Posthuman Biopolitics

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, USA. His books include Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene (2020) and Neocybernetics and Narrative (2014). With Manuela Rossini, Clarke also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (2017).

“Collectively, these essays provide a marvelous starting point for the continued exploration of the significant work of Joan Slonczewski … . The fiction of Joan Slonczewski … merits continued academic study as well as incorporation into undergraduate and graduate courses. Posthuman Biopolitics is an excellent collection. It should be in every academic library … .” (Bruce Lindsley Rockwood, SFRA Review, Vol. 52 (1), 2022)

• 1. An Interview with Joan Slonczewski.- 2. Posthuman Narration in the Elysium Cycle, Bruce Clarke.- 3. A Door into Ocean as a Model for Feminist Science, Chrisy Tidwell.- 4. “Then Came Pantropy”: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-Animal Relationships in A Door Into Ocean, Chris Pak.- 5. Bodies That Remember: History and Age in The Children Star and Brain Plague, Derek J. Thiess.- 6. Microbial Life and Posthuman Ethics from The Children Star to The Highest Frontier, Sherryl Vint.- 7. The Future at Stake: Modes of Speculation in The Highest Frontier and Microbiology: An Evolving Science, Colin Milburn.- 8. Wisdom is an Odd Number: Community and the Anthropocene in The Highest Frontier, Alexa T. Dodd. ​