Vol. VI / 2016

 

INSIDE COVER

CONTENTS

Marija Grech - Proto-Posthumanisms

LITERARY PROTO-POSTHUMANISM

Stefan Herbrechter - Hamlet and Posthumanist Politics

Betsy Bolton - Agency from a Stone: Shelley’s Posthumanist Experiments in ‘Mont Blanc’

James Cochran - ‘Angels in Machines’: Tracing the Proto-Posthuman in Alexander Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’

Nozomi Saito - ‘Fare Forward, Voyagers’: Arriving at Posthumanism in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

Caleb Sivyer - Concrete and Desert Islands: Proto-Posthuman Crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard

PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Hilary Bergen - ‘I’d Blush if I Could’: Digital Assistants, Disembodied Cyborgs and the Problem of Gender

Anthony Miccoli - Posthuman Trajectories: Cartesian Logic and Ethical Technoprogressivism

Aaron Aquilina- Reprogramming Destiny: Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’, Evolution, and Posthumanism

Angus McBlane - Expressing Corporeal Silence: Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and Posthumanism

CODA

Ivan Callus - Drop the ‘Proto-’: Posthumanism and Prefiguration

REVIEWS/ REVIEW-ARTICLES

Nina Lyon - Zoe Jacques, Children’s Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg (New York: Routledge, 2015)

Arleen Ionescu - Experimental Practices of Life Narratives: A Review of Narrating Life – Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art (Rodopi, 2016)

CONTRIBUTORS