If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments—such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on a mass scale, the perpetual war on terror and extensive security systems— with a troublesome reiteration of old, unresolved problems that mean the concept of the human as we had previously known it has undergone dramatic transformations.
The Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the complex reality of the ‘posthuman condition’, and creates an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-à-vis critical present-day developments. It bridges missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities. This original work will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike.
Acknowledgements Series Preface List of Contributors Introduction Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova A Affective Turn Heather Houser Afrofuturism Ramon Amaro Ahuman, the Patricia MacCormack AI (Artificial Intelligence) Luciana Parisi Algorithm Jamie ‘Skye’ Bianco Algorithmic Studies David Theo Goldberg and Jenna Ng Alienation James Williams Altergorithm Timotheus Vermeulen Animacies Mel Y. Chen Animal Oxana Timofeeva Animism (Limulus) Karen Kramer Animism Anselm Franke Anonymity Matthew Fuller Anthropism/Immanent Humanism Neni Panourgiá Anthropocene Observatory Territorial Agency and Armin Linke Anthropocene Jussi Parikka Anthro¯rpos Neni Panourgiá Architectonic Disposition Vera Bühlmann Art Tom Holert Art in the Anthropocene Heather Davis B Biological Arts/Living Arts Oron Catts Bios Neni Panourgiá Blue Humanities Steve Mentz Bodies Politic John Protevi Body Without Organs Patricia Pisters C Camp Ethel Brooks Capitalocene and Chthulucene Donna Haraway Commons, the Lindsay Grace Weber Commutation Ontology Lila Athanasiadou Computational Turn Luciana Parisi Contemporary, The Tom Holert Cosmopolitics Maja and Reuben Fowkes Critical Posthumanism Stefan Herbrechter D Decolonial Critique Shannon Winnubst Diffraction Iris van der Tuin Digital Citizenship Bernhard Rieder Digital Philosophy M. Beatrice Fazi Digital Rubbish Jennifer Gabrys E Earth Jussi Parikka (Material) Ecocriticism Serenella Iovino Ecohorror Christy Tidwell Ecologies of Architecture Andrej Radman Ecomaterialism Serpil Oppermann Econtology Henk Oosterling Ecopathy Timotheus Vermeulen Ecosophy Rick Dolphijn Epigenetic Landscape Susan M. Squier Equation (Mathematical Thinking) Vera Bühlmann Ethereal Scent Wander Eikelboom Exclusion Zone Trevor Paglen Execution Critical Software Thing Expulsions Saskia Sassen Extended Cognition Goda Klumbyte? Extinction Claire Colebrook F Feminicity Felicity Colman Feminist Posthumanities Cecilia Åsberg Food Karl Steel Forests Paulo Tavares Four Elements Gary Genosko G Gaga Feminism Jack Halberstam General Ecology Erich Hörl Geo- hydro-solar-bio-techno-politics John Protevi Geomythologies The Otolith Group Geopolitics Ryan Bishop Green/Environmental Humanities Tobijn de Graauw and Elisa Fiore Gulf Labor MTL Collective (Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain) H Hacking Habitat Ine Gevers Hypersea Jenna Sutela Hypersocial Tiziana Terranova I Informatic Opacity Zach Blas In-human,The Katerina Kolozova In/Human Keti Chukhrov Insurgent Posthumanism Dimitris Papadopoulos Interest/Interesse Henk Oosterling Intermediality Henk Oosterling Invariance Vera Bühlmann ‘It’ Stuart McLean J Joy, Ethics of Rosi Braidotti K Kin Goda Klumbyte? L Lampedusa Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson Leaks and Stings Ravi Sundaram Literature of Liberation Serenella Iovino Locality/Non-separability Lila Athanasiadou M MakeHuman Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha Material Feminisms Astrida Neimanis Mattering Brandon Jones Maxwell’s Demon (Non-Anthropocentric Cognition) Vera Bühlmann Medianatures Jussi Parikka Metadata Society Matteo Pasquinelli Metamodernism Timotheus Vermeulen Metastability Aud Sissel Hoel Monster/The Unhuman Nikita Mazurov Multispecies Eben Kirksey Multiverse Francesca Ferrando N Naturecultures Iris van der Tuin Necropolitics Christine Quinan Negentropy Vera Bühlmann Neo/New Materialism Iris van der Tuin Neocolonial Sandra Ponzanesi Neocybernetics Bruce Clarke Networked Affect Susanna Paasonen Neuronal Aesthetics Patricia Pisters Noise Inigo Wilkins Nomadic Sensibility Daniel Baker Non-human Agency Jeffrey Scott Marchand O Object- oriented Ontology Peter Wolfendale Obsolete Technologies Tamara Shepherd and Koen Leurs Occupy (after Deleuze) Rick Dolphijn Ontological Turn, the Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Organization in Platform Capitalism Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Otherwise Embodied Others Pierre Huyghe P P2P (Peer to Peer) Economies Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis Pill, the (Posthuman Icon) Anneke Smelik and Elisa Fiore Placenta Politics Rosi Braidotti Planetary Maja and Reuben Fowkes Plasticity Tom Giesbers Political Affect John Protevi Post Internet Tom Clark Postanimalism Tsz Man Chan Postdisciplinarity Nina Lykke Postglacial Ursula Biemann Posthuman Critical Theory Rosi Braidotti Posthuman Disability and DisHuman Studies Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard and Katherine Runswick-Cole Posthuman Ethics Patricia MacCormack Posthuman Literature and Criticism Carolyn Lau Posthuman Museum Practices Fiona R. Cameron Posthuman Rights, a Micropolitics of Patrick Hanafin Posthuman Sexuality Patricia MacCormack Posthumanism Cary Wolfe Posthumanist Performativity Elisa Fiore Postimage Ingrid Hoelzl Postmedieval Eileen A. Joy Precognition Ramon Amaro Pregnant Posthuman Rodante van der Waal Process Ontologies James Williams Q Quantum Anthropology Vicki Kirby R Radical Mediocrity Henk Oosterling Rationalist Inhumanism Peter Wolfendale Real Cool Ethics Shannon Winnubst Resilience Jeremy Walker and Melinda Cooper Rewilding Maja and Reuben Fowkes Robophilosophy Johanna Seibt S Sensing Practices Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard Socially Just Pedagogies Vivienne Bozalek Speculative Posthumanism David Roden SS= Security/Surveillance Stephanie Simon Stateless State Jonas Staal Static Glow Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Audrey Samson Storied Matter Serpil Oppermann Survival Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann Symbiogenesis Bruce Clarke T Technicity Aud Sissel Hoel Technoanimalism Rick Dolphijn and Tove Kjellmark Terrestrial Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele Tolerances and Duration Harry Sanderson and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe Trans* Goda Klumbyte? Trans-corporeality Stacy Alaimo Transhumanism/Posthumanism Francesca Ferrando U (Un)Documented Citizenship Ernst van den Hemel Urbanibalism Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli V Vertigo Sea John Akomfrah Vibrant Matter Jane Bennett Violence Shela Sheikh W War Jolle Demmers Wearable Technology Anneke Smelik X Xenofeminism Helen Hester Y Youth Koen Leurs, Tamara Shepherd and Alison Harvey Z Zombie Oxana Timofeeva Cumulative Bibliography
Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Maria Hlavajova is artistic director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Reviews for Posthuman Glossary
The essays, like the field itself, are diverse in scope, style, and difficulty ... [The] breadth of concepts and topics covered renders this volume, itself part of a series on emerging critical theories, useful in a broad range of academic disciplines. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * Explicitly political through the network it draws together. Its tentacles spread far and wide, raise relevant questions and provide timely ideas on how to re-think affinities and practices. * Anarchist Studies * With Posthuman Glossary, editors Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova bring together a comprehensive and diverse range of entries that make an emphatic intervention in posthuman scholarship, offering neat summaries, exploring new applications and challenges and suggesting intriguing conceptual networks. The product of significant, collective intellectual and adminstrative labour, this ensemble piece will be a catalyst for research, activism and the formation of new ethical communities. * LSE Review of Books * While many academic dictionaries and glossaries offer little of substance or original content, Posthuman Glossary bucks that trend and provides instead a compelling and rewarding compendium. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory * Moving from one entry to the next or following affective or theoretical threads by engaging in the conceptual paths mapped across the book, the reader will travel the creative and vibrant seas of posthumanist thinking, bursting with new concepts and ideas. This transdisciplinary venture provides essential tools for those who want to contest their anthropocentric, humanistic thinking and tackle the challenges of our unprecedented troubled times. It is a necessary task. -- Christine Daigle, Director, Posthumanism Research Institute and Professor of Philosophy, Brock University, Canada
