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Research group on US literature at @fyl_unizar (Universidad de Zaragoza). Posthumanism, science fiction, trauma studies.

🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays — Research Spotlight This we 🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays — Research Spotlight

This week’s featured video breaks down the open-access chapter “Outfacing the ‘In’ Face: The Posthuman Wound and the Defacing of Relationality in Joma West’s Face” by Ana Chapman, from The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights (Palgrave, 2025). 

In this critical reading of Joma West’s dystopian novel Face, Ana shows how a world obsessed with digital faces, bioengineering, and surveillance fragments embodiment and affective relationality — turning bodies into data and challenging what it means to connect, feel, and be human in a techno-mediated society. 🌐🔍🤖

This chapter is open access, so you can read and share it freely! 📖🔓 Link in bio.

#OpenAccess #PosthumanFridays #Posthumanism #CriticalPosthumanism #JomaWest #FaceNovel #Relationality #Embodiment #DigitalCulture #PosthumanCondition #TYPH #HumanitiesResearch #SpeculativeFiction
✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation This wee ✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation
This week we’re spotlighting The Sleepless by Victor Manibo, a gripping sci-fi thriller set in a near-future world where a mysterious condition leaves a portion of the population unable to sleep—without suffering any negative effects. 🌙🧬

What begins as a global miracle quickly becomes a social divide, reshaping labor, class, identity, and the very meaning of humanity. Through murder, mystery, and bio-tech intrigue, The Sleepless explores what happens when bodies and abilities become commodities—and how power shifts when humans become “more” than human. 🔍⚙️

Have you read it? Tell us your thoughts below! 👇✨

#TheSleepless #VictorManibo #SciFiThriller #PosthumanFridays #Bookstagram #SpeculativeFiction #BioTechFiction #NearFutureSciFi #Posthumanism #ReadingRecommendations
📢 #PosthumanFridays We’re excited to share a new 📢 #PosthumanFridays

We’re excited to share a new open-access article by our co-PI Mónica Calvo-Pascual:

“Ethico-onto-epistem-ology and Traumatic Memories in The Deep and Sorrowland” — published in European Journal of American Culture (2024). 

In this article, Mónica combines posthumanism, new materialism, and affect theory to analyze how memory, trauma, identity, and body — human and non-human — intertwine in speculative fiction. Through the imaginative landscapes of The Deep and Sorrowland, she explores trans-species belonging and the haunting legacies of history. 🌊🧠✨

What’s more: the article is open access, meaning you can read it for free right away. 📖✅

#OpenAccess #Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #SpeculativeFiction #TheDeep #Sorrowland #RiversSolomon #HumanitiesResearch #TYPH #EuropeanJournalOfAmericanCulture #ResearchToPublic #AltFutures #CriticalTheory
🌟 New Publication Alert! 🌟 We’re proud to announc 🌟 New Publication Alert! 🌟

We’re proud to announce that our co-PI Mónica Calvo‑Pascual has published a new essay: “Herland’s Speculative Fiction Offspring: New Materialist Posthuman Ethics in Larissa Lai’s @haamyue Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu” in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2025).

In this piece, Mónica uses new-materialist and posthumanist theory — from thinkers like Karen Barad, Stacy Alaimo, and Rosi Braidotti — to read Lai’s dystopian speculative fiction through ethical, embodied, and interspecies lenses. 

🌿✨ The essay argues that Lai’s imagined communities defy anthropocentric norms, proposing alternative modes of relationality, agency, and ecological connection. 🌀👥🌱

A must-read for anyone interested in posthuman ethics, speculative fiction, and feminist materialism! 🔍📚

#NewPublication #Posthumanism #MaterialFeminism #SpeculativeFiction #LarissaLai #ContemporaryWomensWriting #TYPH #UniversityOfZaragoza #CriticalTheory #HumanitiesResearch #NewMaterialism #PosthumanStudies
✨📚 New Publication Alert! We’re thrilled to celeb ✨📚 New Publication Alert!

We’re thrilled to celebrate the latest article by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno (UNIZAR): “Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers’s Playground (2024)”, published in Orbis Litterarum (2025). 

This thought-provoking work explores how Powers’s newest novel invites readers to rethink human exceptionalism through the lenses of critical posthumanism, ontological vulnerability, and relational ethics. Drawing on themes of oceanic wonder, interdependence, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the risks of AI, the article shows how Playground continues — and expands — Powers’s ecological and philosophical project. 

#PosthumanStudies #RichardPowers #Ecocriticism #NewPublication #UNIZAR #CriticalPosthumanism #OceanFutures #LiteraryStudies #PlanetaryFutures
📚✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation This w 📚✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation

This week’s pick is Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon — a bold, genre-blending novel where horror, identity, and posthuman change collide. 🌿🔥

After escaping a cult as a heavily pregnant teenager, protagonist Vern retreats to the woods with her twins — only to discover that her body, and the world around her, will never be the same. As she transforms, contends with hauntings, and uncovers dark conspiracies, the novel forces us to reimagine what survival, motherhood, and humanity can mean. 🧬🌲💫

If you’re drawn to unsettling, powerful fiction that merges Gothic horror, speculative sci-fi and fierce social critique — Sorrowland is not just a read, but an experience.

#Sorrowland #RiversSolomon #Posthumanism #EcoHorror #GothicFiction #SpeculativeFiction #WeirdLit #PosthumanFridays #ReadingRecommendation #SciFiBooks
Our researcher Rubén Peinado Abarrio will be prese Our researcher Rubén Peinado Abarrio will be presenting his paper “Recovering Heritage in Trauma Literature: The Case of Sarajevo” at II Congreso Internacional Visiones Interdisciplinares sobre el Patrimonio (CONIVIP), held at @universidadsanjorge.

His talk will take place today from 17:00 to 17:10 in the panel Linguistic and Literary Heritage, part of a rich three-day programme exploring cultural, artistic, and literary heritage from multiple perspectives.

🔗 More info here: https://patrimoniocultural.usj.es/index.php/ii-conivip-2025/
🎓✨ Today several of our predoctoral researchers de 🎓✨ Today several of our predoctoral researchers delivered the informative session “PhD 101: What Is a PhD?” — and we had a full house!

A huge thank you to all the degree and master students who attended, asked questions, and brought such great energy to the room. It’s inspiring to see so many students eager to explore the path of academic research.

💜 Thank you for supporting our outreach initiatives.
🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays — New Video Summary! This we 🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays — New Video Summary!

This week we spotlight the research article “Mourning the Human?: Posthuman Death and Ontological Vulnerability in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy” by our team member María Ferrández-Sanmiguel. 🌿📚

In this video, we explore how VanderMeer’s haunting trilogy reframes death, vulnerability, and the boundaries of the human through a posthuman lens. From ecological enmeshment to unsettling transformations, María’s work offers a powerful reading of how the series challenges our understanding of identity, mortality, and coexistence in an ever-shifting world. 🌱👁️‍🗨️

▶️ Watch the full video to dive into posthuman death, ontological uncertainty, and the strange beauty of the Southern Reach.

#PosthumanFridays #Posthumanism #WeirdFiction #JeffVanderMeer #SouthernReach #Annihilation #PosthumanStudies #Ecocriticism #ResearchVideo #AcademicResearch #WeirdLit #NewMaterialism #AffectTheory #SpeculativeFiction #ContemporaryFiction
🌟 New Publication Alert! 🌟 We’re thrilled to shar 🌟 New Publication Alert! 🌟

We’re thrilled to share the latest article by our team member Esther Muñoz González (@esther48123):

📝 “When the Puppet Becomes Human: The Gothic Posthumanism of In the Lives of Puppets (2023)”
📚 Complutense Journal of English Studies, 33.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.98190

In this article, Esther offers a fascinating reading of T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets, a dystopian reimagining of Pinocchio where the boundaries between human and machine blur in unsettling—and deeply moving—ways. 

👀 A must-read for fans of posthumanism, the Gothic, and contemporary speculative fiction!

#NewPublication #Posthumanism #GothicFiction #InTheLivesOfPuppets #TJKlune #AffectTheory #CriticalPosthumanism #SpeculativeFiction #HumanitiesResearch #ResearchSpotlight
📚✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation Today 📚✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book Recommendation

Today we’re diving into one of the most haunting, genre-defying novels of 21st-century weird fiction: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. 🌿👁️‍🗨️

Set in the enigmatic Area X, this novel blends ecological mystery, posthuman transformation, and psychological horror into a hypnotic reading experience. VanderMeer invites us to question what it means to be human when the world around—and within—us begins to transform. 🧬🌱

#JeffVanderMeer #Annihilation #AreaX #WeirdFiction #EcoFiction #SpeculativeFiction #NewWeird #Posthumanism #PosthumanStudies #ClimateFiction #Bookstagram #SciFiBooks #HorrorBooks #DystopianFiction #ReadingRecommendations
📚✨ This week at the #AEDEAN48 Conference (@aedeani 📚✨ This week at the #AEDEAN48 Conference (@aedeaninfo), our team member María Ferrández San Miguel (@maria_fsm_unizar) took part with two exciting contributions!

🎙️ She delivered the paper “The Science behind Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Series: On the Performativity and Creativity of Matter,” exploring how VanderMeer’s fiction intertwines science, ecology, and posthuman theory.

📖 She also presented the recently published volume The Posthuman Condition in 21st Century Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Insights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), co-edited with Esther Muñoz González and Carmen Laguarta-Bueno.

Such a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and research with colleagues from across the field! 💬🌍

#PosthumanStudies #AEDEAN2025
🎓✨ ¿Te planteas hacer un doctorado pero no sabes p 🎓✨ ¿Te planteas hacer un doctorado pero no sabes por dónde empezar?

Te invitamos a la sesión “Doctorado 101: ¿Qué es un Doctorado?”, donde varias doctorandas del Dpto. de Filología Inglesa compartirán su experiencia y resolverán tus dudas sobre qué implica esta etapa académica.

📍 Jueves 27 de noviembre, 14:15–15:00 h
 📚 Aula B2.1, Edificio B – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Unizar)

Descubre qué es un doctorado, qué dedicación requiere y cómo acceder a él.

 💬 Actividad dirigida a estudiantes de Grado y Máster en Estudios Ingleses interesados en continuar su formación investigadora.

👉 Inscríbete en el enlace de la bio.
🎙️✨ Upcoming Seminar Alert! Join us for “Posthuma 🎙️✨ Upcoming Seminar Alert!

Join us for “Posthumanismo y Estética Digital del S. XXI”, a talk by our team member Miriam Fernández Santiago @miriamfernandezsantiago 🌐💫

🗓 Date: December 17, 2025
🕦 Time: 11:30 A.M.
📍 Location: Aula Ana Pardo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Granada)

In this seminar, Miriam will explore how the so-called Third Media Age or Fourth Industrial Revolution shapes a new aesthetic paradigm for the 21st century — what she terms the “Neoapolíneo.” ✨🎭

Discover how this concept connects digital aesthetics, ergodic art, and agential materialism grounded in quantum physics. ⚛️📚

Don’t miss this thought-provoking session!

#Posthumanism #Neoapolíneo #DigitalAesthetics #Seminar #Research #Posthumanities
🎬✨ New #PosthumanFridays video! This week, we div 🎬✨ New #PosthumanFridays video!

This week, we dive into Francisco Collado-Rodríguez’s article “Echoes from Fight Club: Categorical Thinking, Narrative Strategies, and Political Radicalism in Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day.” 🧠📚

Discover how Palahniuk’s fiction critiques toxic masculinity, radical ideologies, and the dangers of binary thinking in contemporary America 💥

Watch the full video to explore how literature helps us unpack the complexities of identity and power in the 21st century.

#Posthumanism #FightClub #ChuckPalahniuk #CriticalTheory #AmericanLiterature
💥✨ #PosthumanFridays is back with another book rec 💥✨ #PosthumanFridays is back with another book recommendation!

This week, we’re diving into Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson — the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel that changed the way we imagine technology, identity, and the future. 🧠💻⚡

Gibson’s vision of cyberspace anticipated the digital age, exploring themes of artificial intelligence, body modification, and corporate power long before they became part of our daily lives. It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the roots of posthuman and techno-cultural thought. 🌐🤖

📖 Whether you’re new to cyberpunk or revisiting this classic, Neuromancer is a reminder that the future is already here — just unevenly distributed.

#PosthumanFridays #BookRecommendation #Cyberpunk #WilliamGibson #Posthumanism #ScienceFiction #AI #DigitalFutures #ThePosthumanWound
🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays continues — but with a twist! 🎥✨ #PosthumanFridays continues — but with a twist!

From now on, we’ll also be sharing short video summaries of our team’s research articles 🧠📚. Each episode breaks down key ideas from our work on posthumanism, literature, and culture — in an accessible, engaging way. 🌍🤖

This week’s first video features María Abizanda-Cardona presenting her article “Beyond SF: Reading the Posthuman in Crime Fiction” (📘 European Journal of American Culture, 2024).

🔍 What happens when detective fiction meets posthumanism? How does the genre explore biocapitalism, embodiment, and justice in a technologized world?

Stay tuned and dive into the posthuman! 💫

#PosthumanFridays #ResearchInFocus #Posthumanism #CrimeFiction #SciFi #AcademicResearch
#PosthumanFridays 🤖📚 | Book Recommendation #1 We’ #PosthumanFridays 🤖📚 | Book Recommendation #1

We’re launching a new series — #PosthumanFridays — where every week we’ll recommend a novel that inspires our research on posthumanism, biopolitics, and contemporary literature. 🌍✨

These posts will highlight some of the key works we study and teach — stories that question what it means to be human in times of technological transformation, ecological crisis, and blurred boundaries between the organic and the artificial.

We’re starting strong with a gripping sci-fi noir: The Body Scout (2021) by @lincolngram ⚾🧬💀

#TheBodyScout #LincolnMichel #Posthumanism #Biocapitalism #CyberpunkNoir #SpeculativeFiction #PosthumanFridays #ScienceFiction #BookRecommendation #CriticalPosthumanism
🎸 Rock It Café Granada | October 8, 2025 🎶 We’re 🎸 Rock It Café Granada | October 8, 2025 🎶

We’re thrilled to announce that our team member ✨ @miriamfernandezsantiago ✨ will take part in the first edition of “Rock It Café” in Granada, organized by @medialabugr as part of the European Erasmus+ project Rock Your Research! 🇪🇺💡

Miriam will deliver the micro-talk 🎤 “Neo Apollonian Harmonies”, where she will explore posthuman aesthetics, relationality, and the intersections between art and research. 🌌📚

The event will take place at the Salón de Grados de la ETSA 🏛️ and will bring together music 🎵, micro-talks 💬, and creative dialogue 🤝 — celebrating how science and art can inspire each other.

Join us for an evening of rhythm, ideas, and innovation! 🌟
🔬✨ European Researchers’ Night | September 26, 202 🔬✨ European Researchers’ Night | September 26, 2025

As part of European Researchers’ Night 2025, our team brought science, curiosity, and posthumanist research to the streets, labs, and plazas of Granada and Zaragoza! 🌍🧬📚

Highlights from our activities:

Granada: Miriam Fernández-Santiago led “Metáfora Transhumanista: Estética de la Representación de la Inteligencia Artificial” for schools at Paseo del Salón 🏫🤖🎨.

Zaragoza:

María Ferrández-Sanmiguel presented her children’s story “El gran hilo que todo lo une – Una historia posthumana” at Patio Inglés 📖✨.

María Abizanda-Cardona introduced kids to the work of women scientists in the Purple Corner 👩‍🔬💜.

She also participated in Speed Dating at CaixaForum, sharing our research with the adult public 🗣️🔬.

Later, she delivered a short talk on her thesis: “Sherlocks del siglo XXI: ¿Puede la novela de misterio ayudarnos a resolver la crisis climática?” at Late Show: Investigación a escena 🕵️‍♀️🌱.

Granada: Miriam Fernández-Santiago delivered “¿Te gusta lo Neoapolíneo? ¡Bienvenido al Posthumanismo!” at the same Late Show event 🎭✨.

It was a day full of fun, learning, and inspiring conversations with the public and peers! 🌟🤩

#NIGHTSpain #ERN2025 #EuropeanResearchersNight #nocheeuropeainvestigacion
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