Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art

Peggy Karpouzou is Assistant Professor in Theory of Literature at the Faculty ofPhilology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Nikoleta Zampaki completed her PhD studies in Modern Greek Literature atthe Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,Greece.

• Contents – Pramod K. Nayar Looking through the Symbiotic Lens – Francesca Ferrando “We Are The Earth”: Posthumanist Realizations in the Era of the Anthropocene – Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki Introduction: Towards a Symbiosis of Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities or Paving Narratives for the SymbiocenePART I Framing the Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies – Roberto Marchesini Somatizing Alterity: Technology and Hybridization in the Post- Human Era – Teresa Heffernan Rethinking “Queer Kin Groups”: Cyborgs, Animals, and Machines – Mieke Bal How to Say It? Symbiosis as Inter- Ship – Peggy Karpouzou Symbiotic Citizenship in Posthuman Urban Ecosystems: Smart Biocitiesin Speculative FictionPART II Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Literature and Art – Bruce Clarke Cracking Open: Ecological Communication in Richard Powers’ The Overstory – Irene Sanz Alonso Posthuman Subjects in Rosa Montero’s Los tiempos del odio – Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Cyber body as Medium of Art. The Case of Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas – Dimitris Angelatos Folded Tactility: Tracing Metabolic Artistic Practices in Contemporary Sculpture – David Fancy Geomancy vs Technomancy: Resonance, Divination and Gilbert Simondon’s ThoughtPART III Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Continental Philosophy – Nicole AndersonAnimal- Human Differences: The Deconstructive Force of Posthumanism – Fred Evans Deleuzian Cosmopolitanism: From the Capitalist Axiomatic to the “Chaosmocene” – Glen A. Mazis A Posthumanist Truly Back to the Things Themselves: Merleau- Ponty’sEmbodied Phenomenology and Literary Language – Cassandra Falke Eco- Phenomenology in the Dark – Avital Ronell Nietzsche Apologizes for the Weather: A Storm Chaser’s Report – Notes on Contributors – Index