... battles the Buddha. This inverted narrative structure lends the film a planetary ethics of feeling and connection between human and nonhuman life. Through Sino-enchantment as an interpretive lens, this chapter rethinks love and compassion in a posthuman era, thus making Journey to the West...

... energy systems togetherness transformation algorithm amplitude attunement complexity theatre acceleration chaos digital assemblage Descartes R enunciation psychoanalysis vectors aesthetic ontogenetic phenomenology universe vectorial Posthuman topology pragmatism process philosophy...

...The paper examines the connection between affect and technology in Not I. Beginning with a discussion of the ‘invisible microphone’ mentioned in the stage directions, it traces the production of a posthuman affect in the play's presentation of a technologically inflected voice...

..., the chapter, following the contemporary quest for a better understanding of this model of reality, offers a profound insight into contemporary thinking and creating architecture in this new framework defined as posthuman. As architecture throughout its history has always been defined on the basis of a certain...

... to drama productions in film and television and to contemporary practices in virtual and cyber-archaeology serve to construct the events and people of the distant past within a distinctive posthuman world. At a moment when digital tools are increasingly central to how the imagined past is rendered...

... of nineteenth-century conceptualisations of orphanhood and kinship, seen in, but not limited to, work on the posthuman and neo-Victorian texts. Read collectively, the chapters explore how orphan characters (both child and adult) contribute to discourses of gender, home, family, law, inheritance, class...

... architecture emerge. The book is at the forefront of the current contemplation on matter and its significance for and within architecture. The premise is that matter in posthuman times has to be rethought in the rich and multifaceted context of contemporary computational architecture, and in the systemic...

... the interplay between simulation and dispersal in Darrieussecq’s work, relating this to a posthuman vision of the contemporary world within which consciousness is figured in terms of flux and folds. The chapter shows how Darrieussecq’s conceptually inventive writing illuminates Deleuzian notions of becoming...

... Mimi Hadžihalilović parents colour Dark Touch De Van domestic violence violence System Crasher Fingscheidt Family Kedar political violence alien pregnancy ‘Blood Child’ Butler Evolution Hadžihalilović male pregnancy non human motherhood posthuman pregnancy Squid Cinema from Hell Brown...

... Huxley Aldous Brave New World Dick Philip K A Scanner Darkly DNA authentic identity Inauthentic identity posthuman robot replicant big data A Clockwork Orange I, Robot We’ve become bored with watching actors give us phoney emotions. We’re tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While...

...In 1999, N. Katherine Hayles argued that ‘we are all posthuman now’ owing to our daily interactions with intelligent machines. If moral panics about the time teenagers spend with screen media are to be believed, then present-day adolescents may have evolved into another life form entirely.1...

.... Rather than squashing herself into a Shakespearean “Flat Stanley,” Q1 Ofelia instead strews dimensional traces of herself throughout the landscape, a tangible and tradable memento vivere of the life she actively unmakes. As such, Ofelia contours herself into a posthuman figuration through the compulsion...

... as a containable biological weapon, the later films depict the biologically created disease as inevitably leading to a global pandemic and, in the concluding film, an apocalyptic, posthuman transformation. The franchise shifts from a clichéd critique of global capitalism to an endorsement for evolutionary change...

... Christianity Alain Badiou human posthuman animal L’homme est un animal enfermé à l’extérieur de sa cage. Il s’agite hors de soi. Valéry, Œuvres complètes ¹ For Alain Badiou the twentieth century was ‘haunted by the idea of changing man, of creating a new man’ (S...

... Deterritorialisation Affect Assemblage Capitalism Lingis A Pornography Williams L Klein M Partial objects Repetition Grosz E Becoming-animal Nonhuman Posthuman Biopolitics Domestication Packs there is a circulation of impersonal affect, an alternate current that disrupts signifying projects as well...

...This chapter aims to bridge the gap between the live and the mediated in her exposure of the performativity of movement in Franco Zeffirelli's film of the operatic performance Madama Butterfly. It proposes a posthuman theory of emergent aesthetics in which performance is no longer...

... be in part a defence mechanism against the oppressive conditions under which they live, but one effect of Rhys’s portraiture is that she pushes the boundaries of the body and of the subject in directions only recently explored by theories of the posthuman. This chapter examines the enmeshment of Rhys’s...

...Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, cybergothic texts from the late 20th and early 21st century have explored fears of posthuman becomings. While monstrous machineries and techno-hybridizations are, of course, central tropes of the Science Fiction genre, it is within a framework of Gothic...

...This chapter analyses the relationship between posthuman subjectivity and cinematic space – and therefore, between ethics and aesthetics – in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The authors examine the film’s use of both diegetic and audiovisual space, linking...

...Given essayists’ attentiveness, in a variety of ways and roles, to the human-nature relationship in the tradition of nature writing, the genre of the essay might be well-suited to meet and, perhaps, lead in the contemporary posthuman turn. This chapter explores how essayists have long worried over...