Session Details

Sunday, 30 December

672. Ontologies of the Posthuman and Politics in the Wake of the Human

8:30–9:45 a.m., Atlanta, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

1. “Colonial Inscriptions: Becoming Human in Colonial Egypt (1882–1936),” Samara Esmeir, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2. “The Future Usability of the Unfree: Skin, Blood, Bones, Despair, and Our Present-Future Expressions of Human Knowledge,” Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s Univ.

3. “Habeas Viscus,” Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern Univ.

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