The proposed ‘symbiotic turn’ reflects on the human kind’s future and defamiliarizes the mainstream narratives of humanity so it could be better understood in how it is constructed, performed, and protected.

Contents – Pramod K. Nayar Looking through the Symbiotic Lens – Francesca Ferrando “We Are The Earth”: Posthumanist Realizations in the Era of the Anthropocene – Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki Introduction: Towards a Symbiosis of Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities or Paving Narratives for the Symbiocene PART I Framing the Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies – Roberto Marchesini Somatizing Alterity: Technology and Hybridization in the Post- Human Era – Teresa Heffernan Rethinking “Queer Kin Groups”: Cyborgs, Animals, and Machines – Mieke Bal How to Say It? Symbiosis as Inter- Ship – Peggy Karpouzou Symbiotic Citizenship in Posthuman Urban Ecosystems: Smart Biocitiesin Speculative Fiction PART II Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Literature and Art – Bruce Clarke Cracking Open: Ecological Communication in Richard Powers’ The Overstory – Irene Sanz Alonso Posthuman Subjects in Rosa Montero’s Los tiempos del odio – Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Cyber body as Medium of Art. The Case of Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas – Dimitris Angelatos Folded Tactility: Tracing Metabolic Artistic Practices in Contemporary Sculpture – David Fancy Geomancy vs Technomancy: Resonance, Divination and Gilbert Simondon’s Thought PART III Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Continental Philosophy – Nicole AndersonAnimal- Human Differences: The Deconstructive Force of Posthumanism – Fred Evans Deleuzian Cosmopolitanism: From the Capitalist Axiomatic to the “Chaosmocene” – Glen A. Mazis A Posthumanist Truly Back to the Things Themselves: Merleau- Ponty’sEmbodied Phenomenology and Literary Language – Cassandra Falke Eco- Phenomenology in the Dark – Avital Ronell Nietzsche Apologizes for the Weather: A Storm Chaser’s Report – Notes on Contributors – Index