Thematically, posthuman/ist literature is concerned with a variety of topics that are associated with figurations of the posthuman: climate change, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, the Anthropocene, enhancement, postanthropocentrism, the question of the animal, object ontology, cyborgisation and dis/embodiment, non/human futures, to name just the most obvious. Through a close reading of some contemporary examples it shows that literature can follow a number of paths to engage with posthumanism (as a discourse) and the posthuman (as a figure) and thus respond to the ongoing (social, technological, ecological…) process of posthumanisation. It differentiates between a literature of the posthuman and posthumanist literature. This essay discusses the connection between posthumanism, the posthuman, and posthumanisation, on the one hand, and literature, the literary and post-literary (or the survival of literature), on the other hand. The question mark in the title gestures towards the conundrum that something like posthumanist literature might well be a contradiction in terms.
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Elaine Steane (née Fullard) is the daughter of a cartographer and a geographer so grew up being able to identify glacial moraines and U-shaped valleys. Carefully planned and thought out "caracter development" can sometimes be a drag. Asimov is certainly a somewhat overrated writer, but he is much more readable than some highly praised but dry and academic writers like Ursula le Guin. I too became annoyed and had to look it up in the first edition! As for lack of "character development", that complaint is true enough, but in my opinion it is rather an asset, not a drawback in stories of this kind. Perhaps the reader should have said "end of quotation" or something like that. These quotations are meant only as glimpses, but when read aloud they certainly give the impression of having been cut by accident. Someone complained about partial loss of sentences, but citations from the "Galactic Encyclopedia" are actually truncated in the original text also and ends abruptly in the middle of sentences with a series of dots. At the end of the eleventh century, when the Normans took possession of Sicily, the Muslims considered the end of their rule over the island as a catastrophic loss. 1 The Muslims knew well the many qualities of Sicily: the island was a fertile land producing huge quantities of grain and was located in a pivotal geographical position in the Mediterranean, which provided strong commercial and strategic advantages. Sicily had belonged to the dār al-Islām (the Islamic world) for over 200 years, during which the island developed strong political, commercial, and intellectual ties with its Muslim neighbors, especially North Africa. “ May Allah restore it to Islam.” This phrase is often encountered in medieval Arabic writings when referencing the island of Sicily after it had passed from Muslim into (Christian) Norman hands. |