Poetry and Posthumanity

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue of Humanities aims to explore the relationship between poetry and posthumanity. There is an inherent affinity between the power of poetry to unsettle the way we speak and think about the world and the urgency with which posthumanism brings to the fore the inadequacy of the conceptual structures through which we understand the human’s entangled, complex relations with animals, the environment, and technology.

We propose to explore the contribution of poetry to posthuman knowledge production within the emerging discourses on the posthuman, which are generated by the intersecting critiques of humanism and anthropocentrism.

We think that the engagement of poetry, and especially contemporary poetry, with posthuman concepts and experiences such as multispecies livability and ethics, distributed agency, relational subjectivity, and the vulnerable and fragile entanglements with more-than-human life, configures a new and exciting field of investigation.

With transdisciplinary conversations and symbiotic scholarship in mind, we welcome individual and collaborative contributions that investigate the wide-ranging relationship between poetry and posthumanity. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Poetry and posthumanist theories/practices 
• Poetry and multispecies entanglements/ethics/activism  
• Poetry and tentacular thinking, kinship, vulnerability, response-ability  
• Poetry and climate concerns, eco-justice, borderlands, reterritorialization
• Poetry and posthuman pedagogies. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding this Special Issue.

Dr. Antonella Castelvedere
Guest Editor

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• poetry
• contemporary poetry
• posthuman
• posthumanism, ethics
• activism
• pedagogy
• transdisciplinary