To the Posthuman Born(e): The Post-natural World of Jeff VanderMeer

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Description: In this essay, I argue that VanderMeer’s imagining of such a world in Borne is at once posthuman and post-natural, and the two are interconnected. The crux of the argument is that the posthuman is contingent upon, even as it produces, the post-natural.
Pramod K. Nayar
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