14Posthumanism

Abstract

The year’s work in posthumanism includes both surveys of the field and publications that contribute significantly to posthumanist thought by examining processes and practices that call the singularity of the human into question. If we were to think of the principal strands of posthumanist thought that dominated publications in 2023, then human embodiment, environmentalism, and care-beyond-the-human, appearing in multiple collections and essays, would be clear choices. This review is divided into four key sections that consider how such strands play out in a range of disciplinary contexts in work published across 2023: 1. Surveys and Elaborations, which considers comprehensive accounts of the posthumanist school of thought and works that contribute to specific posthumanist themes; 2. Posthumanism in Literature and Culture, which considers the continuing interest in the literary and cultural enunciations of the posthuman, particularly fiction and art; 3. Posthumanism and the Anthropocene, which considers posthumanism’s intersections with environmental thought; and 4. Posthumanism and Care, which examines work on theorizations of care in which non-human and other-than-human care figure prominently.