Here you’ll find a bibliography of relevant primary film and literary sources and critical theoretical secondary sources that will be continually added to as the project expands and evolves. It is our hope that, by presenting these, they will provide a starting point for future projects and inspire further academic exploration in posthuman(ist) memory.
Critical Theory
Agamben, Giorgio. (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Alaimo, Stacy. (2010) Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Assmann, Aleida. (2020) Is the Time Out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime. Trans. Sarah Clift. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Badmington, Neil. (2003) “Theorizing Posthumanism,” Cultural Critique, 53 (Winter), 10–27.
Bakhtin, Mikhail. (1981) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel.” The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 84–258.
Barad, Karen. (2003) “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.” Signs, 28: 3, 801-831.
Baumann, Zygmunt. (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Benjamin, Walter. (1969) “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 253–64.
—-. (2002) “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility.” Selected Writings. Vol. 3: 1935-1938. Trans. Edmund Jephcott et al. Ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. London: Harvard University Press, 101–33.
Bennett, Jill. (2003) Regimes of Memory. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin. London and New York: Routledge, 27-39.
Bergson, Henri. (1988) Matter and Memory. New York: Zone Books.
Bolter, Jay, and Richard Grusin. (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Boulter, Jonathan. (2019) Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Boym, Svetlana. (2001) The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books.
Braidotti, Rosi. (2013). The Posthuman. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
—-. (2018) Posthuman Glossary. London, etc.: Bloomsbury.
—-. (2019) Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
—-. (2014) Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere: Postsecular Publics. Ed. Rosi Braidotti, Bolette Blaagaard, Tobijn de Graauw, Eva Midden. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brown, William and David Fleming. (2020) The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinotheuthis Infernalis and The Emergence of Chthulumedia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Butler, Judith. (1993) Bodies that Matter. London and New York: Routledge.
Carruthers, Mary J. (1990) The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. (1954) Rhetorica ad Herennium. Trans. Harry Caplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
—-. De Oratore. (1979) New York: Arno Press.
Crownshaw, Richard, ed. (2011) “Introduction: Transcultural Memory.” Parallax, 17: 4, 1-3.
Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy. Ed. Stanley Tweyman. Trans. Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Deleuze, Gilles. (1986) Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
—-. (1989) Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
—- and Félix Guattari. (1987) A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 3–25.
—- and Félix Guattari. (1994) What Is Philosophy? Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell. New York: Columbia University Press, 201–218.
Derrida, Jacques. (1996) Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
—-. (1992) “How to Avoid Speaking: Denials,” Derrida and Negative Theology. Ed. Harold Coward and Toby Foshay. Albany: State University of New York Press, 73–142.
—-. (1986) Memoires for Paul De Man. Trans. Cecille Lindsay, Jonathan Culler, and Eduardo Cadava. New York: Columbia University Press.
—-. (1976) Of Grammatology. Trans. Gayatri Spivak. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Erll, Astrid. (2011) Memory in Culture. Trans. Sara B. Young. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ezra, Elizabeth. (2014) “Posthuman memory and the re(f)use economy.” French Cultural Studies, Vol. 25 (3/4), 378–386.
Ferrando, Francesca. (2019) Philosophical Posthumanism. London, etc.: Bloomsbury.
Foucault, Michel. (1971) The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage.
Geerts, Evelien. (2016) “Performativity.” New Materialisms Almanac. December.
Grosz, Elizabeth. (2011) “Time Out of Joint.” Time and History in Deleuze and Serres. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. London and New York: Continuum.
Grusin, Richard. (2010) Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
—-, ed. (2015) The Nonhuman Turn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Hansen, Mark. (2010) “Memory.” Critical Terms for Media Studies. Ed. W.J.T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 64–87.
Haraway, Donna. (1987) “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” Australian Feminist Studies 2: 4, 1–42.
Hayles, N. Katherine. (1999) How We Became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Herbrechter, Stefan. (2018) “Critical Posthumanism.” The Posthuman Glossary. Rosi Braidotti & Maria Hlavajova (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, 94–96.
—-. (2013) Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis. London, etc.: Bloomsbury.
Hirsch, Marianne. (1997) Family Frames—Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Huyssen, Andreas. (2003) Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Irigaray, Luce. (1985) This Sex Which is Not One. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Journal of Posthuman Studies. (2017-). Periodical. Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press.
Judt, Tony. (2010) The Memory Chalet. New York: Penguin Books.
Kaes, Anton. (1989) From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Kilbourn, Russell J.A. (2004) “Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” W.G. Sebald—A Critical Companion. Eds. J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 140-54. Reprinted in the U.S. and Canada by Washington University Press, Seattle: 2004.
—-. (2013a) “Camera Arriving at the Station: Cinematic Memory as Cultural Memory.” “Ghost-towns: Cityscapes, Memories and Critical Theory.” Special issue of Societies 3.3: 316-331. Eds. Graeme Gilloch and Changnam Lee. (Reprinted as “Kameraga yeoke dochakhada: munwhajeok giyeokuroseo yeongwhajeok giyeok” in Benjamingua 21 Segi Dosimunwha. Ed. Changnam Lee and Graeme Gilloch. Seoul: Saemulgyul Publisher, 2018, 223-255.)
—-. (2010) Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema. New York: Routledge.
—-. (2020a) “The ‘Fast Runner’ Trilogy, Inuit Cultural Memory and Knowledge (Re-) Production.” “Indigenous Knowledges in North America.” Special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Ed. Kerstin Knopf and Birgit Dawes.
—-. (2023a) Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond. Ed. Julia Empey and Russell J.A. Kilbourn. Bloomsbury Press.
—-. (2023b) “Introduction: Feminist Refractions of the Posthuman.” In Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival.” Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond. Ed. Julia Empey and Russell J. A. Kilbourn. Bloomsbury Press, 1-14.
—-. (2019) “The Inuit Elegiac: One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.” The Isuma Book (Venice Biennale). http://www.isuma.tv/isuma-book.
—-. (forthcoming 2024) “Memory After the Human: Posthumanist Memory and the Epimethean Elegiac”. Genealogy of the Posthuman. https://criticalposthumanism.net/genealogy/.
—-. (2013b) The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film. Ed. Russell J. A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty. Waterloo: WLU Press.
—-. (2014) “‘The Obligations of Memory’: Godard’s Underworld Journeys.” The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard. Eds. Christina Stojanova, Douglas Morrey, et al. Waterloo: WLU Press, 81-98.
—-. (2023c) “‘Originary Twoness’: Flashbacks and the Materiality of Memory in Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival.” Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond. Ed. Julia Empey and Russell J.A. Kilbourn. Bloomsbury Press, 240-61.
—-. (2017) “Premediation (Grusin).” International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. Ed. P. Roessler, C. Hoffner, & L. van Zoonen. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
—-. (2019) “The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption, and ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino.” The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 7:3. Special issue on “Paolo Sorrentino,” 377-94.
—-. (2012) “Prosthetic Memory and Transnational Cinema: Globalized Identity and Narrative Recursivity in City of God.” Millennial Cinema: Representations of Memory in Film. Eds. Terence McSweeney and Amresh Sinha. New York: Wallflower Press, 71-96.
—-. (2020b) “The Train is Always Arriving: Nostalgic Remediation in Remembrance.” Short Film Studies 10:1. Special issue on “Remembrance,” 65-68.
—-. (2016) “Translating Affect: Inuit Cinema, Affect Theory, and Knowledge (Re-) Production.” Knowledge Landscapes North America. Ed. Sabine Sielke, et al. Universitätsverlag Winter: Heidelberg, 269-88.
—-. (2005) “The Unnamable: Denegative Dialogue.” European Joyce Studies, 16: 63–89.
—-. (2018) W.G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Knittel, Susanne C. and Kari Driscoll, ed. (2017) “Introduction: Memory after Humanism.” Parallax, 23:4, 439-452.
Kracauer, Siegfried. (1997) Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Kristeva, Julia (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press.
Landsberg, Alison. (2004). Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Levinas, Emmanuel. (1986) “The Trace of the Other”. Trans. by Alphonso Lingis. Deconstruction in Context. Ed. Mark Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 345-359.
Lyotard, Jean-François. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991.
MacCormack, Patricia. (2012) Posthuman Ethics. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Marramao, Giacomo. (2007) Kairós: Towards an Ontology of “due Time.” Aurora, CO: Davies Group.
—-. (2005) Potere e secolarizzazione: Le categorie del tempo. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri.
Massumi, Brian. (2002) “The Autonomy of Affect.” Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 23-34.
—-. (2015) The Politics of Affect. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
McDonald, Ronald R. (1987) The Burial Places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Virgil, Dante and Milton. Cambridge, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press.
Memory Studies. (2008-) Periodical. Oakland, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Morton, Timothy. (2013) “What are Hyperobjects?” In Hyperobjects. Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 27–96.
Murray, Stuart. (2017) “Disability and Memory in Posthuman(ist) Narrative: Reading Prosthesis and Amnesia in Hollywood’s Re-membering of the ‘War on Terror’.” Parallax, 23:4, 439-452, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2017.1374514.
Paraskeva, Anthony. (2017) Samuel Beckett and Cinema. London, etc.: Bloomsbury Academic, 89-103.
Pence, Jeffrey. (2003) “Postcinema/Postmemory.” Memory and Popular Film. Ed. Paul Grainge. New York: Manchester University Press, 237-256.
Peperell, Robert. (2016) “Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory.” Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. Ed. Sebastian Groes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
—-. (1997) The Posthuman Condition. Chicago: Intellect.
Plate, Liedeke and Anneke Smelik, ed.. (2013) “Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture: An Introduction.” Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture. New York and London: Routledge.
Plato. (2007) From Theaetetus and Phaedrus.Theories of Memory: A Reader. Ed. Michael Rossington, Anne Whitehead and Linda R. Anderson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 25-27.
—-. (2004) Plato’s Meno. Newburyport, MA: R. Pullins Co.
—-. (2005) The Phaedrus. New York: Penguin Books.
—-. (1991) The Republic of Plato, 2nd ed. Trans. Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books.
—-. (2004) Plato’s Theaetetus. Newburyport, MA: R. Pullins Co.
Roden, David. (2018) “Speculative Posthumanism.” In The Posthuman Glossary. Rosi Braidotti & Maria Hlavajova (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, 398-401.
Rothberg, Michael. (2009) Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Scheer, Edward. (2012) “Posthuman Scenarios and Performative Media.” Performance Research, 17.3, 23-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2012.696856.
Sharp, Hasana. (2016) “Endangered Life: Feminist Posthumanism in the Anthropocene?” In Feminist Philosophies of Life. Hasana Sharp and Chloë Taylor (eds.). Montreal and Kingston: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 272-282.
Shaviro, Steven. (2010) Post-cinematic Affect. Washington, D.C.: Zero Books.
Smelik, Anneke. (2009) “The Virtuality of Time: Memory in Science Fiction Films.” Technologies of Memory in the Arts. Ed. Anneke Smelik and Liedeke Plate. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 52-68.
Spinoza, Baruch. (2002) Complete Works. Michael L. Morgan (ed.). Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.
Stiegler, Bernard. (2011) Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise. Trans. Stephen Barker. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Terdiman, Richard. (1993) Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl. (2017) “Posthuman Memory.” Exploring Text, Media, and Memory. Ed. Lars Sætre, et al.. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 515-536.
Turim, Maureen. (1989) Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History. New York: Routledge.
Wolfe, Cary. (2010) “What Is Posthumanism?” In What Is Posthumanism? Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, xi-xxxiv.
Literature
Beckett, Samuel. (1960) Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape. Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces. New York: Grove Press.
—-. (1991) Three Novels: “Molloy,” “Malone Dies,” “The Unnamable”. New York: Grove Press.
Brecht, Bertolt. (1990) Antigone. Trans. Judith Malina. Applause Theatre Books.
Chiang, Ted. (2016) “Story of Your Life.” Stories of Your Life and Others. New York: Vintage.
DeLillo, Don. (1986) White Noise. New York: Penguin Books.
Le Guin, Ursula K. (2019) The Lefthand of Darkness. Penguin Random House.
Levi, Primo. (1988) If This Is A Man and The Truce. Trans. Stuart Woolf. Bungay, Suffolk: Sphere Books.
Proust, Marcel. (1996) In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann’s Way. Trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff. London: Vintage.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. (2017) Ed. Abigail Rokison-Woodall. London, etc.: Bloomsbury.
Sophocles. Antigone. (1984) The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York and London: Penguin.
Tagaq, Tanya. (2018) Split Tooth. Penguin Canada.
Taubes, Susan. Lament for Julia. (2023) New York Review of Books.
VanderMeer, Jeff. (2014) Annihilation. London: Fourth Estate.
Von Kleist, Heinrich. (1994) “On the Marionette Theatre.” Essays on Dolls. Trans. Idris Parry and Paul Kegan. London and New York: Syrens/Penguin.
Yates, Frances. (1966) “The Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory,” The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1-26.
Woolf, Virginia. (2017) To the Lighthouse. Delphi Classics.
Films
Annihilation. (2018) Dir. Alex Garland. UK: Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, Scott Rudin Productions.
Antigone. (2019) Dir. Sophie Deraspe. Canada: Association Cooperative des Productions Audio Visuelles (ACPAV).
Arrival. (2016) Dir. Denis Villeneuve. USA: Lava Bear Films, FilmNation Entertainment, 21 Laps Entertainment.
Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner. (2001) Dir. Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. Canada: Igloolik Isuma Productions, National Film Board of Canada, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
L’avventura. (1960) Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. Italy + France: Cino del Duca, Produzioni Cinematografiche Europee (PCE), Societé Cinématographique Lyre.
Caché. (2005) Dir. Michael Haneke. France, Austria, Germany, Italy: Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams. (2010) Dir. Werner Herzog. Canada, USA, France, Germany, UK: Creative Differences, History Films, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
Decalogue 1. (1989) Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski. Poland and West Germany: Sender Freies Berlin, Telewizja Polska, Zespol Filmowy ‘Tor.’
Futura (2021). Dir. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher. Italy: Avventurosa, Rai Cinema, Ministerio della Cultura (MiC), Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Regione Lazio.
High Life. (2018) Dir. Claire Denis. France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA: Alcatraz Films, Andrew Lauren Productions, Arte France Cinéma.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. (1959) Dir. Alain Resnais. France and Japan: Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Studios.
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006). Dir. Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. Canada, Denmark, Greenland: Igloolik Isuma Productions.
Le Meraviglie (2014). Dir. Alice Rohrwacher. Italy, Switzerland, Germany: Tempesta, Amka Films Productions, Rai Cinema.
Nostalghia. (1983) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Italy and Soviet Union: Rai 2, Sovinfilm.
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk.(2019) Dir.Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. Canada: Kingulliit Productions.
Le Quattro Volte. (2010) Michelangelo Frammartino. Italy, Germany, Switzerland: Vivo Film, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Invisible Film, Ventura Film.
Solaris. (1972) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Soviet Union: Mosfilm, Chetvyortoe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie.
Son of Saul. (2015) Dir. Laszlo Nemes. Hungary: Laokoon Filmgroup, Hungarian National Film Fund, Sam Spiegel International Film Lab.
Stalker. (1979) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Soviet Union: Mosfilm, Chetvyortoe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie.