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By Kay Sidebottom
The critical posthumanism of Braidotti and others differs from other strands (actor network theory, transhumanism, anti-humanism, and so on) in that it is not philosophy as such, but a “…theoretically-powered cartographical tool,” or a lens through which to read the world.
By Matthew D. Miller
A hydrocentric mapping of Europe’s rivers, seas, and watersheds yields a refreshingly defamiliarized continental cartography
By Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Our largely rationalist discourses leave us without tools for reciprocal forms of communication with the nonhuman. How do we go about opening ourselves to such exchanges? Poetry might be a better vehicle for exploring the uncanny.
Reviewed by Ervin Malakaj
Kenneth S. Calhoon’s exciting new study links the cinema of Germany’s Weimar era (1918–1933) to previous aesthetic traditions. Commonly referred to as “the golden age of German cinema,” the Weimar era is affiliated with various cinematic innovations underpinning popular and arthouse cinema cultures that influenced international filmmaking in various ways (Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg 1995, 617).
By Charlène Dray and Jocelyne Porcher
Through the lens of sociology and animal performance studies, we consider here the specific presence and work of stage animals.
By David A. Fennell, Bastian Thomsen and Samuel R. Fennell
Dark tourism, or thanatourism, is a complex subset of the tourism industry, which capitalizes on human death and suffering from human and environmentally induced events.
By Francesca Ferrando, Rohan Hassan, and Hélène B. Ducros
The first insight that Posthumanism gives us to understand what it means to be human…
By the EuropeNow Editorial Committee
Here is this month’s editor’s pick from Research Editorial Committee members Emily Schuckman Matthews and Hélène B. Ducros.
By Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
Problematizing AI in light of posthumanistic critiques would be beneficial in confronting questions of whether nonhuman intelligences can be conceptualized in terms other than humanistic.
