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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
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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
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Can the Prosumer Economy Be a Posthumanist Economy?
, 2023 Devastated by the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises, humanity is seeking a way out. For this, the current system where profit maximization, consumption, and human dominance over nature needs to change. In the current anthropocentric economic system,
Özesmi,U., Çevirme,E.T., Satıcı,E.E.
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, 2023 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Bloomsbury via the DOI in this record ; ‘Posthuman’ is a multivalent and multidisciplinary term that references a complex, sometimes conflicted reconceptualization of the body and subjectivity resulting from developments in biology, technology and ecology, which highlight human
Dolezal, L., DeFalco, A.
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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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, 2023 Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across ...
Robitaille, Marie-Andree,
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Filosofický časopisThe primary aim of the article is to present posthumanism as an approach needed in the era of the Anthropocene. By posthumanism, I mean a way of thinking that overcomes the weaknesses of humanism and emphasizes the essential interconnectedness of human ...
Ritter, Martin
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«Nuestra especie no sueña». Memoria, de Apichatpong Weerasethakul: del surrealismo al posthumanismo
Cahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américainesDrawing on two essential concepts of surrealism—the dream and the transformation of reality—this article seeks to establish a link between the aforementioned concepts and the epistemological discourses of posthumanism, through an analysis of the film ...
Carlos Tello
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BOOK REVIEW: Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism
Fafnir, 2023 Idema, Tom. Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism. Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978-0415788229.
Shelby Brewster
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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
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