...Jacqueline O'Dell Abstract Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her , about a letter writer's romance with his operating system, is often read as a posthuman meditation on universal concerns about intimacy. Drawing from Sylvia Wynter's work on genres of the human, this article argues that the protagonist...

... from 2011 and contemporary theories of the posthuman (Ray Brassier, Eugene Thacker) and the Anthropocene (Ian Baucom, Dipesh Chakrabarty), in order to demonstrate that the literary novel has a vital role to play in the imagining of new forms of (non)human relatedness. Developing Submergence 's...

... of the posthuman. In these novels feedback-­driven characters signify verisimilitude or “truth to life.” Their idiosyncratic development inheres in their automaticity. Yonge and the Aesthetics of Second Nature Though Yonge ([1865] 1906, vii, 416) bills The Daisy Chain as a chronicle of the times...

... reverence than that of either the (active) living or the living dead. Following from the epistemological and ethical crises the zombie precipi- tates, subjectivity itself is threatened by zombiism. Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry (2008, 87) conceive of the zombie as a posthuman, postindividual...

... of Vision and Reason since 1945 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . 2000 . Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Hayles N. Katherine . 1999 . How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics...

... long afterlife, which continues to shape contemporary cultural productions of gendered and racialized subjectivity. Her coda extends the presentist considerations of the book's chapters through a brief but cogent meditation on posthuman femininity in Alex Garland's 2014 sci-fi film Ex Machina...

... . Fruiting Bodies . London : Penguin . Lyotard Jean-François . 1984 . The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge . Translated by Bennington Geoff Massumi Brian . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . McGurl Mark . 2012 . “The Posthuman Comedy.” Critical...

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..., and Posthuman Theory . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2003 . Young Robert J.C. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race . New York and London : Routledge , 1995 . FREUD'S MENAGERIE DANA SEITLER, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY In 1984 an infant, born with a lethal heart disease...

... . “ Introduction to Uncle Silas .” In Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu , edited by Crawford Cary William , Rockhill Jim , and Showers Brian J. , 333 – 45 . New York : Hippocampus . Braidotti Rosi . 2013 . The Posthuman . Cambridge : Polity...

... the "realist" knowledge of the earth-as-globe—through which those bod- ies partake of a shared, communal location, "planet earth." Bodies outside of space—or unplaced bodies—are very difficult to imagine, though that is precise- ly what is at stake in posthuman representation and technology...

...: Posthumanism and A Tale for the Time Being .” New Centennial Review 19 , no. 2 : 117 – 38 . Ozeki Ruth . 2013a . “ Confessions of a Zen Novelist .” Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly , no. 15 : 34 – 39 . www.lionsroar.com/confessions-of-a-zen-novelist/ . Ozeki Ruth...

..., shoggoth-­like enemies into the far-­future, posthuman bodies of the last rulers of the earth. Peaslee initially considers his recovered memories to be nothing more than the residue of the obscure mythological research that his occupied body car- THE WEIRDING OF WORLD LITERATURE...

.... It is paradoxically the product of an all-powerful and systematic science and an unpredictable substance tuned to the some of the more subjective elements of humanity. Oddly, it is a posthuman technology that, through its ratification of human sovereignty over the molecular world, in both scientific...

... by humans; some are meant to be executed by the machine and to perform some definable task, while others combine standard alphanumeric symbols with exotic symbols borrowed from com- puter programming, creating a pseudo-code that makes no sense to the machine, but arguably speaks to the posthuman...