This volume brings together original essays that reflect and engage with different disciplinary approaches to autoimmunity in the theoretical, medical or posthumanities, social and political theory and critical science studies. It aims to provide a topical intervention within the current discussion on biopolitical thought and critical posthumanist futures. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.

Stefan Herbrechter is a research fellow at Coventry University, UK; a Privatdozent at Heidelberg University, Germany; and general editor of criticalposthumanism.net.

Michelle Jamieson is a sociologist and lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia.

1. Fortress 2. Allergy and Autoimmunity: Rethinking the Normal and the Pathological 3. Self, Not-Self, Not Not-Self But Not Self, or The Knotty Paradoxes of 'Autoimmunity': A Genealogical Rumination 4. Autoimmunity: the political state of nature 5. Cosmic Topologies of Imitation: From the Horror of Digital Autotoxicus to the Auto-Toxicity of the Social 6. Contagion, Virology, Autoimmunity: Derrida's Rhetoric of Contamination 7. Auto (Immunity): Evolutions of Otherness 8. (Auto)immunity, Social Theory, and the 'Political'