Posthuman Convergences

While posthumanism has gained traction over the past few decades, its application has, so far, mostly been within the humanities. This volume brings together a collection of researchers working both within the humanities and beyond, including in marine biology, computer science, the social sciences, legal studies, decolonial studies, pedagogies, and nursing practice, to focus on methods and practices that showcase how to do transdisciplinary posthuman work. At a time where the humanities are in question, with multiple departments and faculties being shut down or drastically cut in size, Posthuman Convergences provides a strong example of exactly why the humanities are so vital in the contemporary moment. It showcases a series of ways to help us think differently about the most pressing problems of our times.

Goda Klumbytė is a postdoctoral researcher at the Participatory IT Design department at the University of Kassel, Germany. Her research engages feminist new materialism, posthumanism, human-computer interaction and algorithmic systems design, with the focus on ethics, explainability and transdisciplinary methods in AI and machine learning. Klumbytė co-edited More Posthuman Glossary with R. Braidotti and E. Jones (Bloomsbury, 2022), and published work in Posthuman Glossary (Braidotti & Hlavajova, Bloomsbury, 2018), New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies (Hepp et al. 2022) Everyday Feminist Research Praxis (Leurs & Olivieri, Camrbidge Scholars, 2015), journals Online Information Review, Digital Creativity and ASAP, as well as presented at informatics conferences such as ACM’s CHI, nordiCHI and FAccT. Emily Jones is a Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow based in Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University. Dr Jones’ interdisciplinary research broadly examines modes of resistance and hope in relation to the theory and practice of public international law, drawing on feminist, queer, posthuman, postcolonial and critical disability studies in that aim. Dr Jones' is the author of Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge, 2023). She also co-authoed The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis, Volume One, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and has co-edited two volumes: International Law & Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024) and the More Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2022). Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).