Human Reimagined

Colleen McQuillen is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has authored numerous publications on Russian literature and culture, including The Modernist Masquerade: Stylizing Life, Literature and Costumes in Russia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013).Julia Vaingurt is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and avant-garde, including Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Northwestern University Press, 2013).

• I. Introductiona. Critical Posthumanismb. Posthumanism in Russiac. Overview of the ArticlesII. Questions of Ethics and Alterity1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse Sofya Khagi, University of MichiganIII. Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments4. Environmentalism and the Man of the Future: Discursive Practices in the 1970s Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago5. Daedalus and the Cyborg: Human-Machine Hybridity in Late-Soviet Design Diana Kurkovsky West, European University at St. Petersburg6. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of LondonIV. Technologies of the Self7. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction Jacob Emery, Indiana University8. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in ‘Real Time’ Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College9. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignV. Politics and Social Action10. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh11. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of PittsburghVI. AfterwordKeti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines

"The Human Reimagined is an unassuming but essential volume. It’s a minor form — the edited collection of academic essays — that undertakes the major work of rearticulating a field of philosophical and political inquiry. The editors and contributors present a vision of a powerful theoretical and philosophical concept of the human based in the material reality of history. It’s that materialist grounding and that range that give posthumanism — and The Human Reimagined — its radical potential." — LA Review of Books