🌿📚 #PosthumanFridays
This week: Sobre Dios. Pensar con Simone Weil by Byung-Chul Han.
A luminous meditation on attention, silence & decreation in dialogue with Simone Weil.
Against hyperproductivity and digital saturation, Han invites us to rediscover meaning through stillness and vulnerability.
Very pleased to contribute to this collective volume on literary criticism and ethics
Short overview of my chapter (context, key questions, references) 👇
www.growkudos.com/publications...
Full chapter (open access) 👇
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(Choose your preferred level of commitment😉)
We’re live on ResearchGate! 🚀👩🔬
Explore our research on posthumanism & crime fiction 📚✨
Meet the team & check our projects here 👉 www.researchgate.net/lab/The-Post...
#PosthumanStudies #AcademicTwitter #ResearchTeam
📚💡 Both chapters contribute to cutting-edge debates in posthumanist theory, literary ethics, AI studies & environmental humanities — and both are Open Access!
👏 Huge congratulations to our co-PIs Sonia Baelo-Allué and Mónica Calvo-Pascual!
In her chapter, Mónica Calvo-Pascual addresses the posthuman turn in the age of the Anthropocene 🌱🔥
• 🌎 Environmental crisis & the Sixth Extinction
• 📡 Techno-science & global capitalism
• 🧩 Post-anthropocentric agency
🌍📖 Chapter 27
“Critical Posthumanism, New Materialism and the Ethics of Inclusion in Speculative Fiction”
by Mónica Calvo-Pascual
(pp. 641–664)
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
In this chapter, Sonia Baelo-Allué explores how cybernetic posthumanism & transhumanism engage with the Fourth Industrial Revolution ⚙️💻
She examines ethical debates around:
• 🧬 Human enhancement
• 🤖 Artificial intelligence
• 🧠 Distributed cognition
🤖📖 Chapter 26
“The Ethics and Literature of Cybernetic Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Technological Other in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”
by Sonia Baelo-Allué
🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...
📢 We’re delighted to announce that our PIs
@soniabaeloallue.bsky.social and Mónica Calvo-Pascual have published two Open Access chapters in the Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics, edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau (@limlit-unizar.bsky.social). 👇
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Check out the thirty-second episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Laura María Sánchez Trujillo discusses the influence of Emily Dickinson on Adrienne Rich's "Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
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This week’s #PosthumanFridays pick is The Overstory by Richard Powers — a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that places trees at the heart of the narrative 🌳
📢 Friday PhD Talk #23 will be delivered by @luiskleiser.bsky.social
The title of his talk is “From the Classroom to the PhD: Being an Outsider, a Part-Time Researcher, and a Public Speaker.”
⏰ Thursday 27th February, 12:00h
📌 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Zaragoza)
🔬✨ Today we celebrate the outstanding women researchers in our group on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#11F).
Science is stronger, more diverse, and more innovative because of women. 💜
@filoinglesauz.bsky.social
In addition, next Thursday, our predoctoral researchers Amanda Cámara Gamazo, Alessandra Martín González, and Denisa Alexandra Mircea will carry out an outreach activity at IES Río Gállego, continuing our commitment to research dissemination and gender equality in science.
📢 Next Monday, our predoctoral researchers @mariaabizandac.bsky.social and @martabagues.bsky.social (@limlit-unizar.bsky.social) will take part in #WomenResearchersInTheClassroom, delivering a talk at IES Tiempos Modernos for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#11F).
Check out the thirtieth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Lola Ripoll Antolí discusses the influence of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" on Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
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Posthuman Fridays 📚
Jenny Offill’s Weather captures climate anxiety and planetary dread through fragmentary, intimate storytelling: what it feels like to live inside the crisis.
#PosthumanFridays #Weather #JennyOffill #ClimateFiction
📢 Don’t miss it! @mirfersan.bsky.social presents: “Writing an Abstract: The Difficulties of a Simple Task” for SAAS Young Scholars.
📝 Scan the QR code to register and join us! #AcademicTips #ResearchSkills #SAASYoungScholars
🚨 New on Substack! 🚨
Check out “Inteligencia Artificial: Realidad y/o ficción” by @anachapman.bsky.social & @mirfersan.bsky.social. 🤖💡
Read it here 👉https://open.substack.com/pub/anachapmanuma/p/inteligencia-artificial-realidad?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Check out the twenty-eighth episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where Nuria Murcia Ballesta discusses the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" on Bernard Malamud's "The Magic Barrel" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
youtu.be/TqhLJZ7cmR0?...
Our predoctoral researcher @mariaabizandac.bsky.social has presented the poster “Fomentar el pensamiento crítico a través de la literatura” at the XVIII Jornadas de Innovación, showcasing the results of a 3-year teaching innovation project by @filoinglesauz.bsky.social.
📚✨ This special issue brings together cutting-edge perspectives on posthumanism, literature, culture & politics. Stay tuned — we’ll be sharing more insights from each article soon! 🤓💡
🌍 Ecoterrorism & Ecological Affect – Laura García Soria explores The Ministry for the Future, analyzing ecological trauma, climate emotions & radical environmental activism through a posthuman lens 🌱🔥
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🌈 Queering the Posthuman – Laura Larrodera-Arcega examines Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous, showing how queer & trans identities intersect with bio-engineered beings, challenging norms & imagining fluid futures 🤖💫
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🌌 Black Utopia & Body Agency – Mónica Calvo Pascual analyzes Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts, exploring non-normative identities, kinship & posthuman relationality in speculative fiction 🖤✨:
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📝 Introduction to Posthumanism – Rubén & Ana set the stage for thinking beyond humanist frameworks. Learn how posthuman theory reshapes bodies, tech & identity today 🤖🌿
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🚨 Exciting news! Our team’s research features in a special issue on Posthumanism, edited by Rubén Peinado Abarrio & Ana Chapman 🧬✨
Explore it here: revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ES...
Check out the twenty-seventh episode of our podcast on #NorthAmericanLiterature, where África Sáez Egea discusses the influence of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" 🎙️✨
@posthumanuz.bsky.social
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🍬 Posthuman Fridays (a little late, still on point)
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan imagines a world where memories are uploaded, shared, and sold. When identity becomes data, who really owns the self?
#PosthumanFridays #TheCandyHouse #SpeculativeFiction #DigitalIdentity
