Table of Contents
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman, and Posthuman: Striving for More Ethical Cohabitation
Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisi Koistinen, Karoliina Lummaa, and Essi Varis
Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading
1 On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s)
Carole Guesse
2 Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers
Karoliina Lummaa
3 Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects
Kaisa Kortekallio
Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters
4 Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters
Essi Varis
5 Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator
Jonne Arjoranta
6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children’s Literature as Nonhuman Others
Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto
Part 3. Becoming with Animals
7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert’s Angus
Mikko Keskinen
8 Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts
Brad Bolman
9 Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability
Hana Porkertová
Part 4. Technological (Co-)Agencies
10 Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics
Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet
11 Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft
Marleena Huuhka
12 Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency
Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær
Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter?
13 Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism
Juha Raipola