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#! (Montfort), 130–31 Aldington, Richard, 47–48

Alexander the Great, 11–12
Abrams, Meyer C., 29, 32 Alex and Me (Pepperberg), 86
Accelerando (Stross), 79 alien, nonhuman as, 145–47
Achituv, Romy, 128 Allen, Grant, 74–75
Ackerley, J. R., 86 All is Full of Love (videoclip), 109
Acquiring Genomes (Margulis), 162–64 Alphaville (film), 182, 186–88
actor-network theory (Latour), 49–52 anamnesis, Lyotard’s concept of, 57–58
Adorno, Theodor, 185–86, 187–88 androids
aesthetics, 29 in early modern humanism, 16
affect, 49–52, 54–56 in film, 182
aesthetic affect, 144–45, 174–77 in posthuman future, 164–65
of capitalism, 203–4 animals
of love, in SF film, 117–18 animal/machine to human transition,
metaphysics and, 172–74 86–87
nonhuman and, 86, 89–92, 105–7, 109, autobiography and, 86
141–42, 179–80 Cixous’s animots, 89–92
in modernist poetry, 177–79 in Enlightenment philosophy, 71–73
of past, 115–17 in graphic narratives, 98–103
technology and, 185–86 Jackson’s corporeal experiments and,
affirmative transformations, graphic 160–64
narratives and, 105–7 medieval humanism and, 4–8
Afrofuturist science fiction, 79–81 in modernism, 50–51
After Finitude (Meillassoux), 179–80 spoken language and gestures of, in
Afternoon (Joyce), 128 medieval literature, 9–10
Agamben, Giorgio, 40n.28, 123, 132–34 in video art, 87–89
agency The Animal That Therefore I Am (Derrida),
in E-Literature, 130–31 84–86
intelligent networks and role of, 19–23 anime literature, 182
of matter, 160 “animots,” Cixous’s concept of, 89–92
in onto-epistemological video art, anthropocentrism
87–89 bodies and, 153–54
technology and, 189–90 Cixous’s animots, 89–92
aisthesis, 171–77 future of posthumanism and, 200
Alaimo, Stacy, 89–92 nonhuman and, 142–44
Alan of Lille, 4–5 nonlinear history and, 201–3
“Alas, All Thinking!” (Bates), 74–75 posthumanism and, 49–52, 67n.28
Albright, Daniel, 132–34 technology and, 185–86

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anthropomorphism, early modern literature Barlam and Iosaphat (anonymous), xv–xvii,

and, 49–52 11–12
anti-Semitism, medieval human and Bate, Jonathan, 34–35
nonhuman and, 7–8 Bates, Harry, 74–75
“Aphorisms on Futurism” (Loy), 46–47 Battlestar Galactica (film), 182, 192–93
après coup (“after the event”), 60–63 Baudrillard, Jean, 142–44, 187–88
Aquilina, Mario, 121–34 Baum, Frank, 160–62
Aramis, or the Love of Technology (Latour), Bear, Greg, 78–79
152n.20 Bechdel, Alison, 96–97
Arens, Pit, xviii, 105–7 Beckett, Samuel, xvi, 49–52, 123
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama Beckett and Animals (Bryden), 50–51
(Bechdel), 96–97 “Becoming Bone Sheep” (Schlünder, Arens,
Aristotle, xvi, 201 and Gerhardt), xviii, 105–7
early modern humanism and precedent of, Bede, Venerable, 9–10
16–19 Beggars in Spain (Kress), 79
Shakespeare and, 19–23 “Being Prey” (Plumwood), 86
Armock, Mary, 75–76 Benjamin, Walter, 50–51, 189–90
“Art as Device” (Shklovsky), xxi, 171–72 Bennett, Jane, 49–52
artificial intelligence Bergson, Henri, xii–xiii, 42–43, 73–75
intelligent networks in The Tempest and, The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche), 41–43
19–23 “Bisclavret” (Marie de France), xv–xvii,
in new wave science fiction, 76 4–5, 9–10
in science fiction, 78–79 Björk, 109
“ascesis,” Derrida’s concept of, 196–98 Black Empire (Schuyler), 74–75
Ashes to Ashes (film), 114–15 Black Mirror (television series), 84–86, 87,
Asimov, Isaac, 182 92–93
Askin, Ridvan, xxi, 170–80 Blade Runner (film), 113–14, 192–93
assemblage, in graphic medicine, 98–103 Blaise of Parma, 8
Athenaeum Fragment 116 (Schlegel), Blanchot, Maurice, 130–31
124–26 BLAST (Lewis), 43–48
Attridge, Derek, 131–32 BLAST I, 46–47
Augustine (Saint), xviii Blood Music (Bear), 78–79
Augustine of Hippo (Saint), 5–6 bodies (body)
authenticity, in illness narrative, 154–57 imagineering for posthuman future,
autism, memory and, 86–87 164–65
autobiography Jackson’s corporeal experiments, 160–64
animal/machine to human transition and, in posthumanism, 153–65
86–87 transcorporeality and, 154–57
forgetting and, 92–93 Böhme, Gernot, 160
(in)hospitable selves and, 89–92 books, intelligent networks in The Tempest
memory grains and, 84–86 and role of, 19–23
onto-epistemological video art and, 87–89 Bordwell, David, 110–11
posthumanism and, xviii, 84–93 Borges, Jorge Luis, 128
video art, 87–89 Boyle, Danny, 204–6
autonomous machines, Aristotle’s discussion Bradley Lane, Mary E., 74–75
of, 16–19 Brahman philosophy, 11–12
autopoiesis, 124–26 Braidotti, Rosi, 45–48, 63–65, 96–97, 105–7,
Avidus of Crete (King), 5 109–10
“Aye, and Gomorrah” (Delany), 76 Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut), 187–88
“The Breathing Wall” (Pulling), 128
Badmington, Neil, 118 Broglio, Ron, xvi, 29–39, 71
Ballard, J. G., 204–6 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 182
Barad, Karen, 49–52, 87, 167n.13 Bryden, Mary, 50–51

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Buckley, Arabella, 74–75 Condorcet, Marquis de, 71–73

Buddhism, medieval humanism and, 11–12 Confessions (St. Augustine), xviii
Burton, Robert, 160 Configurations (journal), 105–7
Butler, Judith, 84–86 contemporary literary discourse,
Butler, Octavia, 79–81, 193 posthumanism and, 64
The Butterfly Effect (film), 114–15 “Contempt for Peasants,” 7–8
Byron (Lord), 39 copyright law, 160–62
corporeal experiments, posthumanism and,
Cadigan, Pat, 78–81 160–64
Callus, Ivan, 121–34, 195n.22 “corpo-reality,” posthumanist discourse
cannibalism, human and nonhuman and, 7–8 on, xx
The Cassini Division (MacLeod), 79 corpus, in illness narrative, 154–57
Caughie, Pamela, 50–51 correlationism, Meillassoux’s concept of,
Chabon, Michael, 64 179–80
Chandra, Vikram, 132–34 creation, in literature, 179–80
change, politics of, 56–60 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 35–39
Chaplin, Charles, xii–xiii Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 172
Charlemagne, 6 crusades, human and nonhuman in, 7–8
Charnas, Suzy McKee, 79–81 “Cultivating Humanity: Towards a Non-
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 9–10 Humanist Ethics of Technology”
childhood (Verbeek), 150
Lyotard’s concept of, 54–56 cultural production, technology and, 187–88
in science fiction, 75–76 Cuvier, George, 36–38
Childhood’s End (Clarke), 75–76 cybernetic posthumanism, xvi
chivalric literature, 11–12 in film, 110–11
humanism and non-humans in, 6–7 cyberpunk literature, 78–79, 187–88
Chrétien de Troyes, 9–10 cyborg imaginary
Christina Mirabilis (the Astonishing), cinematic cyborg, 109–10
xv–xvii, 9 digitization of memory and, 114–15
chronologies of posthumanism, xxv–xxxiv in early modern humanism, 16
Cixous, Hélène, 89–92 in feminist science fiction, 79–81, 83n.27
Clark, Timothy, 200 in illness narrative, 154–57
Clarke, Arthur C., 75–76 in new wave science fiction, 76
Clarke, Bruce, xx, 141–51, 193 nonhuman and, 192–93
classical philosophy, xvi posthumanism and, xiv–xv, xvi, 164–65
coding, E-Literature and, 131–32 in science fiction film, xix
cognition, technologies of, 199–200 self-reparation in film and, 111–13
Cognition in the Wild (Hutchins), 18 “Cyborg Manifesto” (Haraway), 46–47,
cognitive revolution, science fiction and, 79–81, 109–10
76–78
Cohen, Ed, 164–65 Dadaist Manifesto (Tzara), 47–48
Cohen, Tom, 192–93 Daedalus, myth of, 17
Colebrook, Claire, xxii, 196–206 Dahl, Roald, 127
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 32, 35–39 Danielewski, Mark Z., 64
comic books, literary posthumanism and, Dark City (film), 187–88
xviii, 96–107 Darwin, Charles, xx, 36–38, 42–43, 73–75,
Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 98–103 145–47
“companion species”, Haraway’s concept of, Darwin, Erasmus, 72–73
154–57 David B., xviii, 98–103
“Completed Portrait” (Stein), 51–52 “Day at the Beach” (Emshwiller), 75–76
Compositionism, 49–52 Debord, Guy, xxi, 187–88
computer programming, E-Literature and, deconstructionism, 34
130–31 future of posthumanism and, 196–98

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de Landa, Manuel, 201–3 Edwardian radicalism, 48

Delany, Samuel R., 76 Egan, Greg, 78–79
Deleuze, Gilles, xvii, xxi, 42–43, 49–52, egoism, literary modernism and, 47–48
61–63, 98–103, 170–74, 178–79, 201–4 The Egoist (journal), 46–47
DeLillo, Don, 187–88 The Ego and His Own (Stirner), 47–48
de Man, Paul, 154–57 Eisner, Will, 98–103
Derrida, Jacques, 34–35, 192–93, 196–98, “electric language,” 131–32
199–200 Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the
on autobiography, 84–86, 87 Literary (Hayles), 121–22
on history, 61–63 Electronic Literature Organization, 121–22,
metaphysics of, 54–56 126–32
supplementarity of, xiv–xv Eliot, T. S., 43–48, 199–200
de Saussure, Ferdinand, 127 E-Literature
Descartes, René, 50–51, 160–62 legacy of, 132–34
Despret, Vinciane, 92 posthumanism and, 121–34
destratification, posthumanism and, 201–3 preservation of, 127
determinism, technological, 185–86 Ellis, Jason W., xviii, 71–81
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Ellison, Harlan, 76
Adorno), 185–86 embodiment, 131–32
Diaspora (Egan), 78–79 Emergence (Grandin), 86–87
Dick, Philip K., 76, 187–88 Emile (Rousseau), 37–38
Dickens, Charles, 182 Emshwiller, Carol, 75–76
Dickinson, Emily, 130–31 “The Ends of Man” (Derrida), 196–98
Diedrich, Lisa, xviii, 96–107 Enlightenment philosophy
Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), xvii, dialectic of technologies, 182–86
172–74, 201–4 posthumanism and, 71–73, 160–62
digital technology science fiction and, 71
E-Literature and, 121–22 enstrangement, Shklovsky’s concept of,
science fiction and, 78–79 171–72
digitization of memory, in science fiction film, entanglement, Lyotard’s discussion of
114–15 posthumanism and, 57–58
dimensionality, in E-Literature, 130–31 Epileptic (David B.), xviii, 98–103
Dindimus, 11–12 Equiano, Olaudah, 33
Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 33 Escher, M. C., 117
Diski, Jenni, 86 esthetic object, posthumanism and, xxi
“Disputation Between the Body and Worms,” eternal recurrence (Nietzsche), posthumanism
(Middle English poem), 7–8 and, 204–6
divinatory criticism, 124–26 eternal return, Nietzsche’s concept o, xxii
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (film),
(Dick), 76 115–17
“Doctor Diabolicus.” See Blaise of Parma eugenics debate, science fiction and,
Doctorow, Cory, 79 75–76
Doctor Who (television series), 182 Eve of Destruction (film), 110–13
Douglass, Jeremy, 132–34 evolution
Dr. Bloodmoney (Dick), 76 in early science fiction, 73–75
The Dreamlife of Letters (Stefans), 130–31 endosymbiotic theory of, 162–64
Dr. Faustus (Marloe), xvi, 16, 23–26 nonhuman and, 145–47
dystopian fantasy “The Evolutionary Monstrosity” (Harris),
memory digitization and, 115 74–75
technology and, 184 exclusive disjunction, 201–4
eXistenZ (film), 187–88
early modern humanism, 16–26 Ex Machina (film), 109, 112–13, 117–18
ecology, posthumanism and, 63–65 Exquisite Corpses (game), 127

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Facade (Mateas and Stern), 128 Funkhouser, Christopher, 127

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 187–88 future
The Female Man (Russ), 79–81 divided futures, 196–98
“Feminist Manifesto” (Loy), 46–47 inclusive disjunctions in, 201–4
feminist theory of posthumanism, 196–206
autobiography and, 89–92 Futurism, feminist interpretations and, 46–47
cyborg imaginary in, 109–10
modernity and, 45–48 Galatea 2.2 (Powers), xxi, 78–79, 127
on posthuman condition, 96–97 Galouye, Daniel F., 187–88
posthumanist discourse and, xx Gamble, Eliza Burt, 74–75
science fiction and, 74–75, 79–81 games, literature as, 128
Fernihough, Anne, 48 García Márquez, Gabriel, 59–60
feudalism, posthumanism and, 3 “The Garden of Forking Paths” (Borges), 128
fiction, as E-Literature, 126–32 Garnett, Edward, 47–48
Fies, Brian, 103–7 Gaskell, Elizabeth, 182
film Gates, Bill, 21
affect of love in, 117–18 Gee, Maggie, 204–6
cinematic cyborg in, 109–10 “geek sublime,” 132–34
cybernetic point of view in, 110–11 Generation “II” (Pelevin), 187–88
cyborg in science fiction film, xix Generation P (film), 187–88
digitization of memory in, 114–15 Gerhardt, Ael, xviii, 105–7
human and nonhuman in, 37 Ghost in the Shell (film), 114–15, 187–88,
mediated memory in, 113–14 192–93
memory and metaphors of, 86–87 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (film), 187–88
narrative complexity in, 115–17 Gibson, William, 78–79, 115, 187–88,
posthumanism and, 109–18 190–92
self-reparation in mirror of, 111–13 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 74–75
technology in, 182, 187–88 The Girl Who was Plugged In (Tiptree),
Final Cut (film), 114–15 187–88
A Fire Upon the Deep (Vinge), 79 globalization, postmodernism and, 54–56
“First Born,” 75–76 Godard, Jean-Luc, 182, 186–88
The Flood (film), 204–6 “The Golden Man” (Dick), 76
Flowers for Algernon (Keyes), 76 Goodwin, Brian, 168n.39
Flush (Woolf), 50–51 Goody, Alex, 50–51
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 64 Goonan, Kathleen Ann, 78–81
Forbidden Planet (film), 182 Gothic literature, emergence of, 72–73
Forney, Ellen, xviii, 98–103 Gottleib, Phyllis, 75–76
Foucault, Michel, 33–35 Grandin, Temple, 86–87, 92–93
Frankenstein (film), 37, 160–62 graphic medicine, 97–103
Frankenstein (Shelley), 36–38, 71, 72–73, graphic narratives, xviii, 96–107
79–81, 160–62, 182 deconstruction of subjectivity in, 103–7
Frankfurt School, 185–86, 187–88 Green, Michael J., 97
free will, in medieval humanism, 10–12 Grey, Thomas, 35–39
Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Grosz, Elizabeth, 42–43
Radicals and Literary Modernism Grusin, Richard, 142–44
(Fernihough), 48 Guattari, Félix, 42–43, 49–52, 98–103,
The Freewoman (journal), 46–47 172–74, 178–79, 201–4
Freud, Sigmund, 62–63
on memory, 84–86 Haldane, J. B. S., 74–75
“Frost at Midnight” (Coleridge), 32 Half Life (Jackson), xx, 160–64
Fuller, Margaret, xxi, 170–72 Hamilton, Edmond, 74–75
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Bechdel), Hankins, Gabriel, 49–52
96–97 Hansen, Mark B. N., 117, 131–34

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Haraway, Donna, xxi, 46–47, 50–51, 79–81, Impressions d’Afrique (Roussel), 127
86, 109–10, 190–92 Inception (film), 114–17, 187–88
Hardt, Michael, 188 “Indissoluble Matrimony” (West), 46–47
Harris, Clare Winger, 74–75 individual
“Hart-Leap Well” (Wordsworth), 39n.12 in Enlightenment philosophy, 160–62
Hassan, Ihab, xi–xiii, 153–54 literary valorization of, 124–26
Hauffe, Friederike, 174–77 Industrial Revolution, 182–86
hauntology, Derrida’s concept of, 61–63 informatization
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 72–73 identity and, 189–90
Hayles, N. Katherine, 121–22, 124–26, technologies and, 186–88
162–64, 190–92 The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (Lyotard),
heart as metaphor, Nancy’s use of, 154–57 xvii, 54–56
Heidegger, Martin, 34–35, 150, 192–93 intelligent networks
Heim, Michael, 131–32 in Dr. Faustus, 23–26
Hephaestus, Aristotle’s discussion of, 18 in early modern humanism, 16
Her (film), 109, 112–13, 117–18 posthumanism and, xvi
heraldry, human and nonhuman in, 6–7 in The Tempest, 19–23
Herbrechter, Stefan, xvii, 54–66, 84–86, 123, intelligent tools, Aristotle’s concept of, 18
195n.22 intercorporeality, identity and, 160–64
history, postmodernism and, 54–56, 60–63 interiority
The History of Sexuality (Foucault), 33 privileged interiority of Wordsworth,
Horkheimer, Max, 185–86, 187–88 30–32
How We Became Posthuman (Hayles), Romanticism and, 35–39
121–22 “Interpretation of Sex II” (Marsden), 46–47
How We Got Along after the Bomb (Dick), 76 intertextuality, postmodernist fiction and,
Hulme, T. E., 43–48 59–60
humanism, in literature, 122–24 “Into the 28th Century” (Lorraine), 74–75
humanoids, in early modern humanism, 16 “intra-action” Barad’s concept of, 167n.13
human-robot hybrid, in illness narrative, Irving, John, 59–60
154–57 Ishiguro, Kazuo, 124–26
human subjection, intelligent technology
and, 21 Jackson, Shelley, xx, 128, 160–64
Hutchins, Edwin, 18, 19–23 Jacob’s Room (Woolf), 49–52
hybrid autographics, 96–97 James, William, 51–52
in illness narrative, 154–57 Jameson, Fredric, 60, 188
mediated memory in film and, 113–14 Jockers, Matthew, 130–31
“hyper-aesthesia,” Pound’s concept of, Johnny Mnemonic (film), 115
132–34 Johnston, David Jhave, 130–31
hyper-individualism, high modernist aesthetic Joy, Bill, 21
and, 48 Joyce, James, xvi, 43–48
hypertext fiction, 128 Joyce, Michael, 128
of Jackson, 160–64 Judaism, medieval human and nonhuman
and, 7–8
Ice People (film), 204–6
“I Do not Know What it is I am Like” (Viola), Kac, Edouardo, 130–31
87–89 Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Deleuze
“If I Told Him” (Stein), 51–52 and Guattari), 98–103
“I Have No Mouth an I Must Scream” Kant, Immanuel, 35–39, 84–86, 172
(Ellison), 76 Keats, John, xvi, 32, 35–39
Iliad (Homer), 17 sublime of, 35–39
illness, in graphic medicine, 98–103, 154–57 Keyes, Daniel, 76
deconstruction of subjectivity and, 103–7 Konungs skuggsjá (King’s Mirror), 4–5
immortality, in medieval humanism, 8–9 Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett), 50–51

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Kress, Nancy, 79 twenty-first century literary theory of,

Kuusisto, Stephen, 86 196–98
Locke, John, 160–62
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 124–26 Lorraine, Lilith, 74–75
LaGrandeur, Kevin, xvi, 16–26 Lovecraft, H. P., 71
Landow, George, 128 Loy, Mina, 46–47
Landsberg, Alison, 112–13 Luhmann, Niklas, 124–26, 141–42
Lang, Fritz, xxi, 45–48, 186–88 Lusignans, 5
language Lyell, Charles, 145–47
deconstructionist theory and, 34 Lyotard, Jean-François, xvii, 54–56
“electric language,” Heim’s concept of on posthumanism, 65–66
131–32 on postmodernism, 57–58, 142–44
literature and, 124–26 Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth), 29, 39n.12
in postmodernist metafiction, 59–60
spoken language and gesture in medieval MacLeod, Ken, 79
humanism and, 9–10 Macpherson, C. B., 160–62
technology and, 186–88 magic realism, 59–60
Last and First Men (Stapleton), 73–75 Mallarmé, Stephan, 49–52, 127
“The Last Judgment” (Haldane), 74–75 manga literature, 182
Latour, Bruno, xx, 49–52, 142–44, 146–47, manic-depressive illness, graphic depictions
152n.20, 203–4 of, 98–103
Lawrence, D. H., xx, 42–43, 44–45, 47–48 Manning, Laurence, 74–75
nonhuman in, 147–50 Man Plus (Pohl), 77
The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin), 76 “The Man Who Evolved” (Hamilton), 74–75
LeGuin, Ursula K., 76 “The Man Who Woke” (Manning), 74–75
Lenoir, Timothy, 78–79 The Man without Content (Agamben),
Lensman fiction series (Smith), 74–75 132–34
“Letter on the Cynocephali” (Ratramnus of The Man without Qualities (Musil), 123
Corbie), 6 Marbles, Mania, Depression, Michelangelo,
letters, in E-Literature, 130–31 and Me (Forney), xviii, 98–103
L’Éve future (Villiers de l’Isle-Adam), 182 Marcuse, Herbert, xxi, 185–86
Levin, Ira, 182 Margulis, Lynn, 162–64
Lewis, Jason, 128 Marie de France, xv–xvii, 4–5, 9–10
Lewis, Wyndham, xvi, 43–48 Marinetti, F. T., 43–48
L’Herbier, Marcel, 45–48 Marino, Mark C., 132–34
Life 2.0 (film), 187–88 Marlowe, Christopher, xvi, 16, 23–26
Life on Mars (television series), 114–15 Marsden, Dora, xvi, 46–47, 48
L’Inhumaine (L’Herbier), 45–48 Marsilius of Padua, 5–6
L’Intrus (The Intruder) (Nancy), 154–57, Marx, Karl, medieval humanism and, 5–6
164–65 Massumi, Brian, 98–103
“L’Intrus” (“The Intruder”) (Nancy), xx master-slave system
”Literary Absolute,” 124–26 Aristotle on, 16–19
literary modes of posthumanism, xvii–xix in Dr. Faustus, 23–26
literary periods, posthumanism and, xv–xvii Mateas, Michael, 128
literary posthumanism, evolution of, xi–xiii materiality of theory, 49–52
literature maternal figures
creation in, 179–80 in science fiction, 75–76
mutual suspicion between posthumanism in SF film, 120n.22
and, 124–26 mathematics, in graphic narratives, 103–7
objects in, 170–72 The Matrix (film series), 21, 25, 182, 187–88
posthumanism and future of, 65–66, matter, agency and consciousness of, 160
122–24 Maturana, Humberto, 193
speculative metaphysics in, 172–74 Maude, Ulrika, 50–51

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Maus (Spiegelman), 96–97 in poetry, 177–79

McCaffrey, Anne, 76 politics of change and, 56–60
McElroy, Joseph, 77 posthumanism and, 41–52
McGann, Joseph, 33, 131–32 Mom’s Cancer (Fies), xviii, 103–7
McGurl, Mark, xii–xiii “Mont Blanc” (Shelley), 32
mechanical technologies Montfort, Nick, 126, 128, 130–31
anthropocentrism concerning, 50–51 Moore, Alan, 190–92
Aristotle and, 16–19 Moore, C. L., 74–75
heroic-egotistic in modernity and, 45–48 “Moore’s Law,” 78–79
literary engagement with, xxi Moravec, Hans, xiv–xv
machinic “assemblages” (Deleuze/ More Human Than Human (Sturgeon),
Guattari), 49–52 75–76
in medieval humanism, 10–12 Moretti, Franco, 130–31
posthumanism and, 63–65 Morrison, Toni, 64
Medical Humanities, 97 Motherlines series (Charnas), 79–81
medieval humanism Moulthrop, Stuart, 128
animals and humans in, 4–8 multimodality, in E-Literature, 130–31
free will vs. mechanicity in, 10–12 Murphy (Beckett), 49–52
mobile and everlasting bodies in, 8–9 Musil, Robert, 123
posthumanism and, xv–xvii, 3–12 Musk, Elon, 21
spoken language and gesture and, 9–10 Mutant (Padgett), 75–76
Meillassoux, Quentin, 127, 179–80 mutational romance, in mid-century science
Melancholia (film), 204–6 fiction, 75–76
The Melancholy of Anatomy (Jackson), xx, my body – a Wunderkammer (Jackson), xx
160–64 My Dog Tulip (Ackerley), 86
Mellor, Anne, 72–73 Myers, Kimberly R., 97
Melusine, 5
Melville, Herman, 130–31, 182 Nachträglichkeit, 62–63
memory Nadeau, Bruno, 128
autobiography and grains of, 84–86 Nancy, Jean-Luc, xx, 124–26, 154–57,
digitization of, 114–15 164–65
film and mediation of, 113–14 Nanotech Quartet (Goonan), 78–79
in Grandin’s Emergence, 86–87 Napoleon, 51–52
Merril, Judith, 75–76 “Narrating Lives” (Smith), 84–86
Metafiction (Waugh), xvii narrative complexity, in science fiction film,
metafictionality, 59–60 115–17
metaphor Native Americans, 174–77
in E-Literature, 127 natural philosophy, medieval humanism
in illness narrative, 154–57 and, 8–9
Metropolis (film), xxi, 45–48, 186–88 Negri, Antonio, 188
Mill, John Stuart, 32 Nelson, Ted, 128
Mind Children (Moravec), xiv–xv Neuromancer (Gibson), 78–79, 152n.21
Minority Report (film), 112–13, 114–15 Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 124–26
The Mirror and the Lamp (Abrams), 29 New Age (Orage), 48
Mitchell, David, 64 new biology, 162–64, 168n.39
Moby Dick (Melville), 130–31 new historicism, emergence of, 33–35
modernism new wave science fiction, 76–78
heroic-egotistic in literature of, 43–48 Nietzsche, Friedrich, xvi, xxii, 37
heroism and anthropocentrism and, 48–52 eternal recurrences of, 204–6
Lyotard’s discussion of postmodernism high modernist aesthetic and, 48
and, 57–58 on memory, 84–86
Nietzsche and, 41–43 Superman concept of, 41–52
nonhuman and, 142–44 Nineten Eighty-Four (Orwell), 186–88

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noesis, 174–77 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

nonhistory, Latour’s discussion of, 203–4 (Satrapi), 96–97
nonhuman Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Satrapi),
in autobiography, 86 96–97
Cixous’s animots, 89–92 The Persistence of Vision (Varley), 76
in Frankenstein, 36–38 pharmakon, technology as, 198
in medieval literature, 3–12 Picasso, Pablo, 51–52
from natural selection to alien, 145–47 Pick, Daniel, 42–43
nonmodern and, 142–44 Piercy, Marge, 79–81
posthumanism and, xx, 141–51 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 117
sensations and, 179–80 Planet of the Blind (Kuusisto), 86
sublime and, 144–45 Plumwood, Valerie, 86
technology and, 190–93 pluralism, posthumanist history and, 61–63
in video art, 87–89 Plus (McElroy), 77
nonlinear history, post humanism and, Poe, Edgar Allan, 72–73
201–3 poetry
nonmodern as E-Literature, 126–32
nonhuman and, 142–44 modernist poetry, 177–79
postmodern vs., xx Pohl, Frederik, 77
“No Woman Born” (Moore), 74–75 poiēsis, 192–93
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (Chaucer), 9–10 point-of-view (POV), cybernetic point of view
in film, 110–11
objects, in posthumanist literature, 170–80 poisson chevalier, 11–12
Oblivion (film), 112–13 Politics (Aristotle), xvi
Octavian (chivalric romance), 10–12 early modern humanism and precedent of,
“Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 32 16–19
“Ode to Autumn” (Keats), xvi, 35–39 Pope, Alexander, 122–24
Offray de la Mettrie, Julien, 71–73 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce),
Of Grammatology (Derrida), 34 44–45
Olson, Charles, xxi, 170–72, 177–79 posthumanism
Orage, A. R., 48 academic scholarship on, xiii–xv
The Order of Things (Foucault), 33 anthropocentrism and, 49–52
organon, Aristotle’s concept of, 18 Aristotle’s precedent for, 16–19
Origin of Species (Darwin), xx, 36–38, autobiography and, xviii, 84–93
145–47 bodies in, 153–65
Orwell, George, 186–88 chronologies of, xxv–xxxiv
OuLiPo, 127, 130–31 in comics and graphic narratives, 96–107
“Out of the Void,” (Stone) 74–75 early modern humanism and, 16–26
E-Literature and, 121–34
Padgett, Lewis, 75–76 events and, 63–65
Paine, Thomas, 33 evolutionary philosophy and, 73–75
“Pallinghurst Barrow” (Allen), 74–75 evolution of, xi–xiii
panaesthetics, E-Literature and, 132–34 in film, 109–18
Paprika (film), 187–88 future of, 196–206
The Pasteurization of France (Latour), heroic-egotistic in, 43–48
142–44 intelligent networks in The Tempest and,
Patchwork Girl (Jackson), xx, 128, 160–64 19–23
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Baum), 160–62 literary modes, xvii–xix
patent law, 160–62 medieval philosophy and, 8
Pathfinders project, 127, 168n.30 memory and, 84–86
Pelevin, Viktor, 187–88 modernity, 41–52
Pepperberg, Irene, 86 mutual suspicion between literature and,
The Perfect Woman (film), 182 124–26

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posthumanism (cont.) rationalization, technologies and, 186–88

nonhuman and, 141–51 Ratramnus of Corbie, 6
objects in, 170–80 Raw magazine, 96–97
“post” concepts in, 56–60 Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of
postmodernism and, 54–66 William Poundstone’ Project for
reconstructionism and, 65 Tachitoscope (Bottomless Pit), 132–34
Romanticism and, xx, 29–39 Real Humans (television series), 109
science fiction and, 71–81 reconstructionism, posthumanism and, 65
technologies and, 182–93 Renan, Ernst, 84–86
themes of, xx–xxii repetition, posthumanist history and, 61–63
posthumanist performativity, 167n.13 Richardson, Dorothy, 47–48
Posthuman Metamorphosis (Clarke), 193 Richard the Lionheart, 7–8
“The Posthuman Comedy” (McGurl), xii–xiii Rights of Man (Paine), 33
postmodernism Rights of Women (Wollstonecraft), 33
events and, 63–65 Rimbaud, Artur, 49–52
history and, 54–56, 60–63 “The Ring of” (Olson), xxi, 170–72, 177–79
literature, criticism and theory discourses Robinson, Mary, 35–39
and, 59–60 RoboCop (film), 110–14
Lyotard’s discussion of, 57–58 robots, 182
nonhuman and, 142–44 “Robotskin” (film), 109
“post” concepts in, 56–60 Rohman, Carrie, 50–51
posthumanism and, xvii, 54–66 Romanticism
technology, 189–90 landscape aesthetics of, 35–39
postmodern performance, xi–xiii in late twentieth century, 33–35
The Postmodern Condition (Lyotard), literary modernism’s revolt against, 43–48
142–44 posthumanism and, xvi, 29–39
The Postmodern Explained to Children postmodern vs. nonmodern in, xx
(Lyotard), xvii travel narrative in, 174–77
poststructuralism, literature and, 124–26 The Romantic Ideology (McGann), 33
Pound, Ezra, xvi, 43–48, 132–34 A Room of One’s Own (Woolf), 89
Powers, Richard, xxi, 78–79, 127 Rorty, Richard, 198
“Preface” to Lyrical Ballads Rosen, Jeffery, 84–86
(Wordsworth), 29 Rossini, Manuela, xx, 153–65
prehension concept, 49–52 Rotgerio (Knight), 7–8
Prelude (Wordsworth), xx, 144–45 Roth, Michae, 84–86
Pressman, Jessica, 132–34 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 34, 37–38, 55
Principles of Geology (Lyell), 145–47 Roussel, Raymond, 127
“Prometheus as Performer: Toward Rushdie, Salman, 59–60
a Posthumanist Culture? A University Russ, Joanna, 79–81
Masque in Five Scenes” (Hassan), xi–xiii Russian formalism, 171–72
psychosomatic unity, medieval humanism Rutsky, R. L., xxi, 182–93
and, 8 Ryan, Derek, 49–52
Pullinger, Kate, 128
Sacks, Oliver, 87
“The Question Concerning Technology” Sagan, Dorion, 162–64
(Heidegger), 192–93 Saga of Hrolf Kraki, 4–5
Quick, Dorothy, 74–75 Sandilands, Catriona, 89–92
Schismatrix Plus (Sterling), 78–79
Raley, Rita, 131–32 Schlünder, Martina, xviii, 105–7
The Rapture of the Nerds: A Tale of the Schuyler, George S., 74–75
Singularity, Posthumanity, and science
Awkward Social Situations (Doctorow nonhuman and, 142–44
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science, literature and, 49–52 slavery

science fiction Aristotle on, 16–19
affect of love in SF film, 117–18 in Romantic literature, 37, 40n.27
cinematic cyborg in, 109–10 science fiction and, 74–75
cybernetic point of view in films of, “slippingglimpse” (Strickland), 130–31
110–11 Sloterdijk, Peter, 57, 145–47
cyberpunk and AI in, 78–79 Smelik, Anneke, xix, 109–18
Enlightenment philosophy and, 71–73 Smith, E. E. “Doc,” 74–75
evolution in early SF literature, 73–75 Smith, Sidonie, 84–86
feminist science fiction and, 79–81 Snow Crash (Stephenson), 187–88
imagineering of bodies in, 164–65 social Darwinism, 201–3
literary posthumanism and, xviii science fiction and, 73–75
mutational romance and, 75–76 social science, science fiction and, 76–78
new wave in, 76–78 sonambulism, in literature, 176
posthumanism and, 71–81 The Song of the Earth (Keats), 34–35
technologies in, 182–86 Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 44–45
A Scientific Romance (Wright), xx, 148–50 Sontag, Susan, 154–57
Screen (Wardrip-Fruin), 128 “Sooth” (Johnston), 130–31
“Sea and Spar Between” (Montfort and Source Code (film), 114–17
Strickland), 130–31 speculative metaphysics, in literature,
Searle, John, 199–200 172–74, 179–80
second-order systems theory, 23–26, 27n.9 Spiegelman, Art, 96–97
self spirit, intelligent networks and role of, 19–23
autopoiesis and, 124–26 Stalker (Tarkovsky), 193
Enlightenment philosophy and realization Stanford Literary Lab, 130–31
of, 71–73 Stapledon, Olaf, 73–75
Foucault’s concept of, 33–35 Star Trek: The Next Generation (film), 182,
(in)hospitable selves in autobiography, 192–93
89–92 Star Wars (film), 182
self-reflexivity of postmodernism, 60 “state of exception,” Agamben’s concept of,
self-reparation, in science fiction film, 111–13 40n.28
sensation, human-nonhuman and, 179–80 Steel, Karl, xv–xvii, 3–12
Serres, Michel, 148–50 Stefans, Brian Kim, 130–31
The Shadow Out of Time (Lovecraft), 71 Stein, Gertrude, xvi, 51–52
Shakespeare, William, xvi, 16 Stepford Wives (Levin), 182
intelligent networks in work of, 19–23 Stephenson, Neal, 187–88
Shaviro, Steven, 41, 49–52 Sterling, Bruce, 78–79
Shelley, Mary Wollestonecraft, 33, 36–38, 71, Stern, Andrew, 128
72–73, 79–81, 160–62, 182 Stiegler, Bernard, xxi, 185–86, 192–93, 198
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 32 “Stigmata, Or Job the Dog” (Cixous),
Shildrick, Margrit, 98–103 89–92
The Ship Who Sang (McCaffrey), 76 Still Standing (Nadeau and Lewis), 128
Shklovsky, Viktor, xxi, 171–74 Stirner, Max, 47–48
Short Circuit (film), 182 Stone, Leslie F., 74–75
Silverman, Kaja, 113–14 “Strange Orchids” (Quick), 74–75
Simanowski, Roberto, 131–32 Strapi, Marjane, 96–97
Simulacron-3 (Galouye), 187–88 Strickland, Stephanie, 130–31
Sinclair, Clive, 59–60 Stross, Charles, 79
Singularity Strugatsky, Arkady, 193
in E-Literature, 131–32 Strugatsky, Boris, 193
in science fiction, 79 Sturgeon, Theodore, 75–76
“Skin” project (Jackson), xx, 162–64 subjectivity, graphic narrative deconstruction
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sublime The Thirteenth Floor (film), 187–88

“geek sublime,” 132–34 Thomas, D. M., 59–60
Kant’s exposition on, 35–39 Thomas of Cantimpré, 9
nonhuman and, 144–45 Thompson, Kristin, 110–11
postmodern vs. nonmodern, xx Thompson, William Irwin, 168n.39
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (Fuller), xxi, A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari),
170–72, 174–77 98–103
Sunburst (Gottleib), 75–76 A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (de
Sunshine (film), 204–6 Landa), 201–3
supplementarity, posthumanism and, xiv–xv “Three Laws of Robotics” (Asimov), 182
Swan Book (Wright), 204–6 Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 41–43
Swift, Graham, xvii, 54 The Time Machine (Wells), 73–75, 148–50
postmodernist fiction of, 54–56, 59–60 “Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth), xvi, 30–32
Swift, Jonathan, 127 Tiptree, James Jr., 187–88
Symboliste aesthetic, 49–52 Total Recall (film), 113–14
Synners (Cadigan), 78–79 Transcendence (film), xiv–xv, 112–13
systems theory, 124–26 transcendental empiricism, Deleuze’s concept
early modern literature and, 26 of, 172–74
nonhuman and, 141–42 transcorporeality, 154–57
transhumanism, technology and, 190–93
Tactical Media (Raley), 131–32 trauma, repetition and, 62–63
technē, 192–93, 196–98 travel narrative, literary objects in, 174–77
technesis, 131–32 Tron: Legacy (film), 187–88
“Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature” The Truman Show (film), 187–88
(Marinetti), 47–48 2046 (film), 115–17
technologies 2001 – A Space Odyssey (film), xi–xiii, 21
anthropocentrism concerning, 50–51 Tzara, Tristan, 47–48
Aristotle and, 16–19
destructive effects of, 196–98 Übermensch, Nietzsche’s concept of, xvi
dialectic of, 182–86 untimeliness in, 41–43
heroic-egotistic in modernity and, 45–48 Ubik (Dick), 187–88
identity and, 189–90 The Ugly Swans (Lopushansky), 193
literary engagement with, xxi univocity, Whitehead’s concept of, 49–52
machinic “assemblages” (Deleuze/ utopian fantasy
Guattari), 49–52 memory digitization and, 115
in medieval humanism, 10–12 technology and, 184
nonhumanist posthumanism and, 190–93 Utterback, Camille, 128
posthumanism and, 63–65, 182–93
rationalization to informatization Valis (Dick), 187–88
transition, 186–88 Van Vogt, A. E., 75–76
The Tempest (Shakespeare), xvi, 16 Varela, Francisco, 193
supernatural network in, 19–23 Varley, John, 76
Tender Buttons (Stein), 51–52 Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 150
Terminator film series, 21, 110–11, 113–14, Victory Garden (Moulthrop), 128
182, 192–93 video art, autobiography and, 87–89
The Terminator (film), 111–13 Videodrome (film), 187–88
Tesla, Nicola, 148–50 Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, August, 182
Text Rain (Achituv and Utterback), 128 Vinge, Vernor, 79
textuality Viola, Bill, 87–89
postmodernist metafiction and, 59–60 Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical
“radiant textuality,” 131–32 Revolution (Caughie), 50–51
“That Only A Mother” (Merril), 75–76 vital materialism, 49–52
Thinking in Pictures (Grandin), 86–87 Vonnegut, Kurt, 187–88

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von Trier, Lars, 204–6 Whitlock, Gillian, 96–97

Vorticism, 43–48 Whitman, Walt, 182
Wiener, Norbert, 18
Wallace, David Foster, 64 Williams, Ian, 97
Wallace, Jeff, xvi, 41–52 The Will to Power (Nietzsche), 42–43
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, 128 Wolfe, Cary, 190–92
The War of the Worlds (Wells), xx, 146–47 Woman on the Edge of Time (Piercy), 79–81
Watchmen (Moore), 190–92 “Women and the Future” (Richardson),
Waterland (Swift), xvii, 54–56 47–48
Waugh, Patricia, xvii, 59–60 Women in Love (Lawrence), xx, 44–45,
The Waves (Woolf), 49–52 147–50
Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 47–48 Wood, David, 199–200
Weber, Max, 185–86 Woodhouse, Richard, 35–39
We Have Never Been Modern (Latour), Woolf, Virginia, xvi, 49–52, 89
142–44 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 31
Weil, Kari, xviii, 84–93 Wordsworth, William, xvi, xx, 35–39, 39n.12
Weiskel, Thomas, 144–45 on interiority, 30–32
Wells, H. G., xx, 73–75, 146–47, 148–50 modernist critique of, 43–48
West, Rebecca, xvi, 46–47 nonhuman and sublime in, 144–45
Whale, James, 37 World on a Wire (film), 187–88
What I Don’t Know About Animals Wright, Alexis, 204–6
(Diski), 86 Wright, Ronald, xx, 148–50
What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze and Guattari),
172–74, 178–79 Xenogenesis trilogy (Butler), 79–81
When Species Meet (Haraway), 86
Whitehead, A. N., xvi, 41, 49–52 Yaszek, Lisa, xviii, 71–81
White Noise (DeLillo), 187–88 Yvain (de Troyes), 9–10

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