Performance and Posthumanism

Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a conditionthat has already long been upon us. We have entered a posthuman era, anassertion shared by an increasing number of thinkers such as N. Katherine Hayles,Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Richard Grusin, and BernardStiegler. The performing arts have reacted to these developments by increasinglyopening up their traditionally 'human' domain to non-human others. Bothphilosophy and performing arts thus question what it means to be human froma posthumanist point of view and how the agency of non-humans - be theytechnology, objects, animals, or other forms of being - 'works' on both anontological and performative level.The contributions in this volume brings together scholars, dramaturgs, andartists, uniting their reflections on the consequences of the posthuman conditionfor creative practices, spectatorship, and knowledge.