: 1. a posthuman vision of a sexless supramental humanity that is evolving now and in the future; 2. this evolution is coming with a cost: the mind and vital natures are being destroyed as we are going through an anatomical metamorphosis surpassing the one that yielded homo sapiens 300,000 years ago; 3. this shambolic process centrally involves what Mirra called “the psychic being” or evolving soul, somehow stimulating its materialization into what she called “the glorified body” in her early life in France. …”
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Marine Ecosystem Bodies as Entangled Environments and Entangled Laws: Drones and the Marine Environment by Gabriela Argüello, Matilda Arvidsson, Niels Krabbe

“…We draw on doctrinal and posthuman feminist legal approaches to analyze how UAVs interact with the wider context of “marine ecosystem bodies” in terms of international law, as well as how those terms may need to be reconfigured to accommodate the complexity of the many actors, agents, and materials of marine ecosystems.…”
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Unscoping animals by McGoldrick, Rosemarie

“…On these terms the human animal is as 'wild' as any other and both sets may thus meet each other on level ground. In any such posthuman utopian venture, a different sort of art practice may prove useful for new readings and interpretations. …”
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Synthesis, Antibacterial and Anthelmintic Activity of Novel 3-(3-Pyridyl)-oxazolidinone-5-methyl Ester Derivatives by Bo Jin, Jia-yi Chen, Zun-lai Sheng, Meng-qing Sun, Hong-liang Yang

“…In addition, anthelmintic activity of these compounds was also evaluated against adult Indian earthworms (<i>Pheretima posthuman</i>). The results showed that compound <b>11b</b> had the best effect. …”
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Pets that Have ‘Something Inside’: The Material Politics of in/Animacy and Queer Kin within the Childhood Menagerie by Riikka Hohti, Jayne Osgood

“…These processes create a shift in understanding what matters in children’s lives and how materiality and affective forces co-constitute the posthuman family. This paper engages critically with the ambivalences and tensions that emerge within the domestic menagerie and extend to a planetary scale in ways that are inherently political.…”
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Underground Manchester as urban palimpsest in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) by Claire Wrobel

“…The constant shifts between the nineteenth century and the present time reflect Winterson’s conviction that Shelley’s novel is a prophecy announcing the advent of the posthuman. Drawing on the collection of essays which Winterson recently published under the title 12 Bytes. …”
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Laruelle Qua Stiegler: On Non-Marxism and the Transindividual by Ekin Erkan

“…In turn, this paper seeks to survey some of the contemporary theorists drawing from Stiegler (Yuk Hui, Alexander Wilson and Daniel Ross) and Laruelle (Anne-Françoise Schmidt, Gilles Grelet, Ray Brassier, Katerina Kolozova, John Ó Maoilearca and Jonathan Fardy) to examine political discourse regarding the posthuman and non-human, with a particular interest in Kolozova’s unified theory of standard philosophy and Capital. …”
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Enhancing humanity: co-creation and the moral imagination by Lorrimar, V

“…A constructive theological anthropology that unites the strengths of Hefner’s and Tolkien’s models is sketched out, drawing on contemporary scholarship in metaphor studies, phenomenology and posthuman discourse, with a view to engaging debates surrounding human enhancement.…”

Monte Carlo model of brain emulation development by Sandberg, A

“…However, should such a technology ever become feasible there are good reasons to expect the consequences to be dramatic4 : it would enable software intelligence, copyable human capital, new ethical problems, and (depending on philosophical outlook) immortality and a posthuman species. Even if one does not ascribe a high probability to WBE being ever feasible it makes sense to watch for trends indicating that it may be emerging, since adapting to its emergence may require significant early and global effort taking decades5.…”

Ethical principles for artificial intelligence in K-12 education by Catherine Adams, Patti Pente, Gillian Lemermeyer, Geoffrey Rockwell

“…Our analysis also calls for a decolonized “humanized posthuman” ethic able to address the intensifying human-AI collaborative environment in classrooms, and able to weigh the complex indications and contraindications for children's and youth's cognitive, social-emotional, physical, cultural and political development.…”
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