A posthuman(ish) syllabus - books on or related to posthumanism, transhumanism, cybernetics, autopoiesis, tech, & the (non?)human.
created by rai.bread
last updated August, 2026
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us: A Constellation Novel
Yiming Ma
The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)
S. Jeffery
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body
Kim Toffoletti
Childrenâs Literature and the Posthuman: Animal, Environment, Cyborg (Children's Literature and Culture)
Zoe Jaques
Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory (Science and Cultural Theory)
Mark B.N. Hansen
Posthuman Bodies (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)
Judith Halberstam
Posthuman Rap
Justin Adams Burton
What Is Posthumanism?
Cary Wolfe
The Second Self: Computers & the Human Spirit (20th Anniversary)
Sherry Turkle
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain
Robert Pepperell
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42)
Humberto R. Maturana
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
Jane Bennett
Alien Phenomenology, or What Itâs Like to Be a Thing (Posthumanities)
Ian Bogost
Queer Inhumanisms (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Numbers 2-3)
Mel Chen
Skin Police Vol. 1: Crimes Against Nature
Jordan Thomas
Computing machinery and intelligence
Alan M. Turing
For Want of a Nail
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
Melinda Hall
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze
The Animal That Therefore I Am
Jacques Derrida
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
N. Katherine Hayles
A Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna J. Haraway
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Mark O'Connell
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
Tamara Kneese
Love, Robot
Margaret Rhee
Prophet, Volume 1: Remission
Brandon Graham
D4VE
Ryan Ferrier
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