Imagining Posthuman Care

This account is no longer active. We explore how philosophies & practices of care can be reimagined in dialogue with posthumanism.

[Imagining Posthuman Care @Posthumancare]

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[Centre for Care @CentreForCare]

We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow to join our team at the Centre for Care.
Please share!
Follow this link for more information & to apply:

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[Imagining Posthuman Care @Posthumancare]

New review of the @Posthumancare book is now available @TheBSLS ⬇️

[The BSLS @TheBSLS]

We have a new review on our website. Our outgoing Chair, Jenni Halpin, has reviewed the winner of the BSLS Book Prize for 2024, Amelia DeFalco's Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care: https://t.co/gjGRv31bMD

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

To celebrate the ⁦@TheBSLS⁩ prize ⁦@OUPAcademic⁩ has added a second free chapter download of Curious Kin. Get chapter 3 (and the intro) for free until the end of May.

[Imagining Posthuman Care @Posthumancare]

The @Posthumancare monograph, Curious Kin, has won the @TheBSLS book prize! You can download the book’s introduction for free (until May) here https://t.co/L33v7xi1IW

[The BSLS @TheBSLS]

The society is thrilled to announce that Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco has won the BSLS book prize for her wonderful work Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care.

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

To celebrate the @TheBSLS nomination, the introduction for Curious Kin is free to download this month: https://t.co/AsC7ddYDfA

[Organization, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) @WorkshopOAP]

🌐 Out yesterday! "Organization studies and posthumanism: towards a more than human world" @routledgebooks: https://t.co/93hcCBKk44 Following #OAP2022 at @SFSU and @Stanford #posthumanism #toohuman

[Imagining Posthuman Care @Posthumancare]

The @Posthumancare book has been nominated for the @TheBSLS book prize!

[The BSLS @TheBSLS]

Amelia DeFalco's Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care (OUP):
A study of narrative representations of twenty-first-century posthuman care that offers a unique, posthumanist exploration of contemporary fiction

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

Today is Curious Kin publication day! 🎉🎉Thanks to my many research collaborators at @itdfproject @Posthumancare & @LBObjects and @OUPAcademic @Jack_McNichol.

Review copies available here: https://t.co/Pwsip7MlCA

Link to free Introduction download below⬇️

[Wendy Martin @wendymartin007]

Delighted that my copy of the @routledgebooks edited book with my wonderful co-editors @AlexanderPeine @socbarb Louis Neven. The introduction is available free too https://t.co/djUy1CwGOd

[dr. nicole dalmer @nicoledalmer]

but a few scenes from day 1 of #agecaregraz2023 conference, featuring the opening keynote by Joan Tronto (!!!) and the “lines of help” exhibition about 24/7 carers. #gerotwitter

[dr. nicole dalmer @nicoledalmer]

Day 3 of #agecaregraz2023: I felt quite spoiled listening to @AmeliaDefalco share how thinking of more than human relations can prompt us to rethink our approaches to aging and care | @Posthumancare

[Imagining Posthuman Care @Posthumancare]

@Posthumancare, the book, is out soon! Further details, including a free chapter download ⬇️

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

My latest book, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care, will be published soon. It's about more-than-human care in recent recent literature, film, and television. I've been working on it for quite a few years and its nice to have it out in the world.
https://t.co/rhLqg6PouO

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

Nice to see my essay “What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use” is now available in Configurations. https://t.co/L0eh1zJQsk

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

Nice to see @Posthumancare spotlighted in the @UoLSSI bulletin. The exhibition has concluded, but the project monograph will be out this summer.

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

I was sorry to miss this launch event, but great to see @Posthumancare featured in the @UoLSSI co-production research toolkit. A great resource for anyone looking to develop interdisciplinary collaborations. @LeedsUniEnglish

[Amelia DeFalco @AmeliaDefalco]

It was a pleasure to put this special issue on “Affective Technotouch” together with @lunadolezal. Wonderful to see our introduction is online now. The complete issue will be available soon.

[James Wright @jms_wright]

Delighted to announce that my book, Robots Won't Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation, is now out with Cornell University Press!
For anyone interested, there is a 30% discount using the code 09BCARD :
https://t.co/WdVVdzzxpD

[Dame Averil Cameron @19Averil]

How do we stop the robot takeover? Oxford has a plan. Ignore the cliches about Oxford and read the article. @JTasioulas

https://t.co/4fHRJqgAIt