Introduction, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (Aarhus University, Denmark) I Paradigms and transformations 1. Humanism, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University, USA) 2. The Self and Subjectivity: Why the Enlightenment is Relevant for Posthumanism, Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo, Norway) 3. Transhumanism, Stefan Sorgner (John Cabot University, Italy) 4. The Non-Human, Systems and New Materialism, Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 5. The Anthropocene, Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven, The Netherlands) 6. The Ahuman, Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 7. Posthumanism: Critical, Speculative, Biomorphic, David Roden (The Open University, UK) 8. Rising Negentropy, Evolutionary Reboots and Gaia as Attractor: Toward a Map of Contemporaneous Posthumanist Positions, Jacob Wamberg (Aarhus University, Denmark) II. Ethics 9. Environmentalisms and Posthumanisms, Ursula K. Heise (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 10. Politics and its Practices, Iwona Janicka (Aarhus University, Denmark) 11. Posthuman Feminist Ethics: Unveiling Ontological Radical Healing, Francesca Ferrando (New York University, USA) 12. Race, Technology, and Posthumanism, Holly Jones and Nick Jones (University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA) 13. The Unity of Humanity, Steve Fuller (Warwick University, UK) 14. Towards Posthuman Human Rights?, Uprendra Baxi (Warwick University, UK) 15. Disability, Neo-Materialism, and the Biopolitics of the Project of Western Man: Towards a Posthumanist Disability Theory by David Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder (George Washington University, USA) 16. Therapy, enhancement and the posthuman, Sarah Chan (University of Edinburgh, UK) III. Technology 17. What can we learn from eugenics?, Nicholas Agar (University of Wellington, New Zealand) 18. The medicalization of the post-human transformation trajectory, Søren Holm (University of Manchester, UK) 19. Life extension and the pursuit of immortality, Andy Miah (University of Salford, UK) 20. Sport, Technoscience, and Posthumanist Athletics, Rayvon Fouché (Purdue University, USA) 21. Data and Information in the Posthuman Sensorium, David Chandler (University of Westminster, UK) 22. Learning and education, Cathrine Hasse (Aarhus University, Denmark) 23. Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Posthumanism as Robophilosophy, Johanna Seibt (Aarhus University, Denmark) IV. Aesthetics 24. What Aesthetics Tells Us About Posthumans, Alexander Wilson (Berlin) 25. Literature’s radical humanist posthumanism, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 26. Posthuman Temporalities in Science and Art, Pernille Leth-Espensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 27. Music, Stefan Sorgner (John Cabot University, Italy) 28. Posthumanism in Film and Television, Ivan Callus (University of Malta, Malta) 29. Digital Comics and Unstable Interfaces, Edward King (University of Bristol, UK) 30. Anime’s Posthumanism: Representation, Mediality, Performance, Jaqueline Berndt (University of Stockholm, Sweden) 31. Ready Player Two: The Digital Avatar as Extension of Self, Kelly Aliano (CUNY, USA) 32. Precarious Lives in the Age of Biocapitalism, Pramod Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India) Bibliography Index

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