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Skip to content Toggle menu Critical Posthumanism Network Home of the Genealogy of the Posthuman Primary Menu Home Genealogy A-Z Call for Entries About Search for: Category: Concepts Melancholic Nonhuman Processes: Disintegration, Diminishment, Refusal Posted On : November 30, 2025 Category: Concepts Genealogy The Elements: Threshold Concept, Medium, Metaphor Posted On : March 18, 2025 Category: Concepts People Positions Zoe-Egalitarianism: Rosi Braidotti, Politics and Equality Posted On : February 21, 2025 Category: Concepts Migration Posted On : February 18, 2025 Category: Concepts Fields Positions Transhumanism Posted On : October 16, 2024 Category: Concepts Fields Positions Memory After the Human: Posthumanist Memory and the Epimethean Elegiac Posted On : September 6, 2024 Category: Concepts Genealogy Critical Posthumanism   This entry originally appeared in Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds., Posthuman Glossary (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Reproduced with permission. Critical posthumanism is a theoretical approach which maps and engages with the “ongoing deconstruction of humanism”.[1] It differentiates between the figure of the ‘posthuman’ (and its present, past and projected avatars, like cyborgs, monsters, […] Continue Reading Posted On : November 17, 2017Written by: Stefan Herbrechter Category: Concepts Melancholic Nonhuman Processes: Disintegration, Diminishment, Refusal Melancholy is an inward withdrawal from worldly relations that paradoxically exposes the self to the horizon of dreaded mortality through temporal distortions and the paralyzing horrors of existence, while simultaneously and paradoxically yearning for solace in the unconscious oblivion of death. It warps temporal coherence and reduces speech to the muteness of asymbolia. In antiquity, […] Continue Reading Posted On : November 30, 2025Written by: Sasha Opeiko Category: Concepts Genealogy The Elements: Threshold Concept, Medium, Metaphor The spectre of “the elements” currently haunts the environmental humanities: this quasi-intuitive idea seems well on its way to replace Raymond Williams’ lamented word “Nature”.[1] Indeed, if “Nature” problematically relies on an essentialist dualist framework,[2] and even “environment” arguably seems to refer to that what surrounds the human, one of the allures of the turn […] Continue Reading Posted On : March 18, 2025Written by: Ludo de Roo Category: Concepts People Positions Zoe-Egalitarianism: Rosi Braidotti, Politics and Equality “Diego Rivera, Water, Origin of Life, 1951” ©  Joaquín Martínez 2012 Flickr under CC BY 2.0    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.[1] At the time it was written, the assertion of the universal equality of man found in the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) reflected the emancipatory spirit of a […] Continue Reading Posted On : February 21, 2025Written by: Fraser Gray Category: Concepts Migration In his essay ‘Butterfly Crossings’, anthropologist Anand Pandian observes how the monarch butterfly, Danaus Plexippus, gradually became a symbol in the protests in North America for the rights of undocumented migrants who try to cross the border between Mexico and the United States: ‘Monarchs are celebrated for their migration. But it isn’t simply how far […] Continue Reading Posted On : February 18, 2025Written by: Simona Adinolfi Category: Concepts Fields Positions Transhumanism Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the radical enhancement of human capacities using science and technology, that is, self-directed human evolution. There are many varieties of transhumanism, with no consensus on what the evolution should or will consist of. For example, some transhumanists envision a fusion with the digital, either in the form of […] Continue Reading Posted On : October 16, 2024Written by: Alexander Thomas Category: Concepts Fields Positions Memory After the Human: Posthumanist Memory and the Epimethean Elegiac This entry considers memory in the context of critical posthumanism, which might be perceived as the philosophical antidote to the more familiar transhumanist tendency that extends the humanist legacy by privileging the (white, masculine, heterosexual, Western) human subject as a universal category to be augmented, enhanced or transformed by means of various technologies. In this […] Continue Reading Posted On : September 6, 2024Written by: Russell J. A. Kilbourn Category: Concepts Genealogy Care/full Looking: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Account of Painting A line is simultaneously a colour, a texture, and a tone: it is the abutting edge of positive and negative, the breaking up and adjoining of two planes, the touching point of autonomous bodies. To see form[1] as relational, is an undoing of the human—no longer at the centre, or with a centre, from which […] Continue Reading Posted On : July 30, 2024Written by: Maegan Harbridge Category: Concepts Genealogy Extremophiles: Promise and the Posthuman It can neither be overstated nor stated too often that the covert sleight of hand upon which humanist and vitalist ideologies depend is the very same dissimulation that makes possible unfettered instrumentalization on a truly grand scale. Put simply, it is only once we cease to draw lines of exclusion dividing life from its absence […] Continue Reading Posted On : May 23, 2024Written by: Richard Iveson Category: Concepts Genealogy Positions Embodiment in Posthuman Rhetoric In “The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept”, Karma Chavez critically examines how rhetoric historically privileges certain abstract bodies, i.e. white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterosexual males, while invisibilising actual ones based on gender, race, ability, and sexual orientation. By introducing the concept of the “textual stare”,[1] Chavez provides a lens through which the rhetorical field […] Continue Reading Posted On : March 24, 2024Written by: Mehdi Mohammadi Category: Concepts Positions Vulner-ability Living in a world of multiple crises makes human and nonhuman vulnerability salient, defining and remedying the consequent vulnerability integral to many social and political agendas. My concept of vulner—ability is of a different nature. I come to it through a posthumanist material feminist conceptualisation of the human and nonhuman that also offers a rethinking […] Continue Reading Posted On : March 17, 2024Written by: Christine Daigle Posts navigation Older posts Browse the Genealogy Concepts (57) Fields (4) Genealogy (75) Objects (22) People (22) Positions (8) KeywordsAffect (5) agency (4) animal (5) animal studies (2) anthropocene (9) Anthropocentrism (6) anthropomorphism (4) Bernard Stiegler (2) Body (3) critical animal studies (3) critical posthumanism (7) cyberpunk (4) cyberspace (3) cyborg (2) deconstruction (2) Derrida (5) digital (4) entanglement (4) Epistemology (2) ethics (4) event (2) film (2) Freud (3) gender (2) Humanism (7) intra-action (3) literature (6) materialism (2) materiality (3) memory (3) Monster Theory (2) nature (3) new materialism (5) nonhuman (7) originary technicity (2) Phenomenology (2) posthuman (5) posthumanism (3) race (5) science fiction (4) subjectivity (3) technology (9) thinking (2) Transhumanism (4) transjectivity (2) Search for: CategoriesCategories Select Category Concepts Fields Genealogy Objects People Positions Recent Posts Melancholic Nonhuman Processes: Disintegration, Diminishment, Refusal The Elements: Threshold Concept, Medium, Metaphor Zoe-Egalitarianism: Rosi Braidotti, Politics and Equality Migration Transhumanism Critical Posthumanism Network Home of the Genealogy of the Posthuman Theme: Infinity Mag by ThemeinWP Critical Posthumanism Network Home of the Genealogy of the Posthuman Close Contact Usinfo@criticalposthumanism.netView @genealogyoftheposthuman’s profile on FacebookView @critposthum’s profile on Twitter scroll to topengben-GB1776558841https://criticalposthumanism.net

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