The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia

I. Introductiona. Critical Posthumanismb. Posthumanism in Russiac. Overview of the ArticlesII. Questions of Ethics and Alterity1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse Sofya Khagi, University of MichiganIII. Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments4. Environmentalism and the Man of the Future: Discursive Practices in the 1970s Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago5. Daedalus and the Cyborg: Human-Machine Hybridity in Late-Soviet Design Diana Kurkovsky West, European University at St. Petersburg6. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of LondonIV. Technologies of the Self7. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction Jacob Emery, Indiana University8. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in `Real Time' Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College9. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignV. Politics and Social Action10. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh11. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of PittsburghVI. AfterwordKeti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines