Stefan Herbrechter is a Research Fellow at Coventry University and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis and general editor of the Brill series Critical Posthumanisms. For more information please see http://stefanherbrechter.com.Elisabeth Friis is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University. She is the editor of the journal Kritik and editor of several of Clarice Lispector’s works. Her research interests include: Homer and (non-)anthropomorphism, oral theory, feminism & posthumanism, ecopoetics and contemporary poetry.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 - Stefan Herbrechter, Narrating(-)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction2 - Fiction: David Wagner, Life/LivesNarrating Life in Literature3 - Elisabeth Friis, In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing?4 - Holly Henry, Charting Solar Systems, Exoplanets and Earth 2.05- Tom Idema, Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari6 - Moritz Ingwersen, Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life7 - Cristina Iuli, Dissonance, Data, and DNA: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo8 - Tanja Nusser, “Chromosomal cuties”, “fembots”, “chatty cyber trio” or “cantankerous clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Film Teknolust9 - Manuela Rossini, Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – a Waterman Narrates10 - Laura Shackelford, In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet11 - Jeff Wallace, Life Beyond “Critique”: Murakami after Latour12 - Dominik Zechner, Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion13 - Fiction: Steve Tomasula, The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman)Narrating Life in Science14 - Amelie Björck, Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives15 - Angela Rawlings, Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite16 - Dorion Sagan, Death Writing: A Bestiary of the Biological Real17 - Marianne Sommer, Experimenting with Bones18 - Coda: Amalie Smith, The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the SeabedNotes on ContributorsIndex

Stefan Herbrechter is a Research Fellow at Coventry University and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis and general editor of the Brill series Critical Posthumanisms. For more information please see http://stefanherbrechter.com.Elisabeth Friis is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University. She is the editor of the journal Kritik and editor of several of Clarice Lispector’s works. Her research interests include: Homer and (non-)anthropomorphism, oral theory, feminism & posthumanism, ecopoetics and contemporary poetry.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 - Stefan Herbrechter, Narrating(-)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction2 - Fiction: David Wagner, Life/LivesNarrating Life in Literature3 - Elisabeth Friis, In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing?4 - Holly Henry, Charting Solar Systems, Exoplanets and Earth 2.05- Tom Idema, Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari6 - Moritz Ingwersen, Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life7 - Cristina Iuli, Dissonance, Data, and DNA: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo8 - Tanja Nusser, “Chromosomal cuties”, “fembots”, “chatty cyber trio” or “cantankerous clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Film Teknolust9 - Manuela Rossini, Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – a Waterman Narrates10 - Laura Shackelford, In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet11 - Jeff Wallace, Life Beyond “Critique”: Murakami after Latour12 - Dominik Zechner, Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion13 - Fiction: Steve Tomasula, The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman)Narrating Life in Science14 - Amelie Björck, Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives15 - Angela Rawlings, Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite16 - Dorion Sagan, Death Writing: A Bestiary of the Biological Real17 - Marianne Sommer, Experimenting with Bones18 - Coda: Amalie Smith, The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the SeabedNotes on ContributorsIndex

Stefan Herbrechter is a Research Fellow at Coventry University and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University. He is the author of Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis and general editor of the Brill series Critical Posthumanisms. For more information please see http://stefanherbrechter.com.Elisabeth Friis is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, Lund University. She is the editor of the journal Kritik and editor of several of Clarice Lispector’s works. Her research interests include: Homer and (non-)anthropomorphism, oral theory, feminism & posthumanism, ecopoetics and contemporary poetry.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 - Stefan Herbrechter, Narrating(-)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction2 - Fiction: David Wagner, Life/LivesNarrating Life in Literature3 - Elisabeth Friis, In my core I have the strange impression that I don’t belong to the human species: Clarice Lispector’s Água viva as Life Writing?4 - Holly Henry, Charting Solar Systems, Exoplanets and Earth 2.05- Tom Idema, Species Encounters: O. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari6 - Moritz Ingwersen, Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life7 - Cristina Iuli, Dissonance, Data, and DNA: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers’ Orfeo8 - Tanja Nusser, “Chromosomal cuties”, “fembots”, “chatty cyber trio” or “cantankerous clones”? Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Film Teknolust9 - Manuela Rossini, Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Christoph Ransmayr – a Waterman Narrates10 - Laura Shackelford, In Toxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other “Smallwork” in The Flame Alphabet11 - Jeff Wallace, Life Beyond “Critique”: Murakami after Latour12 - Dominik Zechner, Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion13 - Fiction: Steve Tomasula, The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman)Narrating Life in Science14 - Amelie Björck, Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives15 - Angela Rawlings, Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite16 - Dorion Sagan, Death Writing: A Bestiary of the Biological Real17 - Marianne Sommer, Experimenting with Bones18 - Coda: Amalie Smith, The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the SeabedNotes on ContributorsIndex