Palgrave Handbook Of Critical Posthumanism

Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I: Introduction
1 Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
Introduction
Critical Posthumanism: An Overview
Conclusion
References
Part II: Posthumanism Across the Ages
2 Posthumanism and Deep Time
Introduction
Anthropocene: Worlds With and Without Us
The Proliferation of Geostories and the Geologization of Posthumanism
Ancestrality and the Humanities
Extinction and Deep Ecology
Cross-References
References
3 Classical Posthumanism
Introduction
Classical Literature and Posthumanism
Becoming-Animal
Becoming-Monster
Becoming-Human
Becoming-Machine and Object
Classical Posthumanism and the Cognitive Prosthetic Turn
Logos, Pharmacological Interventions, and the Technical Construction of Human Fate
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
4 Early Modern Posthumanism
Introduction
Actaeon Ego Sum
Losing Face
Who Left the Dogs Out?
Watery Matters
Conclusion: Places We Haven´t Been
Cross-References
Notes
Works Cited
5 Medieval Posthumanism
Introduction
The Posthuman Beowulf
Monstrous Natures
The Medieval HumAnimal
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Future of Medieval Posthumanism
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
6 Posthumanism and the Enlightenment
Introduction
Humanism
Embodiment
Aesthetic and Environmental Awareness
Beyond the Enlightenment Subject
Enlightenment Materialisms
Outlook
Cross-References
References
7 Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism
Introduction
Toward a Romantic Critical Posthumanism
Romantic Critical Posthumanist Scholarship
How Did We Get Here? Romanticism Then, to Our Posthumanist Now
Two Strains of Critical Posthumanist Romantic Scholarship
Posthumanist Readings: Three Romantic Case Studies
Frankenstein
``Mont Blanc´´
``To Autumn´´
From the Nuts and Bolts of the Romantic Cyborg
German Romanticism
American Romanticism
Room for Future Work
Cross-References
References
8 Victorian Posthumanism
Introduction
Critical Posthumanism in the Victorian Era
Posthumanism in Victorian Scholarship
Posthumanist Darwin
Dinosaurs and the Victorian Museum
Human-Machine Assemblages in Factory Fiction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
9 Modernism and Posthumanism
Introduction
Modernism, Modernity, and the Posthuman
Feminist Aesthetics and Modernist Posthumanism
Conclusion: Thinking with Modernist Posthumanism
Cross-References
References
10 Postmodernism and Posthumanism
Introduction
Cross-References
References
11 Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction
Introduction
Early SF Into Transhumanism
Posthumanist Theory Through SF
Sf as Posthuman Theory
Cross-References
References
Part III: Technologies and Figurations of the Posthuman
12 The Monstrous and Critical Posthumanism
Introduction: Doing Monstrous Origins
Tracing Monstrous Kin
Queer Kin: Veering Off the Path
Feminism, Race, and Colonialism: Monstrous Citational Practices
Disability and the Animal: Non/In/A/Human Potentialities
Conclusion: Flourishing During Another Apocalypse
Cross-References
Notes
References
13 Critical Posthumanism and the Uncanny in Ian McEwan´s Machines Like Me
Introduction
The Nonperson and the Familial Other
The Technoanimism of the Other
The ``Crisis of the Natural´´ and Emergence
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
14 Colonial Humanism, Alter-humanism and Ex-colonialism
Introduction
Colonial Humanism
Racial Humanism and the Posthuman Condition
Postcolonial Critique and Critical Posthumanism
Posthumanism, Alter-Humanism, and Ex-colonialism
Cross-References
References
15 Cute, Otaku, and Posthuman Aesthetics
Cross-References
References
16 Aesthetics, Autopoiesis, and Posthumanism
Introduction
Mapping the Field
Aesthetics, Not Aestheticization
Systems and Subjectivity (Luhmann)
Beings of Fiction (Latour)
Cross-References
Notes
References
17 Digitized and Datafied Embodiment: A More-than-Human Approach
Introduction
Conceptual Approach: More-than-Human Bodies
Contemporary Digitized Bodies
Critical Race and Postcolonial Perspectives
Sexuality and Gender Expression
Conclusion: Toward a More-than-Human Ethics of Care
Cross-References
References
18 Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Posthumanism: Ontologies in the Critical Zone
Introduction
STS Ontologies
Meet Critical Posthumanism
Into the Anthropocene
Gaia: An Operative Deformation
Critical Zones
Experimentalizing the Terms of Engagement
Speculative Alliances in the Far Territory
Cross-References
Notes
References
19 Troubled Distinctions: The Soul in Posthumanist Perspective
Introduction
The Soul as a Distinctive Feature of the Human Species in European Philosophical Tradition
Setting the Stage: Greek Philosophy and Its Aftermath
Philosophical Speciesism: The Other-Than-Human as Soulless Machine from Descartes to the Eighteenth Century
Alternatives and Complexities from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
The Scientification of the Soul, 1870-1950
Clashes of Worldviews in the Formation of Academic Psychology
The Marriage of Matter and Spirit: Monistic Science
Reductionist Psychology, ``Parapsychology,´´ and the Undisciplinary Heritage of Occultism
Troubling the Distinctions in a Posthuman Era
From Soul to Consciousness in American Transpersonal Psychology
Kinship Ethics and Animal Souls
New Animism and Nature-Based Spiritualities
Cross-References
References
20 Home
Introduction
PlanetOur contemporary concept of planet Earth as object and entity was arguably established in 1972 when Apollo 17 astronauts...
City
House
Vitruvian Mantology
Cross-References
References
21 The Ahuman
Introduction
Definition
The Problem of Knowledge: Philosophical Genealogies and Hierarchies
The Animal That Doesn´t Care That You ``Am´´
Nonidentity Politics
The Ahuman and Art
After the Human
Cross-References
References
Part IV: Posthumanist Practices and Methodologies
22 An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape
Introduction
An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape
Design
Posthumanism
Scene One: Walking with Minerals
Scene Two: Un/Making Pollination
Scene Three: Flow Feelers
Scene Four: Meat Addiction Hypnosis
A Slippery Landscape
Who? More-than-Human Actors and Stakeholders
Where? Intimate and Geological Design Ecologies
What? From Materials to Matter(ing)
How? Posthumanist Design Methods
When? Expanded Design Temporalities
Why? Rethinking and Remaking
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References
23 Critical Posthumanist Practices from Within the Museum
Introduction
Collecting Stories
Case Study One: Standard Stars
Case Study Two: Spiral
Case Study Three: Invisible Revealed
Case Study Four: Silicon Sphere
Cross-References
References
24 Sound and Critical Posthumanism
Introduction
Sound´s Ongoing Undoing
An Emerging Vibrational Methodology
Media Archaeology
Ubiquitous Computing
Biotremology
Vibrational Ontologies
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
25 The Incommensurability of Decolonizing Critical Posthumanism
Introduction
The Posthumanist Promise
Field Note, July 2015
A Settler Posthumanism
Field Note, October 2019
A Settler Posthumanist Praxis
Waste: Field Note, Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), June 2019
Time: Field Note, Kingston, Ontario, April/May 2019
Money: Field Note, Peterborough, Ontario, May 2019
Conclusions: From Reconciliation to Reckoning
Cross-References
Notes
References
26 Accelerationism: Adventures in Speed
Introduction
The Origins of Accelerationism
Contemporary Accelerationism
The Future of Accelerationism
Cross-References
References
27 Posthumanism and Digital Gaming
Introduction
The Virturealization6 of Affect: Avatar, Agency, Immersivity
Detroit: Become Human - Emotion or Emulation?
Ludo-tragic Soteriologies of the Posthuman
Digital Games in the Object-Oriented (Post-)Anthropocene
Postlude
Cross-References
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References
Bibliography and Webography
Ludography
Filmography
28 Posthumanist Perturbations
Introduction
Unpalatable Prospects
Originary Humanicity and Posthumanist Performativity
A Methodology of Closure Methodology/Closure
Feminism, Essentialism, Specificity
A Brief Coda on Identity Politics
Cross-References
Notes
References
29 Critical Posthumanism, Justice, and Law
Introduction
Posthumanism in Legal Theory
The Human Versus Nonhuman as Concepts for Control over Law
An Inside Versus Outside Dichotomy of Law
A Descriptive Versus Normative Divide of Law
Reconnecting Law with Justice in a Posthumanist Vein
Cross-References
References
30 Affective Extractivism
Introduction
Technicity and Affect Regulation
Prehumanist Affect Dispositioning
Humanist Affect Dispositioning
Posthuman Affect Dispositioning
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Part V: Posthumanist Transformations
31 Literature and Posthumanism
Introduction
Literature and Posthumanism: Incongruities of Relation
Literature and Proto-Posthumanism
Literature and Critical Posthumanism: Positions and Positionings
Literature and Literary Studies After Posthumanism
Conclusion: Literary Posthumanism
Cross-References
References
32 Posthumanism and Drama: From Shakespeare to Climate Change Plays
Introduction
Staging the Posthuman
Drama and the Invention of the Posthuman: Shakespeare and Onwards
Virtually Real: Posthuman Theatre and Technology
Science Plays: Posthuman Subjectivities and Dystopias
Posthuman Entanglements in the Anthropocene: Climate Change Drama
Cross-References
References
33 Posthumanism and Anthropology
Introduction
Anthropology and Posthumanism
Anthropology´s Ontological Turn and Indigenous Multinaturalism
Multispecies and ``More-Than-Human´´ Anthropology
Collaborating with Fungi, Forests, and Humans
Speculations and (Post)human Trajectories
Posthuman Anthropolitical Imaginaries
Phenomenology, Anthropology, and Posthumanism
Phenomenology as ``Proto-Posthumanism´´
Husserl: Classical Transcendental Phenomenology of Human Consciousness and Essences
Phenomenology Problematizes Reductive Understandings of the Human
Critique and Further Developments of Phenomenology
Heidegger: Fundamental Ontology, or Existential Analytic of Dasein
Further Streams of Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty: From Phenomenology of Embodied Perception to Philosophy of Flesh
Patterns of Retained Humanist and Critical ``Proto-Posthumanist´´ Orientation
Posthumanist Anthropolitics
Post-Promethean Anthropolitics of Hope
Conclusion
Multinatural Conviviality in the Anthropocene
Cross-References
References
34 Geography and Posthumanism
Introduction
Geography Beyond Humans: From Environmental Determinism to the More-Than-Human
Introducing Animal Geography
Posthumanist Sensibilities: Neglected Subjects and Research Methods
Actor-Network Theory
Multispecies Ethnographies: Affective Ethnographies of Animal Lives
Performative Methods
Conclusions
Cross-References
References
35 Posthumanism and Psychoanalysis
Introduction
Science and Psyche
Dynamic Subjects
The Subject and the Environment
The Irony of the Ego
Psychoanalysis´ Machinic Psyche
Machinic Posthumans
Cybernetics
Working Through: Psychoanalysis Reads Posthumanisms
Working Through Discourse
Cross-References
References
36 Posthumanist Disability Studies
Introduction
Theoretical Orientations
A Research Project
Method A: Tweet Chat
Method B: Facebook Focus Group
Method C: Zoom Focus Group
Experimenting with Posthumanist Disability Studies
What Do We Mean by Assemblages?
Disabled Young People as Assemblages
Component and Expressive Elements
Connecting Expressive and Component Elements
Conclusions
Cross-References
References
37 Human-Animal Studies
Introduction
Problematizing the Human Animal
Cross-References
References
38 Posthumanism and Plant Studies
Introduction
Vegetal Enlightenment
Plants Are Not the New Animals
Community and the Language of Plants
The ``Plant Turn´´ Is a ``Return to Nature´´
Cross-References
Notes
References
39 Digital Humanities and Posthumanism
Introduction
The Digital Humanities
Critical Digital Humanities
Criticizing DH as Complicit
The Critical PostHumanities, Critical DH, and Critical Posthumanism
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
40 Environmental Posthumanities
Introduction
Environmental (Post)humanities
Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics
New Materialisms
Anthropocene
Extinction
Multispecies Ethics
Storytelling
Cross-References
References
41 Energy Humanities
Introduction
Introduction: Why Energy Humanities?
Freedom and Democracy
Modernity
Capitalism and Marxism
Power
Resource Extraction and Colonialism
Literature and Representation
Energy and Alternative Futures
Future Directions of Energy Humanities
Cross-References
References
42 Medical Humanities
Introduction
Posthumanist Medical Humanities
Posthumanist Medical Technologies and the Figure of the Cyborg
Posthuman Care
One Health
Speculative Fiction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
43 Blue Humanities
Introduction
Toward the Blue Humanities
The Tempest (1611) and ``Praise Song for Oceania´´ (2020)
Offshore Capacity
Beyond the Atlantic
Trajectories of the Blue Humanities
Blue Humanities as Collaboration and Connection
Cross-References
References
Part VI: Posthumanist In(ter)ventions
44 Language
Introduction: A Time of Turmoil and Transition
Language, a Mystery Impossible to Pin Down7
And the Word Was Made Flesh
What If Culture Was Really Nature All Along?16
Conclusion: Post-Critique or the Ends of Man?
Cross-References
Notes
References
45 Post-Vital Prajnaparamita
Introduction
Foucault´s Comfort, or De Nada
Trip Report: Posthuman Beatific Vision
Comet or Sky Hook? Kena Directs Crick´s Directed Panspermia?
Resonating with Rube: The Grace of Stigmergy, the Stigmergy of Grace
The Post-Vital Prajnaparamita
Om Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
Coda
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46 Posthumanism and the Ends of Technology
Introduction
Reasoning with Technology: Leibniz
Tending to the Ends of Nature
On Natural Privilege
Heidegger´s Challenge
Phases of Future Technicity
Instrumental Commodities and Future Machines
The Machinality of Reason
Making Sense of Machines
Conclusion: The Fallibility of Machines
Cross-References
References
47 Entropology
Introduction
Thing
Anthropocene, or the Return of the Real
The Prosthesis of Humanism
Entropy Is the Meaning of the Real
Dissipative Strictures
Negentropic Debt
Ideo-metabolic Production
Exo-somatism
The Instrumental Unconscious
Structure´s Dream
Entropology´s ``Inorganic Body´´
Techno-teleology
Xenocapitalism, or the Jouissance of In-/Completion
Cross-References
Notes
References
48 Posthumanism and Ethics
Introduction
Exclusive Ethics and Its Challenges
Centrism
Anthropological Essentialism
Subject-Object Dichotomy
Challenges of Exclusive Ethics
Inclusive Ethics
Criteria of Inclusive Ethics
Types of Inclusive Ethics
Critical Posthumanist Ethics Is Inclusive Ethics
Donna Haraway: Ethics of Kinship
Karen Barad: Ethics of Entanglement
Patricia Mac Cormack: Vitalistic Ethics
Rosi Braidotti: Ethics of Becoming and Affirmative Ethics
Karen Barad: Ethics of Knowing
Conclusion
Cross-References
Notes
References
49 Narrative and Posthumanism/Posthumanist Narratives
Introduction
From Frankenstein to Dead Astronauts: Science Fiction NarrativesScience Fiction Narratives and Posthumanism
Anthropocene Comics: Materiality and Disability in Building Stories
Posthumanism and Narrative Nonlinearity
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
50 Posthumanism and Trauma
Introduction
A Culture of Trauma or a Posthuman Culture?
Reconfiguring Subjectivity and Redefining the Human Being
Hybridity and the Encounter with the Human and Nonhuman Other
Informational Patters and the Embrace of the Machine
The Anthropocene and Eco-Trauma
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
51 Apocalypse
Introduction
Three Strands of Apocalyptic Thinking
Apocalyptic Anxiety and Posthuman Convergence
Futurity and Rupture
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
52 Posthumanism and the Anthropocene
Posthumanist Critique and the Anthropocene
The Earth System: A Novel Understanding of Nature
The Anthropos of the Anthropocene
Beyond the Human I: The Domus Complex
Beyond the Human II: The Technosphere
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
53 Animal Friendship
Introduction
Popular Conceptions
Friendship as Difference
Friendship as Absolute Responsibility
Friendship as Vulnerability
Cross-References
References
54 Ethics for Cognitive Assemblages: Who´s in Charge Here?
Introduction
Main Body
Ethical Effects: Data-Driven Agency and Interactivity
Moral Accountability Versus Moral Responsibility
Ethical Actors: Robot Ethics and Machine Ethics
Developing Norms for Ethical Actors
The MCAS Software in the Boeing 737 Max Airplanes
Ethical Innovators: Ethics and the Future of Intelligent Machines
Ethical Innovators: General Artificial Intelligence and Self-Aware Systems
Ethics and Cyber-Bio-Symbiosis
Cross-References
References
Index