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We are delighted to announce the publication of The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), which our team members María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Esther Muñoz-González, Carmen Laguarta-Bueno have co-edited.

The full volume can be accessed here:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-83701-2

Some of the chapters are available open access.

Table of Contents:

• Recent Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Posthuman: An Introduction
  By  María Ferrández-Sanmiguel, Esther Muñoz-González and Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
  
• “We Are the Borg. Resistance Is Futile”: Reflections, Numbness, and Transhumanism in the Star Trek Universe
  By Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
  
• Posthuman Cognitive Ecologies and AI Moral Agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice
  By Ruxandra Teodorescu
  
• “A Better Future Is in Your Hands”: Transhumanism and Feminism in The Power (TV Series 2023)
  By Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco
  
• Indenture Rights for All: Challenging the Human Status Quo in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous
  By Laura Larrodera-Arcega
  
• “World Without End”: A Reading of Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army as an Eco-Feminist Postapocalyptic Dystopia
  By Susana Onega
  
• Outfacing the “In” Face: The Posthuman Wound and the Defacing of Relationality in Joma West’s Face
  By Ana Chapman
  
• Beyond the Human/Nonhuman Binary: Fluid Borders in A.S. Byatt’s Onto-Tales
  By  María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
  
• Reassembling Skins and Bones: Indigeneity and Posthumanism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
  By  Giulia Magro
  
• Beyond the Anthropocentric Gaze: The Nonhuman Animal as Object/Subject of Vision in Cinema
  By Luca Lunardi and Fabiano D’Este
  
• Humanism as Prosthesis: Science Fiction as Ceremony
  By  Sherryl Vint
  
• Phenomenalogy and the Neo-Apollonian: New Critical Proposal and Aesthetic Trends for the Posthuman
  By Miriam Fernández-Santiago
  
• Posthumanism and Grace: Pre-texts for an Improbable Relation
  By Ivan Callus

We invite you to explore these thought-provoking contributions and hope they inspire meaningful discussions and further research.

Our team member María Ferrández-San Miguel will be delivering the lecture “Consejos para presentar los méritos a una plaza de Asociadx o AYD” for SAAS Young Scholars.

📅 Friday 14th March

⏰ 17h.

🔗 Formulario inscripción gratuita: https://surl.li/yrcida

Find out more info here!

Our team member Miriam Fernández Santiago will be delivering the keynote “The Neo-Apollonian: A Posthumanist Sign of the Digital Times” next Wednesday as part of the cycle of conferences Literature(s) in English (I): Imaginative Encounters.

Literature(s) in English (I): Imaginative Encounters is a seminar organized by the Master in Advanced English Studies at the University of Salamanca and the University of Valladolid. It brings together experts from several international universities working on different periods of English and American literature.

The Literature(s) in English (I) seminar will be mostly held online, via Zoom. Anyone who wishes to attend the seminar is expected to register, using the following link.