Using critical and poetic practice-as-research techniques, this transdisciplinary open access book explores the potential of posthumanist thinking for critiquing the mechanisms of twenty-first century political economy.

The six sections of the book explore topics that put posthumanist forms of thinking, applied as academic and artistic practices, in conversation such as with: artificial intelligence; the politics of (digital) neoliberalism; image production; the economies of embodiment; social discrimination; human and non-human performance; multi-species organization; infrastructure and logistics.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund.

Lisa Moravec is an art historian-performance scholar, and occasional art critic and curator. Focusing on the transdisciplinary intersections of the performing and visual arts and their critical discourses, she works as senior postdoc in the Art Theory and Cultural Studies Department at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, leading the Austrian Science Fund project (Habilitation) “The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics”.
Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer and researcher whose work explores how culture is produced in digital environments, with a focus on gender, labour and expanded ecologies. She is currently course leader of the BA Creative Media Arts program at IED Madrid (Istituto Europeo di Design) and visiting lecturer in the CuratorLab, Konstfack (University of Arts, Crafts, Design) in Stockholm.