Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing

Sidney I. Dobrin

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781602354296
• eBook ISBN: 9781602354319
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Rhétorique

Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing is designed to spark conversation. It is intended to highlight the growing importance of posthumanist approaches to writing studies, and, in doing so, works to solidify the importance of such work to the future of writing studies. Its organizational structure, length, and approach serve this agenda, working as much to encourage a growing conversation as it does to provide substantial, original work from which such conversations might emerge. The thirteen original essays that comprise Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing are organized to provide a progression from articles that introduce theoretical concepts regarding the intersections of posthumanism and writing to works that examine specific contexts as vehicles for developing posthumanist theories.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Moving Beyond the Logic of Sacrifice: Animal Studies, Trauma Studies, and the Path to Posthumanism
• 3 Writing-Being: Another Look at the “Symbol-Using Animal”
• 4 Zombies / Writing: Awaiting Our Posthumous, Monstrous (Be)Coming
• 5 Wanting Ourselves: Writing (And) The Postsexual Subject
• 6 Becoming T@iled
• 7 Inscriptions of the Possible; or, A Pedagogy of Posthumanist Style
• 8 Rethinking Human and Non-Human Actors as a Strategy for Rhetorical Delivery
• 9 Utopian Laptop Initiatives: From Technological Deism to Object-Oriented Rhetoric
• 10 From Handwriting to ‘Brain’ Writing: Graphology and the Neuroscientific Turn
• 11 I Am Spam; A Posthuman Approach to Writer’s Block
• 12 Cyborg Vision for Cyborg Writing
• 13 Evolutionary Equality: Neocybernetic Posthumanism and Margulis and Sagan’s Writing Practice
• Contributors
• Index
• Back cover