What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.
Notes on Contributors 1. Posthumanism in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller, Thomas D. Philbeck and Curtis D. Carbonell PART I: PAVING THE WAY TO POSTHUMANISM: THE PRECURSORS 2. From DelGuat to ScarJo; William Brown 3. Self-Immolation by Technology. Jean Baudrillard and the Posthuman in Film and Television; Jon Baldwin 4. Derrida on Screen; Stefan Herbrechter 5. Bruno Latour: From the Nonmodern to the Posthuman; T. Hugh Crawford 6. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Transhuman in Film and Television; Babette Babich PART II: VARIETIES OF PEOPLE-TO-COME: POSTHUMAN BECOMINGS 7. Terminated: The Life and Death of the Cyborg in Film and Television; Rhys Owain Thomas 8. Of Iron Men and Green Monsters: Superheroes and Posthumanism; Dan Hassler-Forest 9. Growing Your Own: Monsters from the Lab and Molecular Ethics in Post-Humanist Film; Anna Powell 10. Post-Singularity Entities in Film and TV; David Roden 11. Chimeras and Hybrids. The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image; Drew Ayers PART III: RISE OF THE MACHINES: POSTHUMAN INTELLECTS 12: Androids and the Posthuman in Television and Film; Kevin LaGrandeur 13. 'Change for the Machines'? Posthumanism as Digital Sentience; Sherryl Vint 14. Alive in the Net; Jay Clayton and Jeff Menne 15. Autonomous Fighting Machines. Narratives and Ethics; Donal O'Mathuna PART IV: BODY AND SOUL: POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES 16. Contest of Tropes. Screened Posthuman Subjectivities; Curtis D. Carbonell 17. Representations of Cybersex in Film and Television; Hilary Wheaton 18. At Home In and Beyond Our Skin: Posthuman Embodiment; Joel Krueger 19. Constructed Worlds. Posthumanism in Film, Television and Other Cosmopoietic Media; Ivan Callus 20. Tanya Krzywinska & Douglas Brown, Games, Gamers, and Posthumanism PART V: BETTER HUMANS: POSTHUMAN CAPACITIES 21. 'Life's a Bitch, and Then You Don't Die.' Postmortality in Film and Television; Michael Hauskeller 22. A New Lease on Life: A Lacanian Analysis of Cognitive Enhancement Cinema; Hub Zwart 23. Limitless? There's a Pill for That; Kyle McNease 24. Posthumans and Democracy in Popular Culture; James Hughes 25. Negative Feelings as Emotional Enhancement; Tarja Laine PART VI: CREATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY: POSTHUMAN COMMUNITIES 26. Biopleasures. Posthumanism and the Technological Imaginary in Utopian and Dystopian Film; Ralph Pordzik 27. Of Posthuman Born. Gender, Utopia, and the Posthuman, in Films and TV; Francesca Ferrando 28. Sharing Social Context: Is Community with the Posthuman Possible?; David Meeler and Eric Hill 29. Our Posthuman Skin Condition; Teodora Manea 30. Muddy Worlds: Re-Viewing Environmental Narratives; John Bruni PART VII: US AND THEM: POSTHUMAN RELATIONSHIPS 31. Executing Species: Animal Attractions in Thomas Edison and Douglas Gordon; Anat Pick 32. The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Planet of the Apes Films; Phil Henderson 33. Uncanny Intimacies. Human and Machines in Film; Alexander Darius Ornella 34. Posthumanous Subjects; Steen Christiansen 35. Identity: Difficulties, Discontinuities and Pluralities of Personhood; James DiGiovanna PART VIII: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGIES 36. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television; Elaine Graham 37. The Ghost in the Machine. Humanity and the Problem of Self-Aware Information; Brett Lunceford 38. Trust a Few, Fear the Rest: the Anxiety and Fantasy of Human Evolution; Pramod K. Nayar 39. The Posthumanist Paradigm Shift in Film and Television; Thomas D. Philbeck 40. Object Oriented Ontology; Graham Harman Bibliography Filmography Index
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