... 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...

... as “an index of what performance may be expected” (67) from machines and from the human mind. In this we can begin to see realist character not strictly in the humanist tradition but also as part of the long history of the posthuman. In these novels feedback-­driven characters signify verisimilitude...

...) conceive of the zombie as a posthuman, postindividual theo- 3. Brooks’s The Zombie Survival Guide (2003) plays ironically on these tropes, wryly demysti- fying the zombie in positivist terms to correct the irrational behavior that survivors display in zombie films. 4. For example...

.... Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- versity Press. Hayles, N. Katherine. 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cyber- netics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kant, Immanuel. (1790) 1987. Critique...

.... 1984. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. McGurl, Mark. 2012. “The Posthuman Comedy.” Critical Inquiry 38, no. 3: 533 – 53. McHale, Brian. 1989. Postmodernist Fiction. London...

... . 1999 . The Rise and Decline of the State . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Wallace Jeff . 2005 . D. H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Watson Sean . 2003 . “Bodily Entanglement: Bergson and Thresholds in the Sociology of Affect...

... for the Origins of Behavior. New York: Knopf, 1999. Wolfe, Cary. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, 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...

... 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...

... . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Omry Keren . 2019 . “ Ozeki's Mirror Rooms: 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...

.... 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...

...) — to prepare their own escape, through time travel, from their inevitable defeat by formless, 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...

... 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...