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A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities [PDF]

Theory, Culture & Society, 2018
What are the parameters that define a posthuman knowing subject, her scientific credibility and ethical accountability? Taking the posthumanities as an emergent field of enquiry based on the convergence of posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism, I argue that posthuman knowledge claims go beyond the critiques of the universalist image of ‘Man’ and of ...
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Building language from intra-actions in English classes

Fórum Linguístico
The objective of this article is to discuss some events from a language education experience, while drawing on a critical posthumanist perspective to do so.
Laryssa Paulino de Queiroz Sousa, Rosane Rocha Pessoa, Barbra Sabota   +2 more
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“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

Among Umwelten: Meaning-Making in Critical Posthumanism [PDF]

, 2019
Conceptualizations of meaning ground formulations of human/nonhuman animal similarity and difference. Anthropocentric accounts of meaning-making are increasingly untenable in light of contemporary knowledge of nonhuman life, yet they remain influential ...
McCormack, Brian Herbert
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Governing Survival, Managing Excess: Selection, Evaluation, and Survival Labor in The Wandering Earth Franchise

Humanities
This article reads the recent Chinese sci-fi blockbuster franchise The Wandering Earth (2019) and The Wandering Earth II (2023) as linked thought experiments about planetary survival as governance.
Zhuoyi Wang
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Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences ...
Chitra Sankaran
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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
wiley   +1 more source

Nietzsche\u27s Posthumanism

, 2023
While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements between Nietzsche’s philosophy and ...
Landgraf, Edgar
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Cultivation of Aesthetic Experience as the Aim of Environmental Art Education: A Deweyan View

Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 637-654, October 2026.
Abstract Challenging the dichotomy of nature and culture is broadly seen as a key aim of environmental art education. Some of the literature on the topic focuses on the question of what metaphor for the relationship between nature and culture environmental art educators should adopt and attempt to convey to their students. In this article, I argue that
Iines Leinonen
wiley   +1 more source