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Stefan Herbrechter
Critical posthumanism is a by now established theory paradigm that challenges us to rethink, unlearn and relearn afresh what it means to be human. The essays collected here track the…
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The relationship between posthumanism and literature is problematic. This volume aims to show that while there might not be a 'posthumanist literature', it does make sense to speak of a…
The current crisis in thinking the human raises questions not only about who or what may come after the human, but also about what happened before. What dark secrets lie…
Dr Stefan Herbrechter
This critical introduction understands posthumanism as a discourse, covering everything that has been and is being said about the figure of the ‘posthuman’. It outlines the genealogy of the various…
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Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues. As a medical term, autoimmunity is today used to account for any…
How is the relationship between literature, science and the arts informed by the process of narrating life, and how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by…
Cy-Borges-this compound word seems almost destined. It allows the associations of cyber-and cyborg to converge around the name of Jorge Luis Borges, many of whose writings are strangely prescient thought-experiments…
In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American…
Jacques Derrida
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say … is Jacques Derrida’s tribute to Helene Cixous-the author, her works, and their lifelong mutual reading and intellectual friendship.
