This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.

• Contents
• Introduction
• I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress
  • 1 Humanity Has a Choice
  • 2 Investing in Disaster
  • 3 Gender, Religions, and the SDGs
• II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past
  • 4 The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz
  • 5 From Gas Chambers to 9/11
  • 6 Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor’s Story
• III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins
  • 7 The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction
  • 8 Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male
• Part IV: Posthuman Futures
  • 9 Human versus Cyborg Life
  • 10 “Not Born in a Garden”
• V: Humanity in the Digital Era
  • 11 Radical Post-Cartesianism
  • 12 Actual Fantasy, Modulation Chains, and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors