The book explores the multi-faceted nature of contemporary reflections on agency, focusing on various discursive practices that shape the posthumanist approach to the relationship between the human and non-human world from a planetary perspective. The chapters delve into critical human-animal studies, examine new non-anthropocentric identity constructs, and offer analyses that reinterpret meanings through semiotic inversions and challenge static cultural patterns. The book concludes with discussions on decolonization practices that aim to liberate agency from oppressive systems, particularly those dominated by imperial phallogocentrism.
Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi is a member of Non-anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivities project at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She wrote her PhD thesis on the cultural meanings of the 21st century vampire narratives.
Prof. Dr. Pawel Piszczatowski ist Professor für Literatur an der Universität Warschau, Polen. Er forscht über die Poesie des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts sowie die interdisziplinären Diskurse des Posthumanismus und Neuen Materialismus.
Prof. Dr. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec ist Professorin für Literatur mit dem Schwerpunkt Mediävistik an der Universität Warschau, Polen.
Katarzyna Moszczynska-Dürst is a Full Professor of the University of Warsaw. She co-directs the GENIA research group and leads the research grant "Embodied life- and memory-narratives".
Karolina Kumor is a Full Professor of the University of Warsaw and Director of the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies. She co-leads the project Frontiers, Boundaries, Thresholds.
Aránzazu Calderón Puerta is an Associate Professor in Spanish Literature at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. She is co-leader of the GENIA research group (Gender, Identity and Discourse in Spain and Latin America).
Prof. Dr. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec ist Professorin für Literatur mit dem Schwerpunkt Mediävistik an der Universität Warschau, Polen.
Prof. Dr. Pawel Piszczatowski ist Professor für Literatur an der Universität Warschau, Polen. Er forscht über die Poesie des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts sowie die interdisziplinären Diskurse des Posthumanismus und Neuen Materialismus.
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