This volume constructs a posthumanist subject through philosophy, critical theory and literature. It tracks diverse developments of posthumanisms – from anti-humanism to poststructuralism and psychoanalysis – using micro-readings of literary narratives to situate posthumanist ideas and establish an interpretive praxis. Underlining the ethico-political strand, Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity demonstrates how to imagine a posthuman socio-political subject that renounces claims to species supremacy and anthropocentric privilege via the categories of animality, object, technology and ecology. The volume brings together lucid philosophical discussions on the nature of subjectivity with analyses of texts as diverse as Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, John Banville's Eclipse and Shroud, Ted Hughes's poetry, and Salman Rushdie's Shame, among many others.
Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity will help young scholars understand the concerns of posthumanism and point the way to possible avenues of future research.

Arka Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar. He is the author of Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real and has co-edited Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism and Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care (Orient BlackSwan 2023).

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor, Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata.

Preface
Udaya Kumar

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Anti-human, Nonhuman and Posthuman
2. Posthumanist Ethics and Politics
3. Posthumanist Tropes of Machines and Animals
4. The Human in the Object: Literature and Posthuman Object-Independence
5. Posthuman Ecologies

Coda: Posthumanist Subjectivity

Glossary
Further Reading

“Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity conducts an extensive theoretical and cultural critique of the normalized anthropocentric subject of modernity, calling for its replacement by a transversal nomadic and plural subject co-constituted by the nonhuman.”
— Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, Doshi Professor of Asian Art, Dept. Chair, East-West Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies

“Who are We? With eyes wide open, this book shines light on posthumanist subjectivity, showing how the wisdom of an antelope and the predictive models of big data are part of our collective unconscious.”
— Francesca Ferrando, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University

“Chattopadhyay persuasively pitches an ethico-political posthumanism as a vantage point from which a critique of capitalist transhumanism may be pursued.”
— from the Preface by Udaya Kumar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University