Rethinking Posthumanism in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The article analyzes how the coronavirus pandemic changed the definition of posthumanism. The starting point of the article is the observation that the Coronavirus has turned out to be not an epidemiological singularity but rather a globally noticed origin of new pandemic threats, one of many which emerge nearly annually. Although from 2010 onwards many scientists and science journalists have been writing about and warning against what they often called “a New Pandemic Age,” it eventually became common knowledge and a widely recognized threat only after the last pandemic. The author of the article analyzes the effects of the pandemic on the development of posthumanities research, referring, among others, to research by S. E. Wilmer and Audroné Žukauskaité; as well as to the thesis of Bruce Clarke and Dorion Sagan.