Welcome to the website of the research projects «The Posthuman Wound: Subject and Agency in the North American Literature of the 21st Century» (PID2022-137627NB-I00. 2023-2026), «Contemporary North American Fiction and the 4th Industrial Revolution: From Posthumanity to Privation and Social Change» (PID2019-106855GB-I00. 2020-2023) and «Trauma, Culture and Posthumanity: The Definition of Being in Contemporary American fiction» (FFI2015-63506-P. 2016-2020).
Book recs
Welcome to Posthuman Fridays, our weekly series dedicated to spotlighting novels that inspire, challenge, and inform our research on posthumanism, science fiction, ecology, ethics, and the evolving boundaries of the human. 📚✨
Each Friday, we highlight a book that resonates with the themes we explore as a research group—whether through speculative narratives, philosophical provocations, biotechnological futures, or innovative literary forms. From cult sci-fi classics to contemporary experimental fiction, these recommendations offer gateways into the questions shaping 21st-century humanities.
Browse the collection, discover new reads, and join us as we rethink what stories about the “more-than-human” can teach us. 🌱🤖🧬
🌿📚 #PosthumanFridaysThis week: Sobre Dios. Pensar con Simone Weil by Byung-Chul Han.A luminous meditation on attention, silence & decreation in dialogue with Simone Weil.Against hyperproductivity and digital saturation, Han invites us to rediscover meaning through stillness and vulnerability.
Posthuman Fridays 📚Jenny Offill’s Weather captures climate anxiety and planetary dread through fragmentary, intimate storytelling: what it feels like to live inside the crisis.#PosthumanFridays #Weather #JennyOffill #ClimateFiction
This week’s #PosthumanFridays pick is The Overstory by Richard Powers — a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that places trees at the heart of the narrative 🌳
🍬 Posthuman Fridays (a little late, still on point)The Candy House by Jennifer Egan imagines a world where memories are uploaded, shared, and sold. When identity becomes data, who really owns the self?#PosthumanFridays #TheCandyHouse #SpeculativeFiction #DigitalIdentity
🌙✨ #PosthumanFridaysThis week’s rec: The Sleepless by Victor Manibo — a compelling near-future thriller where a sleepless elite reshapes society, labor, and what it means to be human. 🧬🔍A smart blend of biotech, mystery & posthuman themes.Highly recommended!
📚✨ #PosthumanFridays — Book RecThis week we spotlight Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon — a haunting blend of eco-horror, Gothic mutation, and posthuman transformation. 🌿🔥
📚✨ #PosthumanFridaysToday’s rec: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer — a haunting blend of weird fiction, ecological mystery, and posthuman transformation. 🌿👁️🗨️A hypnotic journey into Area X that challenges what it means to be human as environments (and bodies) begin to shift. 🧬🌱
✨ #PosthumanFridays is back!This week’s pick: Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson — the cyberpunk classic that redefined how we imagine tech, identity & the future. 💻🧠⚡A visionary dive into AI, body mods & corporate power — essential reading for any posthumanist! 🤖
🚀📚 #PosthumanFridays begins!Every week we’ll recommend a novel that shapes our research on #posthumanism, tech, & contemporary lit. 🌍✨First up: The Body Scout (2021) by Lincoln Michel ⚾🧬 A sharp sci-fi noir where body mods meet biocapitalism — and justice gets a cybernetic twist. 💀
