From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as K^uki ningy^o [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol 'es l'elekrol [On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chlo'e Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging...
From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationshi...