Reconfiguring Human Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture

<p>The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. <em>Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture</em> tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture – although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/reconfiguring-human-nonhuman-posthuman-literature-culture-sanna-karkulehto-aino-kaisa-koistinen-essi-varis/e/10.4324/9780429243042, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. </p> <p>INTRODUCTION </p><p>Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman: Striving for More Ethical Cohabitation </p><p>Section 1: Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading</p><p>Chapter 2: On the Possibility of Posthuman-ist Literature </p><p>Chapter 3: Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Powers </p><p>Chapter 4: Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s <i>Annihilation </i>and Timothy Morton's <i>Hyperobjects </i></p><p>Section 2: Imagining Alien Experiences</p><p>Chapter 5: Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters </p><p>Chapter 6: Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in <i>Aliens vs. Predator </i></p><p>Section 3: Becoming with Animals</p><p>Chapter 7: Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Sierbert's <em>Angus</em></p><p>Chapter 8: Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts</p><p>Chapter 9: Connecting Difference: A Human/Guide Dog Assemblage </p><p><strong>Section 4: Technological (Co-)Agencies </strong></p><p>Chapter 10: Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-anthropocentric Semiotics </p><p>Chapter 11: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower and Counterplay in <i>Minecraft </i></p><p>Chapter 12: Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency </p><p>Section 5: Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? </p><p>Chapter 13: Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism </p>