Exploring Posthumanism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Debates

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Exploring Posthumanism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Debates

Dr.K.Shantichitra, K.Priyadharshini, K.B.Suryakanth

October 2025 | ISBN: 978-93-6163-258-7

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
From I–IT to I–THOU: Rethinking Public Expenditure on Higher Education through Martin Buber’s Dialogical Ethics
Albin P. Mathew & Dr. Gopi D
Pages: 1–12
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch001
Chapter 2
Blackness, Bodies and the Flow of Beyond: Reading Afrofuturist Novels through the Posthumanist Lens
Atisshreya Chhotaray
Pages: 13–19
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch002
Chapter 3
Enchanting the Post Human: Magic, Identity and Otherness in A Sorceress Comes to Call
M. Kishware Sulthana
Pages: 20–25
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Chapter 4
Synthetic Selves, Fractured Futures: An Intersectional Posthumanist Reading of Kalki 2898 AD
Aarya Aakankshya Priyadarshini
Pages: 26–31
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch004
Chapter 5
The Rebirth of a Myth: A Posthuman Element Analysis of Lokah – Chapter 1: Chandra
Arundathi Krishna & Dr. Akhil V. P
Pages: 32–42
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch005
Chapter 6
Authorship in the Age of Algorithms: Rethinking Creativity through Posthumanism
Jeevi Eunice J
Pages: 43–58
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch006
Chapter 7
Beyond Human: A Posthumanistic Ecocritical Reading of Joe D’Cruz’s Ocean Rimmed World
Dr. B. Priyadarsini
Pages: 59–65
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch007
Chapter 8
Beyond the Human – Indigenous Posthumanism in Ngangom, Dai and Ao
Pratistha Panda
Pages: 66–70
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Chapter 9
Beyond the Rider: Sandrina as Co-Traveller in Jay Kannaiyan’s “Riding Towards Me”
Dinesh Raja V & Dr. V. Srividhya
Pages: 71–78
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch009
Chapter 10
Affective Posthumanism: Rethinking Emotional Life and Ethical Intimacy in the Age of AI Companions
Mariatta D. Kappan
Pages: 79–88
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Chapter 11
Decolonial Forces in Kalpavigyan
Sreyasi Dey
Pages: 89–97
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch011
Chapter 12
Deferring the Promise of the Real and the Ethics of Displacement in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima My Love (1959)
Nabanita Roy
Pages: 98–106
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch012
Chapter 13
The Datafied Self: Networked Consciousness and Embodied Reality in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This
Abirami T & Dr. Lourdes Antoinette Shalini
Pages: 107–112
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch013
Chapter 14
Digital Selves and Fragmented Subjectivities: Posthuman Identity in Contemporary South Indian Speculative Fiction
Harini J
Pages: 113–122
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Chapter 15
Posthuman Narratives: Deconstructing the Human in 21st Century Science Fiction
Dr. Vetriselvi G
Pages: 123–130
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch015
Chapter 16
From Guilt to Ghosts: Posthuman Subjectivity and Fragmented Selves in The Ghost Writer
Niblin Niknash A. N. & Dr. C. S. Arunprabu
Pages: 131–138
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch016
Chapter 17
The Posthuman Patienthood and Critical Care
Ashish Xavier Varghese
Pages: 139–144
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch017
Chapter 18
From Archive to Algorithm: Rethinking Humanities Scholarship in a Post-Humanist Frame
Manoj Kumar S & Dr. Harie Karthikeyan M
Pages: 145–153
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch018
Chapter 19
How AI and Memory Change People in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Graciana Kathryn S & Dr. K. Shantichitra
Pages: 154–161
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch019
Chapter 20
The AI Listener: Understanding Intimacy, Vulnerability and the Illusion of Connection in the Age of AI Companions through Spike Jonze’s Her
Nandini Mohapatra
Pages: 162–170
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch020
Chapter 21
Posthumanist Visions in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Dystopias
Asifa Tamjeed
Pages: 171–179
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch021
Chapter 22
The Victimization of Humanoids and Robots through Sierra Greer’s Annie BOT and Ben Young’s Extinction
Keerthana S
Pages: 180–185
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch022
Chapter 23
The Indian Value System and Posthumanism: The ‘Alignment Problem’ in the Indian Context
Nazm Us Saqib
Pages: 186–192
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch023
Chapter 24
Posthumanist Perspectives on Motherhood: Exploring Interspecies Care through Novel and Film – The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Pooja K
Pages: 193–202
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch024
Chapter 25
Posthumanism in the Digital Age: Navigating AI Ethics, Environmental Crisis and Decolonial Futures
Abishek Asokan & Dr. C. S. Arunprabu
Pages: 203–207
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch025
Chapter 26
The Posthuman Tribal: Reclaiming Indigenous Voices in the Age of Technology
R. K. Ganga Devi & Dr. C. S. Arunprabu
Pages: 208–212
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Chapter 27
Reimagining Kinship and Becoming: Posthumanist Readings of Namita Gokhale’s Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions
Dr. Brindha B
Pages: 213–220
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch027
Chapter 28
Indian K-Pop Love and the Posthuman Condition: Technology, Desire, and the Crisis of Human Belonging
Sanjaya Jani
Pages: 221–230
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch028
Chapter 29
Navigating Gender and Feminism in the Novels of Anita Nair and Kavery Nambisan
N. Sivamadhi & N. Sathiyarajan
Pages: 231–238
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Chapter 30
Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ through Harawayan Posthumanist Lens
Snigdha Das
Pages: 239–245
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Chapter 31
Social Media, AI Surveillance, and Human Dignity: A Post-Humanist Synthesis
Joshy N. George & Dr. Rajesh R
Pages: 246–252
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch031
Chapter 32
Future Memories in a War-Stricken Land: Textualising Chaos and Resilience in Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble
Sowmya Shree S & Dr. V. David Arputha Raj
Pages: 253–259
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch032
Chapter 33
Posthuman Encounters: Human–Alien Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Drama
Dr. S. Meenakshi
Pages: 260–263
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch033
Chapter 34
Literary Horizons: Stories in a Posthuman Age
Sonia Monika Sumbrui
Pages: 264–272
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch034
Chapter 35
Language Beyond the Human: Neologisms, Code, and Posthuman Expression in Cyberpunk Worlds
Sujatha M. & Dr. K. SivaShankari
Pages: 273–278
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch035
Chapter 36
Śūnyatā to Posthumanism: Indic Philosophical Traditions in Dialogue with Contemporary Thought
Karan Budhani
Pages: 279–284
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch036
Chapter 37
Posthuman Entanglements: Dalit Women Recasting Agency in Contemporary Indian Writing
Sushmitha Udhayasankar
Pages: 285–291
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch037
Chapter 38
Beyond Panopticon: The Nexus of Surveillance, Technodictatorship, and Dystopian Realities in Contemporary Television
Swet K. K. Singh & Rachit Kumar
Pages: 292–300
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch038
Chapter 39
The Ecofeminist Cyborg: A Posthuman Analysis of the Manga Series Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Tanvi Shah
Pages: 301–309
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch039
Chapter 40
Technoculture and Posthumanism in Iron Man’s Cross-Media Narratives
Sundharaperumal M. & Dr. V. Srividhya
Pages: 310–319
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch040
Chapter 41
The Ecological Domino Effect: A Posthumanist Examination of Human Vulnerability and Interdependence in Fiction and the Real World
Archa Gopan
Pages: 320–325
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch041
Chapter 42
The Killer of Pariksit: A Posthuman Enquiry
Ujani Banerjee
Pages: 326–331
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch042
Chapter 43
The Phoenix Rises in Silence: A Critical Examination of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel as a Posthumous Testament
R. Santhana Lakshmi
Pages: 332–338
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch043
Chapter 44
The Sovereign Soul in Posthumanist Discourse: Insights from Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Literature
Poorva Vashistha
Pages: 339–349
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch044
Chapter 45
When the Chatbox Becomes the Confidant
Juveena
Pages: 350–358
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch045
Chapter 46
Posthuman Women on Screen: A Cross-Cultural Study of Gendered AI, Emotional Labor, and the Posthuman Gaze in Global Cinema
Megha Sirkar & Dr. Bidisha Munshi
Pages: 359–382
DOI: 10.34293/shanlax.9789361632587.ch046