Postcolonial Posthumanism

Wanuri Kahiu’s "Pumzi" is an Afrofuturist movie, addressing the consequences of climate change and subsequent wars. "Pumzi" disturbs to dream, turning memory into the elixier of future. This volume is dedicated to learning from Pumzi and its protagonist Asha. Solidarity and resistance in the midst of a dystopic technodictatorship plan(t) new futureS, across species and time. This volume’s contributions delve into this topic pillared on concepts such as futureS, hero, dystopia, Afrofuturism, environment and solidarity. In doing so, the volume contributes to contouring the emergent field Postcolonial Posthuman Studies.

Mathematics and Literary Studies engaged in a dialogue? Indeed, this is what this book is all about. It features that both disciplines converse because they can; and they can do so, because they perform both differently and similarly while digging into the gist of all matter. Mathematics operates with metaphors born from real life, because (rather than in spite of) its dedication to reality. Likewise, literature is all but a mere invention. Born from the gist of all matter, it has always been part and parcel thereof. Such fictional in(ter)ventions have become a role model for the study thereof: literary studies. And it is because both mathematics and literary studies speak from the midst of (planetary) worldliness, they happen to overlap. In doing so, the book is an invitation to understand imagination as knowledge; and knowledge as imagination.