Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices

by Goda Klumbyte (Editor), Emily Jones (Editor), Rosi Braidotti (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399512664
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	08/31/2025
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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 UniversityAcademic 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 UniversityProfessor Emerita at Utrecht Universityin 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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction to Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices
Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosi Braidotti

Part I. Trans-disciplinary Convergences
1. Shimmering Resonance: Artistic Practice/Marine Sciences/Posthumanism
Fiona Hillary and Prue Francis
2. Reworlding: Posthuman Thinking/Urban Play/Technology/Place-Based Knowledges/Indigenous Cosmologies
Troy Innocent, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs
3. ''Dwelling in the dissolve...'' Towards Transdisciplinary Posthuman Pedagogies for Complex Times: Pedagogies/Posthumanities/Affect/Art
Peter Shukie and Kay Sidebottom
4. Rethinking Postcolonial Conjunctures: Post-Digital/Post-Migration/Post-Humanitarianism
Laura Candidatu, Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
5. Indigenous Nation Rebuilding: Politics/Law/Ecology/Security
Matthew Walsh, Simone Bignall, Daryle Rigney and Steve Hemming
6. Outer Space Law: Posthumanism/Feminism/Anarchism/Decolonisation
Emily Jones, Simone Bignall and Rosi Braidotti
7. Encountering Rivers and Robots as Legal Subjects in Four Acts: Law/Critical Theory/Speculative Fiction
Katja de Vries, Yaffa Epstein, Olga Goriunova and Niels van Dijk
8. New Materialist Informatics: New Materialism/Computer Science/Technology Design
Goda Klumbytė and Claude Draude
9. Art as Metadiscipline: Art/Everything Else
Matthew Fuller

PART II. Trans-corporeal Convergences
10. (Sym)Poetics of Biomineralisation: Molecular Biology/Literature/Posthuman Poetics
Ruth Alison Clemens and Jennifer Aurelie Crouch
11. Accessing Disabled Futures through Research-Creation: Crip/Technoscience/New Materialism
Kelly Fritsch and Suze Berkhout
12. Making Care Perceptible: Nursing/Intuitive Movement/Posthuman Care
Jamie B. Smith, Eva Willis, Kieran Sheehan and Emily Jones
13. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals at the Crossroads of the Humanities and Sciences: Public Health/ Embodiment/ Smell Studies
Rachel Lee
14. Poetic Posthumanities: Art/Poetry/Research
Nina Lykke

Conclusion: (Infra)Structures for the Convergences
Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosi Braidotti

About the Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is a must. It is a cri de coeur for the humanities, showcasing not only their relevance of the humanities in the contemporary university but also their contribution to society. The volume demonstrates the importance of the mathematical and aesthetic imagination in providing new and critical ways of seeing the world and addressing the urgent problems engendered by the historical conditions of our meltdown age. It is precisely in the crossroads between a different sense of the mathematical and a renewed practice of critique & qualitative approaches where the fate of our world will be decided.

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Posthuman Convergences, inspired by Rosi Braidotti's capacious vision for the posthumanities, argues for the necessity of the transversal, anticolonial, environmental, material, and feminist humanities. The wildly divergent essays undertake transdisciplinary methodological experiments, creative practices, and open dialogues, urging us to revitalize modes of inquiry essential for this perilous and precarious moment.

Stacy Alaimo