From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada, where she is also Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute.Terrance H. McDonald is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Posthumanism Research Network, Brock University, Canada. He is also the editor of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism.

• Introduction: Posthumanisms Through Deleuze, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) and Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)1. Posthuman Monism, Vital Neo-Materialisms, Affirmation, Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)2. Deleuzean Traces: The Self of the Polyp, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada)3. The Art of Good Encounters: Spinoza, Deleuze and Macherey on Moving from Passive to Active Joy, Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)4. Symmetry & Asymmetry in Conceptual and Morphological Formations: The Difference Plant Body Growth Can Make to Human Thought, Karen L. F. Houle (University of Guelph, Canada)5. Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl’s and Deleuze’s Cosmologies, Alain Beaulieu (Laurentian University, Canada)6. Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life, Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)7. Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema, Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)8. ‘Subaltern’ Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence: Enthiran and CHAPPiE, William Brown (Roehampton University, UK)9. The Biopolitics of Posthumanism in ‘Tears in Rain’, Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside, USA)10. Dis/abled Reflections on Posthumanism and Biotech, Martin Boucher (Laurentian University, Canada)11. Becoming-Squid, Becoming-Insect, and the Refrain Of/From Becoming-Imperceptible in Contemporary Science Fiction: Or Scarlett the Post-Human Starlet, and Her ‘All too Human’ Male Counterparts, David H. Fleming (University of Stirling, UK)12. Deleuze After Afro-Pessimism, Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)13. Incorporeal Transformations in Truth and Reconciliation: A Posthuman Approach to Transitional Justice, Mickey Vallee (Athabasca University, Canada)

[T]he collection offers an important first step in a discourse ripe for theoretical inquiry, namely Deleuze, Guattari and Posthumanism. These theorists should be applauded for their sustained critique of Humanism and Anthropocentrism.