CONTENTS: Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini – The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando – From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori – Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit, D. Sisto – The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino, A. Lanfranchi – Against Animal Rights? A Comment on Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism), by R. Marchesini, A.G. Biuso – Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by F. Ferrando, A. Balzano – Reviews: LNRZ, Golem (2014); LNRZ, Astrogamma (2015), V. Gamberi – Alessandro Ferrante, Pedagogia e orizzonte post-umanista (2014), C. Palmieri – Davide Sisto, Narrare la morte. Dal romanticismo al post-umano (2013), C. Rebuffo – Wajdi Mouawad, Anima (2015), D. Zagaria – Her (2013), film directed by Spike Jonze, A. Lanfranchi e G. Ravanelli.

Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology, R. Marchesini - The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift, F. Ferrando - From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate, A. Ferrante e D. Sartori - Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit, D. Sisto - The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino, A. Lanfranchi - Against Animal Rights? A Comment on Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism), by R. Marchesini, A.G. Biuso - Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by F. Ferrando, A. Balzano - Reviews: LNRZ, Golem (2014); LNRZ, Astrogamma (2015), V. Gamberi - Alessandro Ferrante, Pedagogia e orizzonte post-umanista (2014), C. Palmieri - Davide Sisto, Narrare la morte. Dal romanticismo al post-umano (2013), C. Rebuffo - Wajdi Mouawad, Anima (2015), D. Zagaria - Her (2013), film directed by Spike Jonze, A. Lanfranchi e G. Ravanelli.

The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the “posthuman” umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS. EDITORIAL: Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories, Serenella Iovino, Roberto Marchesini, Eleonora Adorni - INTRODUCTION: Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism, Serenella Iovino - STUDIES AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS: From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim, Serpil Oppermann - Threatening Animals?, Heather I. Sullivan - The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley's Creature, Margarita Carretero González - Gadda's Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household, Deborah Amberson, Elena Past - Posthuman Spaces of Relation: Literary Responses to the Species Boundary in Primate Literature, Diana Villanueva Romero - COMMENTS, DEBATES, REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS: Can the Humanities Become Post-human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti ,Cosetta Veronese - REVIEWS

Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism is a peer-refereed journal of trans-anthropocentric ethics and related inquires. The main aim of the journal is to create a professional interdisciplinary forum in Europe to discuss moral and scientific issues that concern the increasing need of going beyond narrow anthropocentric paradigms in all fields of knowledge. The journal accepts submissions on all topics which promote European research adopting a non-anthropocentric ethical perspective on both interspecific and intraspecific relationships between all life species – humans included – and between these and the abiotic environment.

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be humanÑand thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of EcuadorÕs Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worldÕs most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting directionÐone that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral responsibility to those whose evolutionary unfolding and very future we threaten. This volume is an examination of the relationship between conservation and the social sciences, particularly anthropology. It calls for increased collaboration between anthropologists, conservationists and environmental scientists, and advocates for a shift towards an environmentally focused perspective that embraces not only cultural values and human rights, but also the intrinsic value and rights to life of nonhuman species. This book demonstrates that cultural and biological diversity are intimately interlinked, and equally threatened by the industrialism that endangers the planet's life-giving processes. The consideration of ecological data, as well as an expansion of ethics that embraces more than one species, is essential to a well-rounded understanding of the connections between human behavior and environmental wellbeing. This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable insight into how innovative and intensive new interdisciplinary approaches, questions, ethics and subject pools can close the gap between culture and conservation.