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Posthumanism and Literacy Learning

Roman Bartosch

This chapter critically assesses the potential of posthumanism for educational discussions of literary learning, especially in the context of digitization and literature and media pedagogy. It revisits the notion that posthumanism helps us rethink the porous boundaries between humans, animals and machines, and argues that the current digital transformation of education, by contrast, focused on what critics have described as transhumanisation. It therefore suggests a productive dialogue between both perspectives and argues for the centrality of literary and cultural learning in this regard. Focusing on the pedagogic potentials of novels and internet memes alike, it argues that these media underline the importance of empathetic perspective-taking, reconceptualized as relatability in the English classroom as well as the virtual world of the web.