Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness: Urban Culture, Technology and Post-Humanism

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: Beyond Human: Otherness and the Subject in Psychoanalysis and Posthumanism
	Introduction
	The Anthropocentric Deadlock in Psychoanalysis
	Psychoanalysis and Posthumanism: Turning Their Backs on Each Other
	The Significant Materiality of the Lacanian Other
	The Substantial Materiality of the Posthumanist Other
	Small others
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: The Man in the Connective Mind: Imaginary, Self, and Society in the Age of the Infocene
	The Thinking World of the Infocene: An Introductory Framework
	The Connective Imaginary of Homo Simplex
	Infodemia as a Total Global Fact
	References
Chapter 4: Creation and Posthumanism
	Foreword
	Introduction
	An Anthropocentric and Separatist Structural Heritage
	Vegetate, be a … Sentient Vegetable!
	Opening: Between Overcoming Biological Reductionism and Human Exceptionalism
	References
Chapter 5: Letting the Planet Speak: Nonhuman Voices Through Narrative, Sound Art, and Technology
	Introduction: The Extension of Our Interdependencies
	Making Audible the Inaudible
	Taking on the Challenges of Representation
	Conclusion
	Post-credits
	References
Chapter 6: A Grain of Sand in the Anthropocentric Machine: Entanglements and Otherness in the Poetry of W. Szymborska
	In Lieu of an Introduction: Becoming-With, Becoming-Other
	Szymborska’s Book of Genesis: From Devonian Tail Fins to the Writing Hand
	The Keeper of Metamorphoses: Entanglement and Species Cosmopolitanism
	“What Moral Flows from This? Probably None”: Inconclusive Remarks
	References
Chapter 7: Mapping the Voices of Others in an Urban Context
	Introduction
	Exploring the Urban Skin: A Wanderer’s Journey through Socio-Political Echoes
		Why Create the ‘Map of the Voices of Others’
		The Practice as a Research Tool in the Examination of the Socio-Political Echo of the City
	Mapping Athens: Reimagining Crisis through Urban Surfaces
		Placing Further Emphasis on Technology and Map-Making as a Research Methodology
		The De-Mapped Maps
	Unveiling Athens: Crisis, Mapping, and Urban Resilience
		De-Mapping the Map of Athens in Crisis: The Skin of the City Is the Map of the Crisis
		A) The Mapping
		B) The De-Mapping
		The Skin of the Crisis
		Virtual Tour on Google Maps (Online Performance)
		The Map Used for this Virtual Tour Can Be Accessed at the Following Link
		The Examined Spots
		New Technologies: 3D Scanning in Image-Making of Ruins
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Living in High-Density Towers: Ghetto, Precariousness, and Becoming Other
	Introduction
	Emergences: New Typology, New Precariousness
	Receptions: On Becoming Other
	Extreme Living with: Ghetto, Density, Precarity
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 9: City as a Poetic Database Through Walking, New Media and Site Interventions: Performing and Transforming Urban Otherness
	Intro: Ideas and Metaphors for the City and the Human
	Step(s) into/with the Other: A City of Encounters and Edges
	Mediated Gestures Across the City: The Technopoetics of Interface
	Conclusions: City as a Method of Reflection
	References
Chapter 10: The Street and the Circles as a Space for Women’s (re)Existence in the City of Rio de Janeiro
	Activisms in Times of Urgencies
	Re-Existences in the City
	Using Metaphors of Ants, Bees, Fireflies and Butterflies
	Street Female Music Scene in the City of Rio de Janeiro
	Final Considerations
	References
Chapter 11: Don’t Trans*Phobe, Trans*Form Yourself—(Anti-)Homophobic and (Anti)Patriarchal Graffiti of the Post-Socialist Transition
	Introduction
	Graffiti and Street Art Related to Gender and Sexuality Issues
		Patriarchal Discourses
		Feminist Responses
	Questioning Gender Binarism
		Denunciation
		Self-Identification
		Homophobia
		Anti-Homophobia
		Anti-Transphobia
		Direct Politicization of the Movement
	Ways of Resisting
		Spontaneous Resistance
		Organized Resistance
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
		Sources
Chapter 12: Re-Inventing Intergenerational Relationships Through Participatory Art: A Study About Duetos/Installation-Performance
	Introduction
	How we Studied Duetos
	Fazer Presente: Social and Artistic Proposals
	Seniors/Juniors: Contrasts in Duetos
	The Creative Process: #1 Strategies of Participation
	The Creative Process: #2 Interrelationship Procedures
	Self-Portrait
	Space
	Time
	Shape
	Movement
	Story
	Emotion
	Dealing with the Presentation of Duetos Installation-Performance
	Final Considerations
	References