Post·hum·an·ous

Reconstruction, Summer 2004: Volume 4, Number 3
Guest Editors: C. Jason Smith, Ximena Gallardo-C., and Geoff Klock
ISSN: 1547-4348

Table of Contents:

Editorial

C. Jason Smith, Geoff Klock, and Ximena Gallardo-C. "Post·hum·an·ous"

Theory

Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter "The Latecoming of the Posthuman,
Or, Why 'We' Do the Apocalypse Differently, 'Now'"

Angela Woods "Schizophrenics, Cyborgs and the Pitfalls of Posthumanism"

Dongshin Yi "Toward a Posthuman Ethics"

Geoff Klock "X-Men, Emerson, Gnosticism"

Practice

Ximena Gallardo-C. "'Who Are You?': Alien/Woman as Posthuman Subject in Alien Resurrection"

Melanie Rosen Brown "Dead Astronauts, Cyborgs, and the Cape Canaveral Fiction of J.G. Ballard:A Posthuman Analysis"

Tama Leaver ""The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital": Posthuman Possibilities, Embodiment and Technology in William Gibson's Interstitial Trilogy"

Miranda Campbell "Probing the Posthuman: Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2 and the
Mind-Body Problem"

Jennifer Attaway "Cyborg Bodies and Digitized Desires: Posthumanity and phillip k. dick"

Review Essays

Mike DuBose on Fox News' Coverage of the Death of Ronald Reagan (2004)

Ximena Gallardo-C. on Kapell and Doty's Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise (2004)

Davin Heckman on Mitchell's Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (2003)

Markus Rheindorf on Dixon's Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema (2003)

Kristen Schilt on Rubin's Self Made Men (2003) and Green's Becoming a Visible Man (2004)

Matthew Wolf-Meyer on Cary Wolfe's Animal Rites (2003) and Zoontologies (2003)

Reviews

Brunner, John. The Sheep Look Up (2003)

Manalansan, Martin F., IV. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003)

Saco, Diana. Cybering Democracy (2002)

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