An interdisciplinary archive of generative methods of writing, fabulation, and world-making, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of a new style of living demanded by a more-than-human world. This book works to de...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that thought experiments in literature demonstrate how fears and hopes around automation may have more basis in imagination than reality. The volume asks how these understandings of automation can help to understand our technologica...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding which is situated. First, the eye is theorised with respect to ethical understanding. When visual po...Lasīt vairāk
An interdisciplinary archive of generative methods of writing, fabulation, and world-making, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of a new style of living demanded by a more-than-human world. This book works to de...Lasīt vairāk
From the cuneiform tablets of the city of Nineveh to the colored motion pictures of Hollywoods silver screens and beyond, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on the emergence, development, and influence of the hybrid (human/non-human) monarch...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual stru...Lasīt vairāk
Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses literary encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world. It includes in-depth discussion of a wide range of literary texts from the Br...Lasīt vairāk
Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on Foucault-inflected philosophy of technical mediation, Futures of the Human Subject analyzes several recent science fiction novels, examining their representations of the relation between people and specific technologies and of the way in w...Lasīt vairāk
This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective of critical posthumanism, 21st century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of...Lasīt vairāk
From the cuneiform tablets of the city of Nineveh to the colored motion pictures of Hollywoods silver screens and beyond, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on the emergence, development, and influence of the hybrid (human/non-human) monarch...Lasīt vairāk
This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives spac...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book-length study foregrounding Audens sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet. Proposing that Auden had a remarkable spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on...Lasīt vairāk
From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blytons The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barkers fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Dentons popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and othe...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of dilemmas they entail. While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines apian imagerybees, drones, honey, and the hivein the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this...Lasīt vairāk
To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practic...Lasīt vairāk
This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aestheti...Lasīt vairāk
The book defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile pertaining to an entomological fascination in relation to subject formation. It tracks the insectile across the archives of psychoanalysis, 17th century still life painting, novels from...Lasīt vairāk
The book defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile pertaining to an entomological fascination in relation to subject formation. It tracks the insectile across the archives of psychoanalysis, 17th century still life painting, novels from...Lasīt vairāk
