Posthumanities

Centres, Initiatives

• Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Directed by Rosi Braidotti. Also Gender Studies, Iris van der Tuin and her project The Material Turn in the Humanities.
• The NONHuman Research Group, Queen's University, Canada. Headed by Myra J. Hird.
• The posthumanities node at the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. With Lori Gruen and Kari Weil.
• The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University, Sweden. Founded by Cecilia Åsberg.
• The HumAnimal Studies Group of GenNa, Uppsala University, Sweden. With Tora Holmberg and Malin Ah-King.
• The Zoontology Research Team, Linköping University, Sweden. Headed by Jami Weinstein.
• The Network for Gender Research, University of Stavanger, Norway, 2013. With Wencke Mühleisen and Ingvil Hellstrand.
• Posthumanities Network: The Next Genderation.

Scholars

• Cecilia Åsberg
• Karen Barad
• Rosi Braidotti
• Claire Colebrook
• Ewa Domanska
• Donna Haraway
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Myra J. Hird
• Iris van der Tuin
• Kari Weil
• Jami Weinstein
• Cary Wolfe

Literature

• Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1994; 2nd ed., rev., 2011, 416 pp. "Outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive." [1]
• Chris Hables Gray, with Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor (eds.), The Cyborg Handbook, New York: Routledge, 1995, xx+540 pp. Reviews: Badmington (Sci-Fi Studies), Hektor (Young), Dokulil (SFFBU).
• Judith Halberstam, Ira Livingston (eds.), Posthuman Bodies, Indiana University Press, 1995, 275 pp.
• David Wills, Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics, University of Minnesota Press (Posthumanities), 2008. [2]
• Cary Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism?, University of Minnesota Press (Posthumanities), 2009. [3]
• Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, University of Minnesota Press (Posthumanities), 2010. [4]
• Cecilia Åsberg, Martin Hultman, Francis Lee (eds.), Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012, 233 pp. [5]. Review: Ingvarsson (Samlaren). (Swedish)
• Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman, Polity, Apr 2013, 180 pp.
  • translations
• Debashish Banerji, Makarand R. Paranjape (eds.), Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, Springer, 2016, xiii+277 pp.
• Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook (eds.), Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman, Columbia University Press, 2017, 392 pp. [6] [7]
• Rosi Braidotti, Maria Hlavajova (eds.), Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xxxii+538 pp.
• Rosi Braidotti, Simone Bignall (eds.), Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process After Deleuze, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, 288 pp. [8]
• Cecilia Åsberg, Rosi Braidotti (eds.), A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities, Springer, 2018, x+245 pp. [9]
• Vivienne Bozalek, Rosi Braidotti, Tamara Shefer, Michalinos Zembylas (eds.), Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 264 pp. [10]

Journal issues

• NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 19(4), Special Issue: "Post-humanities", eds. Cecilia Åsberg, Redi Koobak and Ericka Johnson, 2011. [11]

Primary references

• Michel Serres, Le Parasite, Grasset, 1980. (French)
  • Parasite, trans. Lawrence R. Schehr, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

• Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s", Socialist Review 15:2 (1985), pp 65-107. New version printed as "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Free Association, 1991, pp 149-181, n243-248.
  • versions and translations