Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media

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Title Page
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Foreword: Posthumanism in the Year of COVID-19
An Implosive Introduction: Haunted Experiences, Affective Assemblages, and Collective Imaginings
Part I Discontents of the Human and Its Others
	1 Yearning for the Human in Posthuman Times: On Camus’ Tragic Humanism
	2 Viruses as Posthuman Biocultural Creatures: Parasites, Biopolitics, and Contemporary Literary Reflections
Part II Pathogenic Temporalities
	3 Viral Temporalities: Literatures of Disease and Posthuman Conceptions of Time
	4 Pathogenic Hugs and Ambiguous Times: The Joy Epidemic in Gumball
Part III Pestilentia Loquens: Narrative Agency of Disease
	5 Symbiotic Adaptation in Posthuman Feminist Environs: Viral Becomings in Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite
	6 Power Or Despair: Contagious Diseases in Turkish History and Miniature Paintings
Part IV Contagious Networks of Communication
	7 Hyperobjects, Network Ontologies, and the Pandemic Response in Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio
	8 Entangled Humans, Entangled Languages: A Posthumanist Applied Linguistic Analysis of COVID-19 On Reddit
Part V From Medical Humanities to Medical Posthumanities
	9 HIV, Dependency, and Prophylactic Narrative in Bryan Washington’s “Waugh”
	10 The Vampire as Posthumanist Pharmakon: Towards a Critical Medical Humanities
	CODA: Affirming the Pathogenesis
	Afterword: Posthuman Healing and Revealing
Index