In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s ‘The Coming Race’ ventures down a mining cave and eventually finds himself being welcomed into the underground

The mutualistic symbiosis between posthuman and prosthesis
In Edward Bulwer- Lytton’s “The Coming Race” from 1871 it is made quite clear how the writer’s notion of the

Entering the Uncanny Valley – a second earth under our feet.
The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lyttons book “The Coming Race” enters an unknown and utopian world beneath the surface of the

Becoming bird, becoming Other – glimpses of affect and affirmation in The Coming Race
Bulwer-Lytton’s narrative describes a precarious human species as “the child (of the nether valley) could have killed me as easily

A1G13 The Matrix, AI, AL, Hayles
This artistic representation of the posthuman is from the 1999 film The Matrix by the Watchowskis – a post-apocalyptic vision

Visions of Something Above – and Below – Humanity
The description of the curious race of beings in The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton embodies a perspective of humanity

‘Ethno-cyborgs’: The Posthuman Performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra
Establishing a link between the posthuman and other theoretical frameworks that have sought to unsettle essentialist conceptions of the subject,
Lesson 2 has begun!
Laura Søvsø Thomasen’s video lecture is now available for watching on the Lesson 2-page, which also contains information on curriculum and

The Coming Race – The Spiritual Singularity.
In ”The Coming Race” by Lord Lytton, we are introduced to a subterranean terrestrial race known as the ”Ana”. They

Ex Machina and the Posthuman
The film Ex Machina seems to ask important questions about what constitutes the human and, by extension, the posthuman.