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Gonçalo M. Tavares is a writer who thrives on thought. His fiction feeds off a large epistemological debate that finds in Literature a privileged field of experience and observation of the ethical dilemmas in the posthuman world. As a sort of speculative anthropologist, he employs multiple genres to foster a wide debate on the limits of that which is human, its existential scope, its body and subjectivity. This book focuses on a procedure which Tavares himself claims to make use of, under the influence of Roland Barthes: the procedure of "writing the reading". It consists of trials and errors that sometimes endeavor to imitate the author’s own gesture of writing as an attempt to "write along with" Gonçalo M. Tavares, and sometimes outline the presence of others with whom he shares this this gesture. The essays here comprised seek to measure the intensity of the enstrangement brought on by Tavares’ writing as the cornerstone of a fiction whose telos is to lend some lucidity to the contemporary world while making it spin into absurdity.

Contemporary literature --- Affective --- Connections posthuman world --- Essayism --- Gonçalo m. tavares

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This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy movement, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject today. Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy’s question of who comes after the subject.

Rejection (Psychology) --- Outcasts. --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Social isolation --- Brigands and robbers --- Ethnology --- Outlaws --- Cixous. --- Derrida. --- Incompossible. --- Nancy. --- Post-Secular. --- Posthuman. --- Reject. --- Subject.

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"This book presents an increased understanding and appreciation of how interconnected climate and humans are and offers strategies for coping and adapting to the distressing realities of climate change. In this innovative and empowering study, Blanche Verlie draws on more-than-human and affect theory to argue that if we are to become climate change responsible, we need to learn to 'live-with' climate change and achieve an increased appreciation of the interconnected nature of existence. Engaging with ethnographic case study research from an undergraduate course on climate change in Melbourne and the ongoing School Strikes 4 Climate, the book explores the cultural and sociological dimensions of climate change grief and distress. Focusing specifically on young people, Verlie examines the impact this grief can have on personal identity and relationships and offers pragmatic guidance for making sense of, responding to and living with climate change, without reasserting a domineering, individualistic worldview. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental sociology, cultural studies and environmental psychology"-- Provided by publisher.

Climate change. --- Human beings --- Communication in social action. --- Effect of climate on. --- Climate change;Environmental activism;More-than-human;Posthuman;School Strike 4 Climate

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'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet. As Rosi Braidotti argues, "there is a posthuman agreement that contemporary science and biotechnologies affect the very fibre and structure of the living and have altered dramatically our understanding of what counts as the basic frame of reference for the human today". The proposed book analyzes this alteration as directors, creators, authors, and artists from the field of science fiction extrapolate it from current trends.

Science fiction. --- Biotechnology in literature. --- Science fiction --- History and criticism. --- Science --- Science stories --- Fiction --- Future, The, in literature --- Literature --- Science Fiction --- Dystopia --- Genetic engineering --- Humanism --- Late modernity --- Posthuman --- Posthumanism --- Utopia --- genetic engineering in popular culture --- dystopian science fiction --- Liquid modernity --- biopunk --- science-fictionality

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We live in the digital age where our sense of self and identity has moved beyond the body to encompass hardware and software. Cyborgs, online representations in social media, avatars, and virtual reality extend our notion of what it means to be human. This book looks at the progression of self from the biological to the technological using a multidisciplinary approach. It examines the notion of personhood from philosophical, psychological, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence perspectives, showing how the interface between bodies, brains, and technology can give rise to new forms of human identity. Jay Friedenberg presents the content in an organized and easy-to-understand fashion to facilitate learning. A gifted researcher, author, and classroom teacher, he is one of the most influential voices in the field of artificial psychology.

Self-presentation. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Brain. --- artificial intelligence. --- artificial psychology. --- artificial self. --- avatars. --- biology. --- biotech. --- body. --- brain. --- cyborg. --- digital age. --- digital identity. --- digital lives. --- digital self. --- embodiment. --- future selves. --- human identity. --- identity. --- neuroscience. --- nonfiction. --- online lives. --- online self. --- personhood. --- posthuman. --- postmodern. --- psychology. --- robotics. --- science. --- self. --- social media. --- software. --- stem. --- technology. --- virtual reality. --- virtual worlds.