Issue 45 | November 2021

A Special Feature, Rethinking the Human in a Multispecies World.

• Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros

Research

• “Self-Realization beyond the Human: Arne Næss and Norwegian Deep Ecology” by Sean Ireton

• “Re-thinking ‘Human-Centric’ AI: An Introduction to Posthumanist Critique” by Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

• “In a Europe of Waters” by Matthew D. Miller

• “From Mules to Cephalopods: The Changing Classifications of Animals Protected from Cruelty” by Shira Shmuely

• “Mastery and the Banksia Tree” by Prudence Gibson and Sharon Willoughby

• “On Becoming Lichen” by John Ryan

• “Moving the Green: Plant Behavior in the Human World” by Vicente Raja

• “Animals as Dark Tourism Attractions: A Prototype” by David Fennell

Commentary

• “Kindness and Compassion for Mutual Flourishing in Post-human Worlds: Re-Imagining our Relationships with Insects” by Richard J. White and Hannah C. Gunderman

• “Living with Bears” by Kathryn Kirpatrick

• “Circus Animals: Exploring the Work Relationship through Theatrical Co-production” by Charlène Dray and Jocelyne Porcher

Visual Art

• “Bodies and Cities: Imagining Alternative Relations with the Nonhuman,” an art series curated by Hélène Ducros

Fiction

• Cremation by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles

Interviews

• “An Interview about Posthumanism in a Time of Crisis” by Francesca Ferrando, Rohan Hassan, and Hélène Ducros

• “The Plant World from a Botanical Artist’s Perspective: An Interview with Gael Sellwood” by Elizabeth B. Jones

Book Reviews

• Diary of a Young Naturalist, reviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones

• Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti, reviewed by Yotam Tsal

• The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern, reviewed by Ervin Malakaj

• Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna, reviewed by Nora Gortcheva

Campus 

• “Pedagogies of Diverse Bioregions: An Ecotistical Move from Ego to Eco” by Brandon Edwards-Schuth and John Lupinacci

• “Education for a More-Than-Human World” by Kay Sidebottom

• “Syllabus: The Danube” by Matthew D. Miller

Campus Monthly Round-Up

• “Dislodging Anthropocentrism in Higher Education” by Hélène Ducros

Editor’s Pick

• Trees in Literatures and the Arts: Human Arboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene  by  Carmen Concilio and Daniela Fargione

• Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia  by Siobhán Hearne