The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age

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What is the future of humanity What does it mean to be human in the posthuman age What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments How are the stories that humans tell themselves implicated in the very power asymmetries and eco-political challenges that they bemoan Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the posthuman age, the essays in this collection speak to the multifaceted geographies and counter-geographies of humanity, probing into the possible futures we face as planetary species. Some of these include: ecological issues generated by centuries of neglecting our environment(s); power asymmetries stemming from economic and cultural globalization; violence and its affective politics informed by cultural, ethnic, and racial genocides; religious disputes; social inequities produced by consumerism; gender normativity; and the increasing impact of digital and AI (artificial intelligence) technology on the human body, as well as historical, socio-political, not to mention ethical relations.

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Reframing the humanist subject as a complex temporal material and a differential ecology of affects, this exciting interdisciplinary collection enables multiple entry points to new thinking in support of posthuman futures. The essays explore shared incursions of biology and technology to redefine what it means to be human in the twenty-first century and articulate non-anthropocentric perspectives with planetary implications. -- Simone Bignall, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology in Sydney

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Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University. She has published The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012). Pavlina Radia is Associate Dean of Arts and Science and Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. She is also the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: "Two 28 Very Serious Ladies" (2016) and Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (2016). She is also a co-editor of Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts with Ann McCulloch (2012). Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in postwar childrens fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy.