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Posthumanist Approaches to Political Economy

Dissident Practices

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Posthumanist Approaches to Political Economy

Dissident Practices

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Using critical and poetic practice-as-research techniques, this transdisciplinary book explores the potential of posthumanist thinking for critiquing the mechanisms of twenty-first century political economy.

The five sections of the book explore topics that put posthumanist forms of thinking, applied as academic and artistic practices, in conversation with: the politics of neoliberalism; social discrimination; ecological concerns; digital governmental control; and digital image production.

Table of Contents

Section One: Visualizing: Artificial Intelligence and Platform Imaginaries
1: Reverse Contradictionary
Vuk Cosic (Independent artist, Slovenia), IOCOSE (Independent Art Group, Germany, UK, Italy), Vladan Joler (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
2: AI as the Eternal Return of Human, All Too Human Images of Thought.
Kilian Jörg (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria)
3: The Ontology of the Digital Photograph
Helen Lewandowski (University of London, UK)
4: UnLearning Instagram(ism): Performing the Home Otherwise
Bernadette Krejs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Section Two
Touching: Digital Contact and Economies of Embodiment
5: Embodied Partialities
Ofri Cnaani (Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria)
6: Digital Attunement and Other Intimacies
Tiara Roxanne (Independent Scholar, Germany)
7: Dating App Liquidities and Posthumanist Erotics
Carmen Lael Hines (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)
8: What Is the Opposite of the Body?: Opening Up to the Power of Disembodiment
Assad Assad (Independent scholar, USA)
Section Three
Circulating: Logistics and Materializing Capital
9: Infrastructures of Humanism
Stefano Harney (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany) and Carmen Lael Hines (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)
10: Trawling the Net: Grids, Lines, Bodies, Images In and Out of Place
Benj Gerdes (Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden)
11: Race and Robotics
Louis Chude-Sokei (Boston University, USA)
Section Four
Speculating: Utopic and Dystopic Views on Technology
12: Navigating Techno-Modernity: Dystopia, Realism and Utopia in the Age of Digital Transformation
Into the Black Box Collective Niccolò Cuppini (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), Mattia Frapporti,University of Bologna, Italy), Maurilio Pirone (University of Bologna, Italy)
13: The Multiple Reproductions of the Biobag
Holly Isard(University of West London, UK)
14: Embodying Risk and Active Imagining: Re-Entangling Finance, Economy, and Ecology
Gerald Nestler (Independent Scholar) in conversation with the editors (Carmen Lael Hines and Lisa Moravec)
Section Five
Performing: Human and Non-Human Actors
15:“No Human is Limited”: On the Hyperaestheticization of Olympic Sports
Lisa Moravec (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)
16: Theatre without Workers: Postdramatic Theatre after 2008
Doug Eacho (University of Toronto, Canada)
17: Humane Methods: An Unsolvable Quest for Empathy
Marco Donnarumma and Margherita Pevere (Fronte Vacuo, Independent Art Group, Vienna, Austria)
Section Six
Organizing: Multi-Species Presents and Futures
18: Revengeful Nature: Posthumanist Frontiers in Speculative Architecture
Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
19: Multispecies Assemblies and Organizations
Christoph Chwatal (Independent Scholar, Germany and Austria)
20: Ilemuria
Ayesha Hameed (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
21: Ordnungswut: On whose terms do we bring structure to the world?
Marlene Bart (Independent Scholar, Germany)
Endnote
22: Dissident Translations
Andreas Spiegl (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 02 Apr 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350434295
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 20 bw illus
Series Posthumanism in Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Lisa Moravec

Lisa Moravec is an art historian-performance schol…

Anthology Editor

Carmen Lael Hines

Carmen Lael Hines is a PhD candidate at the Academ…

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