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 five sections of the book explore topics that put posthumanist forms of thinking, applied as academic and artistic practices, in conversation with: the politics of neoliberalism; social discrimination; ecological concerns; digital governmental control; and digital image production.

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. She works as senior postdoc in the Art Theory and Cultural Studies department at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she leads the Austrian Science Fund project (Habilitation) “The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics”. Publications include Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance (2024); co-ed. ex. cat. Suddenly Begin in Splendour: Rose English (2024); peer-reviewed articles, essays, and art criticism in art magazines.

Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer and researcher examining the way culture is socially and digitally produced. She holds a curatorial position at The Ryder Projects (Madrid), is visiting lecturer at the CuratorLab Konstfak University of Arts, Crafts and Design Stockholm, and a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.