Journal of Posthumanism

16/12/2024

Whatever this time of year means to you, may it bring you a multitude blessings.

08/12/2024

Reading inspired by our latest issue…

https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/issue/view/226

06/12/2024

From: “The Girl with all the Gifts”, M.R. Carey, 2014, p. 125

03/12/2024

Highly recommending this piece by Susanne Gruss exploring “Fungal intelligence and the posthuman” from our latest issue: https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/view/3341

28/11/2024

Intrigued to read Samanta Schweblin’s “Little Eyes” after reading this piece in our latest issue:

21/11/2024

What does multiplicity mean to you?

18/11/2024

A reminder about that our latest issue is out and available online: https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/issue/view/226

11/11/2024

“Far from signaling Klara’s eeriness or threatening potential, her singular, distinctive mind and way of telling ultimately remind us of the need to make space in our imaginations for the lives and perspectives of others, humans and not.”
(Diane Leblond, 2024, p. 131)
👏

Posthuman Encounters and Patterns of Care in Klara and the Sun (2021) or, What Ishiguro’s AI Tells Us About the Uncanny Valley Authors Diane Leblond Université de Lorraine (Metz) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2509-8609 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3348 Keywords: Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and...

05/11/2024

Loving this book… “They All Saw A Cat” by Brendan Wenzel (2016)

31/10/2024

Love discovering previously-unknown murals in out-of-the-way places. ✨

29/10/2024

Some fantastic turns of phrase by Jana-Katharina Burnikel in this piece in our latest issue, including “kaleidoscopically ambiguous” p. 116. Unpack this reading of Ridley Scott’s ‘Raised by Wolves’ here: https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/view/3338/2737

“This paper focuses on the series’ scenes of births and argues that Mother’s enactment of giving birth to human offspring blends categoric features of the human, the animal, and the machine into an uncanny fantasy of monstrous otherness…” (p. 116)

23/10/2024

An intriguing argument is advanced by Stephan Laqué in this article from our latest issue:

“What, then, does the tragedy of Hamlet have to say about artificial intelligence by showing us these three instances where the AI which the play has created - Horatio - is being tested? One could argue that the character of Horatio shows, from a distance of more than 420 years, that AI may be quite harmless, but also quite useless.” (p. 113)

AI at Elsinore: What Horatio can teach us about Artificial Intelligence Authors Stephan Laque Freie Universität Berlin DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3355 Keywords: AI, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Horatio, Automaton Abstract This paper argues that the early modern period was already debating ques...

21/10/2024

Really interesting read in our latest issue from Cordula Lemke. What if AI were friendly?

“I would like to argue that it is the structure of doubling rather than the objects we encounter that evokes feelings of the uncanny - if we cannot be sure whether the person we look at is the person we think we know, if our expectations of the other person are thwarted, we have an uncanny experience - and I doubt that it makes a difference whether they are a person or a bot.” (p. 100)

Read it here:

Of Information Superhighways, Sexbots, Friends: The Delights of the Uncanny Authors Cordula Lemke Freie Universität Berlin DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3357 Keywords: AI, Uncanny, Media Studies, Winterson, Jonze, Ishiguro Abstract This article explores the uncanny potential of artificial...

14/10/2024

Continuing to showcase contributions to our latest issue. Kevin LaGrandeur outlines ‘The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technologies for Brain Enhancement’. A fascinating (and somewhat alarming) read:

The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology for Brain Enhancement Authors Kevin LaGrandeur New York Institute of Technology DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3340 Keywords: Emerging technologies, BCI, tDCS, Prosthetic memory, Science fiction Abstract Today’s emerging technologies provide po...

10/10/2024

Enjoying wrestling with this these past few days. How are “you” ‘let[ting] thought and being unfurl on the plane of immanence where anything can happen’? (St Pierre, 2016, p. 120)

03/10/2024

Enjoying this unexpected public art in my neighbourhood. What has surprised you recently? What thoughts are activated?

30/09/2024

Recommending this engaging and fascinating read from our latest issue! Dunham Mohr’s piece starts with the arresting line: “Both science and art tell stories about creating perfected humans”, it explores four novels and Crispr/Cas9 gene editing.

Read it here:

Homo Crispr and the Uncanny Art of Self-Reproduction Authors Dunja M. Mohr University of Erfurt DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3350 Keywords: The Sandman, Frankenstein, Tomorrow's Eve, The Passion of New Eve, Othering, Crispr-CAS Abstract Selected classic 19th-and 20th-century fictional tex...

29/09/2024

Spell out a name or word in land imagery…