This new edited collection embodies its posthumanist ambitions through sheer disciplinary diversity. The collected essays, edited by S.E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė, constitute a transdisciplinary assemblage of divergent artistic, scientific, and philosophical reflections on what it means to be human in a morethan-human world. The essays are organized into three sections, the first dealing predominantly with climate change and eco-activism, the second with interspecies translation and boundary crossing, and the third with ontologies of life and the human.
In drawing together different, and sometimes competing, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, the editorial approach is very much in line with calls from posthumanist scholars such as Rosi Braidotti and Francesca Ferrando to suspend theoretical dogmatism in favor of a more nomadic methodology. However, as with any transdisciplinary enterprise, the breadth of discipline-specific terminology can be a little overwhelming. A small sample of terms covered includes: the Anthropocene, critical posthumanism, new materialism, vital...