An interdisciplinary archive of generative methods of writing, fabulation, and world-making, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of a new style of living demanded by a more-than-human world.

Grant Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and writes in the areas of literary theory, twentieth-century world literatures, African literature, and computational literary studies. He is the author of The London Object (2021), The World of Failing Machines (2016), and On Representation (2011). He is the co-editor of A Companion to Mia Couto (2016), and editor of Reading Marechera (2013).

Carolyn Lau teaches and researches on global speculative fictions, contemporary literature, and narrative futures in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard (2023).

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: An Orientation

Grant Hamilton & Carolyn Lau

Section 1: ELIZA (1964-1966)

Chapter 1. Posthuman Bodies: Why They (Still) Matter

N. Katherine Hayles

Chapter 2. Quantum Machine Intelligence

Alessandra Di Pierro & Luca Viganò

Chapter 3. Berty

Angela Su

Chapter 4. Simulation in the Post-reality Feedback Loop

Kenny K. N. Chow

Chapter 5. An Object Misplaced in Time

Jule Owen

Section 2: Anansi (1526)

Chapter 6. An Interview with Rosi Braidotti

Grant Hamilton, Carolyn Lau & Rosi Braidotti

Chapter 7. Technogenesis as White Mythology

Stephen Cave & Kanta Dihal

Chapter 8. The First Virs

Danbee Kim

Chapter 9. In the Lap of the Synth

Stephen Oram

Chapter 10. Utopianism in the Technological Age

Lizzie O'Shea

Section 3: R.U.Radius (1921)

Chapter 11. Raised by Robots: Imagining Posthuman 'Maternal' Touch

Amelia DeFalco & Luna Dolezal

Chapter 12. Tender Bodies

Zheng Mahler

Chapter 13 Smartwatch

Jennifer L Rohn

Chapter 14. The Tablet Stroker, Redux

Christine Aicardi

Chapter 15. CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY: A Reflection on Machines, Meanings, and Metaphors

Sandra Rodriguez

Chapter 16. Biospheres

Ta-wei Chi

Section 4: Anansi, Reprised (1526)

Chapter 17. Storying Relations as Posthuman Ethics

Carolyn Lau

Chapter 18. The World After, Lost Eons

David Blandy

Chapter 19. Hello, World! Hello, Poetic Zombies!

Winnie Soon & Susan Scarlata

Chapter 20. Foreign Bodies

Pippa Goldschmidt

Chapter 21. Melanin Object

Ari Larissa Heinrich

Chapter 22. An Interview with Jes Fan

Ari Larissa Heinrich & Jes Fan

Section 5: Potnia Theron (6,000BC)

Chapter 23. Beyond Transcendence: From 'human' to 'Human' in Tchaikovsky's Children Series

Sheryl Vint

Chapter 24. Scoby skin, Yellow soup

HSURAE

Chapter 25. Posthuman Spirituality

Francesco Ferrando & Debashish Banerji

Chapter 26. The Left-hand Click and the Left-hand Lay: Intersecting Technology and Folk Belief in Posthuman Spirituality

Evelyn Wan

Chapter 27. Towards a Low-Trophic Theory in Feminist Posthumanities: Staying with Environmental Violence, Ecological Grief, and the Trouble of Consumption

Cecilia Åsberg & Marietta Radomska

Bibliography

Index