New Publication: ‘Communicating human and non-human otherness’

Edited by Passeio’s coordinators, Helena Pires and Zara Pinto-Coelho (CECS – Centre for Communication and Society Studies/University of Minho), together with Luísa Magalhães (CEFH – Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies/Portuguese Catholic University), the book ‘Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness’ addresses the generic theme of the ‘Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication’ series – that is, studies on alterity and communication – from the perspectives of urban culture and post-humanist studies.

The book brings together a wide variety of essays that examine the different ways in which agency reinvents itself, whether in the urban space, through the multiple forms and devices of art and culture, or through the relationship with technology and the surrounding environment, as a result of the contemporary conditions of posthumanism and the anthropocene. The sense of becoming other is added through a new paradigm that combines 1) a theoretical-essayistic mode, supported by illustrative cases, with 2) the description of artistic processes and literary production.

The essays were written by an international group of academics/artists from the humanities and social sciences, made up of Cristina Álvares, Pier Luca Marzo, Edwige Armand, Chiara Mengozzi, Ricardo G. Soeiro, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Mónica Aubán Borrell, Luis Campos Medina, Bill Psarras, Cíntia Sanmartin Fernandes, Micael Herschmann, Mitja Velikonja, Teresa Mora and Tiago Porteiro.

Published at the end of 2024, the book is available in English on the Springer Nature website.