Posthuman Economies: Literary and Cultural Imaginations of the Postindustrial Human

James Dorson (FU Berlin, JFK Institute): “Posthuman Humanism: The Progressive Era, Humanistic Management, and the Rise of the Network Self”

Kalpana Seshadri (Boston College): “Post-Human Economics: An Overview”

Fabian Eggers (FU Berlin, JFK Institute): “An Author Who Feels Their Pain: The Emotional Economy Underlying David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King”

Morgane Ghilardi (UZH) and Scott Loren (St. Gallen): “Technandrology—A Symbolics of Human-Machine Interaction in the Postindustrial Paradigm”

Joyce Goggin (Amsterdam): “De Doctrina Neoliberali”

Christian Kloeckner (Bonn): “‘Everybody wants to own the end of the world’: Dreams of Immortality and the Biofinancial Order in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and Zero K”

Martin Leer (Geneva): “Human Economies and Narrative Exchange in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William Faulkner’s The Hamlet”

Marlon Lieber (Kiel): “Fully Automated Luxury Pastoralism: Rereading Lewis Mumford’s Technics and Civilization”

Katharina Motyl (Mannheim): “Dehumanizing the Poor, Anima-ting the Corporation: Carceral Expansion and Other Paradoxes of the Neoliberal Age”

Stefanie Müller (Münster): “Frankenstein, Inc.—Corporate Personhood in Twenty-First-Century Poetry”

J. Jesse Ramirez (St. Gallen): “Harry Braverman’s Humanist Philosophy of Automation”

A. Elisabeth Reichel (Basel): “The Neoliberal Democratic Imaginary and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom”

Juliane Strätz (Mannheim): “Speed and the Fragility of the Worker”

The event is free, but advance registration with elisabeth.reichel@clutterunibas.ch is appreciated.

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