Entanglements in the Age of the Posthuman / edited by Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Cristina Álvares, Marinela Freitas, and Lígia Bernardino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Álvares, Cristina, editor.

Bernardino, Lígia, editor.

Freitas, Marinela, editor.

Soeiro,Ricardo Gil, editor.

Series:

Critical Posthumanisms ; 8.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Critical Posthumanisms ; 8

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking volume delves into critical posthumanism, exploring the dissolution of traditional boundaries between humans and nonhuman entities. Challenging the autonomy of the human subject, it presents a radical rethinking of subjectivity, emphasizing interconnectedness and co-existence. Drawing on key movements like post-structuralism, feminism, queer theory, and decolonial studies, this book invites readers to reconsider the hierarchies of matter and agency, advocating for a more inclusive, post-anthropocentric perspective. As the concept of “becoming-with” redefines the political and philosophical landscape, this work on dynamic entanglements offers fresh insights into the future of human and nonhuman relations in both theory and artistic practice.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Informations

Title Page

Copyrights Page

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Being-with in an Entangled World

Bibliography

1 (Un)Ravelling

1 Storying, or Why Critical Posthumanism, Still Matters

2 Unlearning, or the Linguistic Return

3 Reworlding, or Carrying the Other

2 Multilogue on Post-violence: Posthumanist Visions, Narratives and Entanglements

Preface

1 A Multilogue

3 On the Matter of the Stranger: Thinking Identity-Formation and Not-Belonging through a New

1 How the Self Comes to Matter

2 Encountering Strange Matter

3 Conclusion

4 Entangled Mutualities and the Ecologies of Looking

1 The Inquisitor's Gaze and the Poet's Gaze

2 Flying on the Bat's Back

3 For a Poetic Ecology

4 Conclusion: Entangled Mutualities

5 From Biopoetry to Digital Fungi: the Poetics of Text-Organisms

6 Between the Wrong Side of Cybernetic Heaven and the Righteous Side of Human Hell: Nonbeing Quality

7 Rethinking the Schizophrenic as a Posthuman Figure: a Critical Analysis

1 Introduction

2 Having Schizophrenia VS. Being Schizophrenic

3 Schizophrenic Creativity

4 Rethinking Rationality in the Schizophrenic Self

5 Searching for a Posthuman Schizophrenia

6 Conclusion

8 The Posthuman in "Realistic" Cinema

1 Cast Away (2000)

2 Lost in Translation (2003)

3 Closer (2004)

4 Fast 5 (2011)

5 The Counsellor (2013)

9 The Entanglements of the Modern Forest

1 The Modern Forest as an Apparatus for Order, Predictability, and Cyclicality

2 Isolating the Tree: Individualization against the Entanglement

3 The Cycles of Stuckness

Bibliography.

10 How Does Landscape (Re)Connect the Real and the Virtual? A Media Arts Case Study

1 The Idea of Landscape and the Concept of Potential Meaning (Affordance)

2 Red Lines with Landscapes - A Case Study

3 A Collaborative Project

4 The Urgency of Contemplation

11 Nurturing Techno-environmental Entanglements in Marie Eve Levasseur's VR Project Le Corps-glitch

1 Introducing the Virtual Entanglements

2 Taking Care of More/Than/Human Entanglements in Techno-environment

3 Virtual More/Than/Human World Building in Marie-Eve Levasseur's Le Corps-glitch (multitudes)

4 Coda: Nurturing Techno-environmental Entanglements

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74155-0

9789004741553

OCLC:

1561175337

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004741553 DOI