Postumano. Il corpo tra psicoanalisi, biopolitica, realtà virtuale e arte Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici – Napoli, 27 maggio 2016 [PDF]
Posthuman. The Body between Psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, virtual Reality and Art The posthuman has become a topic of central interest for the definition of certain key-elements of Western thought.
LO SAPIO, LUCA
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Affective Embodiment and the Transmission of Affect in Ex Machina
The focus of posthuman thought centers on a shift in the humanistic paradigm; focusing on a state of existence that lies beyond being “human”, including bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic embodiment. Inspired by continuous
Chia Wei Fahn
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Meatspace is Cyberspace: The Pynchonian Posthuman in Bleeding Edge
This article examines Thomas Pynchon’s indirect critique of utopian posthumanism in Bleeding Edge by analyzing the deleterious effects that an emerging Internet culture has on the novel’s characters. By seeping into every aspect of their lives, embedding
Jason Siegel
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On posthuman subjectivity [PDF]
The posthuman condition urges us to think critically and creatively about who and what we are actually in the process of becoming. (p.
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Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
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Posthuman Childhood and the Pedagogy of Becoming in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Catwings Series
This article rethinks childhood in children’s literature through a posthuman lens by examining Ursula K. Le Guin’s Catwings series as a pedagogy of becoming rather than a narrative of developmental completion.
Başak Ağın, Serra Süeda Öztürk
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Toward a Sustainability Standard for Cultural Organizations: Borrowing From Tourism
ABSTRACT Cultural organizations are increasingly engaging with sustainability, yet they lack a sector‐specific standard to guide and institutionalize efforts as long‐term strategies. This study reviews research papers on sustainability standards in the tourism sector, a field with greater experience with such tools, and horizontally borrows insights ...
Małgorzata Ćwikła, Leticia Labaronne
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This review essay critically examines Emily Jones’ Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, which develops “posthuman feminism” to diagnose the exclusionary humanism and anthropocentrism of international law.
Shisong Jiang
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Kabbalah, "Dybbuks", and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of "Twin Peaks"
In the series Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, David Lynch and others create a mythological framework structured by and filtered through Shakespeare in a postsecular exploration of the posthuman. Twin Peaks exemplifies a cultural postsecular turn in its treatment
Lisa S. Starks
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