More than a decade after its first definitions, critical posthumanism has become consolidated as a key discourse for the understanding of our contemporary state of being within what has been called the paradigm of posthumanity, but also, crucially, as an ideology and a praxis that guides our engagements with the world around us. This double dimension characterizes the contributions to this volume. They resort to critical posthumanism in its most recent developments as a set of tools for critical and cultural analysis of our posthuman times, as posthuman(ist) concerns manifest in our cultural products. This volume studies the most recent evolutions in the field of critical posthumanism as represented in key novels and other (screened) popular cultural products produced in the first and second decades of the twenty-first century. Resorting to the analytical tools provided by critical posthumanist theory in cross-disciplinary dialogue with other fields—such as transhumanism, feminist, gender and queer theory, vulnerability studies, new materialism, critical animal studies and environmental theory—the scholars whose work this volume showcases bear witness to how literature and popular culture have been influenced and impressed by posthumanism.
Recent cross-disciplinary approaches to the posthuman: an introduction
María Ferrández Sanmiguel, Esther Muñoz González, Carmen Laguarta Bueno
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"“We are the borg. Resistance is futile”":: reflections, numbness, and transhumanism in the Star Trek universe
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“"A better future is in your hands”": transhumanism and feminism in the power (tv series 2023)
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Indenture rights for all: challenging the human status quo in Annalee Newitz’s autonomous
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"“World without end”": a reading of Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army as an eco-feminist postapocalyptic dystopia
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Outfacing the "“in”" face: the posthuman wound and the defacing of relationality in Joma West’s Face
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Beyond the human/nonhuman binary: fluid borders in A.S. Byatt’s onto-tales
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Reassembling skins and bones: indigeneity and posthumanism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
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Beyond the anthropocentric gaze: the nonhuman animal as object/subject of vision in cinema
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Phenomenalogy and the neo-apollonian: new critical proposal and aesthetic trends for the posthuman
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