The transformative potential of the posthuman is undeniable.
Technoscientific cultures, global economic challenges, looming environmental disaster, the spread of digitalisation, the rise of biomedia and the erosion of traditional demarcations between human and nonhuman all call for alternative ways of thinking about humanity and its environments.
Posthumanism is a paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity and the human that these developments pose. It responds to anthropocentrism, speciesism and biopolitics, and informs new creative practices like bioart and electronic literature. It impacts institutional changes across the life sciences, new media, the digital humanities and the posthumanities. It reflects the ways in which people’s lives are reshaped in the embracing of digital lifestyles, virtualisation and moves towards various kinds of prosthesization and human enhancement.
Critical posthumanism investigates and contextualizes the transformative potential of these developments and relates them to past and existing traditions, ideas and practices. The academics, artists and writers connected by the Critical Posthumanism Network share the conviction that the decentring and critiques of the human implied in posthumanism offer paradigms that speak searchingly of the immediate present and of imminent futures. At the same time those very paradigms will also benefit from a self-critical and historicizing move bearing upon prefigurations, disavowals and alternative/emergent scenarios of the human, nonhuman, posthuman.
Currently the Network’s principal activity is a Genealogy of the Posthuman. This is an online, independently published resource currently based in the UK (ISSN 2632-5004). For the latest news and discussion around critical posthumanism, please see our public Facebook Group. We regularly post updates on new entries to the Genealogy of the Posthuman on the Genealogy‘s official Facebook Page, and on our Twitter account using the hashtag #CPNGenealogy.
General Editors
Ivan Callus Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
Stefan Herbrechter, Heidelberg University
Manuela Rossini Independent researcher, Switzerland
Editors
Megen de Bruin-Molé Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Marija Grech Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
Christopher John Müller Department of Music, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
Advisors
Nicole Anderson Department of Music, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
Marie-Luise Angerer Media Studies, University of Potsdam & The SENSING research college at ZeM
Neil Badmington School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
Sonia Baelo-Allué Department of English and German, University of Zaragoza
Monika Bakke Philosophy Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Rosi Braidotti Utrecht University
Mónica Calvo-Pascual Department of English and German, University of Zaragoza
Marco Caracciolo Ghent University
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Bruce Clarke Department of English, Texas Tech University
Claire Colebrook Department of English, Penn State University
James Corby Department of English, University of Malta
Elaine Graham Theology and Religious Studies, University of Chester
Richard Iveson Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland
Vicki Kirby School of Social Sciences and International Studies, The University of New South Wales
Nidesh Lawtoo Universiteit Leiden
Laurent Milesi Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tanja Nusser Department of German Studies, University of Cincinnati
Jussi Parikka Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Helena Pedersen Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University
Christopher Peterson School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen Department of Aesthetics and Communication, University of Aarhus
R.L. Rutsky Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University
Danielle Sands School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paul Sheehan Department of English, Macquarie University
Lynn Turner Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London
Sherryl Vint Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Jeff Wallace Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Russel West-Pavlov Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Tübingen
Louise Whiteley Medical Museion, Copenhagen
Cary Wolfe Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, Rice University
Contributors
Mario Aquilina University of Malta
Jon Baldwin London Metroplitan University
Monika Bakke Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Stefan Baumgarten Universität Graz
Caro Birch University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ruben Borg Hebrew University
Bernd Bösel University of Potsdam
Aaron Bradshaw University College London
Ron Broglio Arizona State University
Marco Caracciolo Ghent University
Nancy Carranza University of California, Riverside
Olga Cielemęcka Linköping University
Annie Chester University of Edinburgh
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Simon Fraser University
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Arizona State University
Christine Daigle Brock University
Lisa Diedrich Stony Brook University
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel University of Zaragoza
Rolf Goebel The University of Alabama in Huntsville
S.E. Gontarski Florida State University
Elaine Graham University of Chester
Marija Grech University of Malta
Julius Greve University of Oldenburg
Martin Grünfeld Medical Museion & NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen
Heidi Hart Utah State University
Line Henriksen IT University of Copenhagen
Stefan Herbrechter Coventry University
Alex Hogue Coastal Carolina University
Apple Zefelius Igrek Oklahoma State University
Arleen Ionescu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Richard Iveson Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson University of Southern California
Joseph Jenner King’s College London
Sanna Karkulehto University of Jyväskylä
Russell J. A. Kilbourn Wilfrid Laurier University
Vicki Kirby The University of New South Wales
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen University of Jyväskylä
Małgorzata Kowalcze Pedagogical University of Cracow
Edgar Landgraf Bowling Green State University
Nidesh Lawtoo Leiden University
Siobhan Lyons Macquarie University
Brian McCormack York University, Toronto
Anna McFarlane University of Glasgow
Anthony Miccoli Western State Colorado University
Laurent MilesiShanghai Jiao Tong University
Mehdi Mohammadi The University of New Mexico
Alan S. Montroso The George Washington University
Christopher John Müller Department of Music, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
Pramod K. Nayar University of Hyderabad, India
Helena Pedersen Stockholm University
Jean-Michel Rabaté University of Pennsylvania
Manuela Rossini University of Basel
R.L. Rutsky San Francisco State University
Kameron Sanzo University of California, Riverside
David Shaw Concordia University
Steven Swarbrick Baruch College, The City University of New York
Mike Toggweiler Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Berne
Sherryl Vint University of California, Riverside
Jeff Wallace Cardiff Metropolitan University
Kari Weil Wesleyan University
Michelle Westerlaken Malmö University
Poppy Wilde Birmingham City University
Hi, guys! I’m very interested in this stuff. I’ll be returning here. Thank you 🙂
This is great!!! Finally some paper I can totally relate to. I’m studying philosophy in Amsterdam but experience so much resistance from teachers regarding this topic 🙁
Hope to write some papers regarding the postman soon 🙂
A question: (where) can I sign myself up for a mailinglist? If not possible, you should definitely make it optional!
Thanks Eva! Glad you found it helpful. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail when new posts appear. This option should be in the website’s right sidebar.