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The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/reconfiguring-human-nonhuman-posthuman-literature-culture-sanna-karkulehto-aino-kaisa-koistinen-essi-varis/e/10.4324/9780429243042, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman: Striving for More Ethical Cohabitation
Section 1: Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading
Chapter 2: On the Possibility of Posthuman-ist Literature
Chapter 3: Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Powers
Chapter 4: Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects
Section 2: Imagining Alien Experiences
Chapter 5: Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters
Chapter 6: Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator
Section 3: Becoming with Animals
Chapter 7: Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Sierbert's Angus
Chapter 8: Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts
Chapter 9: Connecting Difference: A Human/Guide Dog Assemblage
Section 4: Technological (Co-)Agencies
Chapter 10: Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-anthropocentric Semiotics
Chapter 11: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower and Counterplay in Minecraft
Chapter 12: Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency
Section 5: Afterword: Unnarratable Matter?
Chapter 13: Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism
