Introduction: Renaissance Posthumanism

Meaning after Humanism? On Reading in Ruins

“…Perhaps unsurprisingly, historical scholarship comes to the rescue of posthumanist theory here. In books dedicated to Early Modern Literary Studies and Posthumanism (see Herbrechter and Callus, 2012;Campana and Maisano, 2016;Raber, 2018), we find increased awareness of this conundrum and suggestions of 'how to do' posthumanist narrative studies which are valuable far beyond readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The editors of Renaissance Posthumanism, Campana and Maisano (2016: 4), emphasise that Renaissance humanism should neither be equated with Enlightenment thought, nor with a singular conception of 'modernity'.…”

Otres: alianzas naturoculturales, políticas performáticas y ficciones especulativas de la otredad

“…"We have rehearsed the claim that the posthuman condition is upon us and that lingering nostalgia for a modernist or humanist philosophy of self and other, alien and human, normal and queer is merely the echo of a discursive battle that has already taken place". 53 (Halberstam et al, 1995, p. 19) Esto ha sido puesto de manifiesto por autores como (Campana et al, 2016), no correspondiéndose esto con la realidad profunda y compleja del Renacimiento en el que podemos rastrear muchas de las ideas que serán fundamentales para el propio poshumanismo. Una de estas, por ejemplo, la idea de lo humano y lo no humano ensamblado en agenciamientos complejos estaría ya presente en la obra de autores y artistas renacentistas.…”