Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman : striving for more ethical cohabitation / Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Karoliina Lummaa, Essi Varis

Part 1. Toward posthumanist literature and posthumanist reading

On the possibility of a posthuman/ist literature(s) / Carole Guesse

Posthumanist reading : witnessing ghosts, summoning nonhuman powers / Karoliina Lummaa

Becoming-instrument : thinking with Jeff VanderMeer’s annihilation and Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio

Part 2. Imagining aliens and monsters

Alien overtures : speculating about nonhuman experiences with comic book characters / Essi Varis

Playing the nonhuman : alien experiences in aliens vs. predator / Jonne Arjoranta

Wild things squeezed in the closet : monsters of children’s literature as nonhuman others / Marleena Mustola, Sanna Karkulehto

Part 3. Becoming with animals

Dead dog talking : posthumous, preposthumous, and preposterous canine narration in Charles Siebert’s Angus / Mikko Keskinen

Carnivorous anatomies : art and being beasts / Brad Bolman

Reconfiguring human and nonhuman animals in a guiding assemblage : toward posthumanist conception of disability / Hana Porkertová

Part 4. Technological (co-)agencies

Meeting the machine halfway : toward non-anthropocentric semiotics / Cléo Collomb, Samuel Goyet

Journeys in intensity : human and nonhuman co-agency, neuropower, and counterplay in minecraft / Marleena Huuhka

Cyborganic wearables : sociotechnical misbehavior and the evolution of nonhuman agency / Patricia Flanagan, Raune Frankjær

Part 5. Afterword

Unnarratable matter : emergence, narrative, and material ecocriticism / Juha Raipola