Posthumanities

Centres, Initiatives

• Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Directed by Rosi Braidotti. Also Gender Studies, Iris van der Tuin and her project The Material Turn in the Humanities.
• The NONHuman Research Group, Queen's University, Canada. Headed by Myra J. Hird.
• The posthumanities node at the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. With Lori Gruen and Kari Weil.
• The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University, Sweden. Founded by Cecilia Åsberg.
• The HumAnimal Studies Group of GenNa, Uppsala University, Sweden. With Tora Holmberg and Malin Ah-King.
• The Zoontology Research Team, Linköping University, Sweden. Headed by Jami Weinstein.
• The Network for Gender Research, University of Stavanger, Norway, 2013. With Wencke Mühleisen and Ingvil Hellstrand.
• Posthumanities Network: The Next Genderation.

Scholars

• Cecilia Åsberg
• Karen Barad
• Rosi Braidotti
• Claire Colebrook
• Ewa Domanska
• Donna Haraway
• N. Katherine Hayles
• Myra J. Hird
• Iris van der Tuin
• Kari Weil
• Jami Weinstein
• Cary Wolfe

Literature

Posthumanities series (U Minnesota Press) [1]

Series Editor: Cary Wolfe.

• David Wills, Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics, University of Minnesota Press, 2008. [2]
• Cary Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism?, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. [3]
• Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, University of Minnesota Press, 2010. [4]

Other books

• Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects, Columbia University Press, 1994; 2nd ed., rev., 2011, 416 pp. [5] "Outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive."
• Cecilia Åsberg, Martin Hultman, Francis Lee (eds.), Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter, Lund, 2012. (Swedish) [6]
• Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman, Polity, Apr 2013, 180 pp. [7] "An introduction to contemporary debates on the posthuman."
• Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook (eds.), Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman, Columbia University Press, 2017, 392 pp. [8] [9]
• Rosi Braidotti, Maria Hlavajova (eds.), Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xxxii+538 pp.
• Rosi Braidotti, Simone Bignall (eds.), Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process After Deleuze, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, 288 pp. [10]

Journal issues

• NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 19(4), Special Issue: "Post-humanities", eds. Cecilia Åsberg, Redi Koobak and Ericka Johnson, 2011. [11]

Primary references

• Michel Serres, Le Parasite, Grasset, 1980. (French)
  • Parasite, trans. Lawrence R. Schehr, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

• Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s", Socialist Review 15:2 (1985), pp 65-107. New version printed as "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century", in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Free Association, 1991, pp 149-181, n243-248.
  • versions and translations