About the Journal

Journal of Posthumanism is an international multilingual peer-reviewed scholarly Open Access journal promoting innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM. In line with the efforts of creating a broad network beyond disciplinary boundaries, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in this technologically-saturated, ecologically damaged world, and transcend the traditional conception of the human while encouraging philosophical thinking beyond humanism.  

The Journal of Posthumanism is an Open Access publication, allowing users to freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles for any lawful purpose without requiring permission from the publisher or author. 

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Journal Founded: 2020
ISSN 2634-3576 (Print) | ISSN 2634-3584 (Online)
Publication Frequency: Three Issues a year in Winter, Summer and Fall from 2022 onwards. 

Current Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024)
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Published: 2024-09-10

Dossier: Posthuman Encounters - Desires, Fears, and the Uncanny

  • Introduction

    Jana-Katharina Burnikel, Joachim Frenk, Anne Hess
    61-70
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3356

  • Westworld and Humans: The Sentimental Disposition of Popular Posthumanism

    Christian Krug
    71-78
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3339

  • Homo Crispr and the Uncanny Art of Self-Reproduction

    Dunja M. Mohr
    79-89
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3350

  • The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology for Brain Enhancement

    Kevin LaGrandeur
    91-98
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3340

  • Of Information Superhighways, Sexbots, Friends: The Delights of the Uncanny

    Cordula Lemke
    99-106
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3357

  • AI at Elsinore: What Horatio can teach us about Artificial Intelligence

    Stephan Laque
    107-114
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3355

  • Screening Posthuman Procreation and Monstrous Motherhood in Raised by Wolves

    Jana-Katharina Burnikel
    115-122
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3338

  • Posthuman Encounters and Patterns of Care in Klara and the Sun (2021) or, What Ishiguro’s AI Tells Us About the Uncanny Valley

    Diane Leblond
    123-132
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3348

  • “They are here. They are everywhere. They are us.” – Posthuman Encounters in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes (2018)

    Heike Missler
    133-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3347

  • Fungal Intelligence and the Posthuman: Mycohuman Art, Entangled Theory, and Fungi in (Eco-)Gothic Narratives

    Susanne Gruss
    141-149
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3341

  • “The Scrapyard at the End of the Universe”: Waste Spaces as Incubators for Uncanny AI in the Doctor Who Episode “The Doctor’s Wife”

    Anne Hess
    151-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3326

  • The Digital Hereafter, or: Nirvana in the Cloud

    Dirk Vanderbeke
    159-167
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/joph.v4i2.3344
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