The Things We Leave Behind: Rethinking posthumanism through the lens of waste by Trishala Dutta

I commit this essay to think about the human body- constituting flesh and mind- performing a visceral, affective, chemical, biologic, and sensorial activity that gives emergence to the idea of a self and connects it to multiple histories.

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Posthumanist Interpretations of Surveillance through Multiple Choice Questionnaires and the Need to Fit in by Sukanya Maity

This paper seeks to analyse the motives behind the MCQization of Academia, in the context of neoliberal India amidst rising capitalism and monopolisation, and how posthumanist interventions can and must be used to do away with it, providing space for imagination and opinions, which also is a dire necessity.

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The Sacrilegious Goddess: Giti Chandra’s “The Goddess Project” and the intersection of Postcolonial and Feminist Posthumanism by Souvik Kar

This paper situates a conversation between Rosi Braidotti's (2017) configuration of feminist posthumanities as a critique of androcentric humanism and Md. Monirul Islam's (2016) interrogation of posthumanism's neocolonial implications.

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Cyber-Community Formation through Pokémon Go and the Question of Posthuman Private Spaces in India by Nisarga Bhattacharjee and Ananya Chatterjee

Especially from an Indian perspective, the central political conflict in the game is between the humanist idea of freedom and private property versus a posthuman notion of freedom as realized within a cyber collective.

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