000169501 001__ 169501 000169501 005__ 20260302165029.0 000169501 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.12795/REN.2025.i29.5 000169501 0248_ $$2sideral$$a148422 000169501 037__ $$aART-2025-148422 000169501 041__ $$aeng 000169501 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8438-2637$$aPeinado Abarrio, Rubén$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000169501 245__ $$aCritical perspectives on the already posthuman world 000169501 260__ $$c2025 000169501 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000169501 5203_ $$aThe claim that “we have always been posthuman” has become a commonplace in critical discourse (Braidotti; Hayles; Wolfe). While the distinctive affordances of digital communication and FourthIndustrial-Revolution technologies have intensified the entanglement with the nonhuman, such relationality is hardly unique to the twentyfirst-century subject. At the same time, the reality of the networked self implies the redefinition of the sense of agency as identity and community are increasingly articulated as online performance (Papacharissi). However, the pull of the human is not to be underestimated. The already posthuman self finds expression in imaginaries and institutions of the Anthropocene, and it continues to struggle against deeply ingrained anthropocentric ways of knowing, thinking, and acting. Tracing whether the discourses of this posthuman self materialize as dreamlike utopia or nightmarish dystopia is one of this special section’s central aims. 000169501 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 000169501 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000169501 700__ $$aChapman, Ana 000169501 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000169501 773__ $$g29 (2025), 6$$pRev. estud. norteam.$$tRevista de Estudios Norteamericanos$$x1133-309X 000169501 8564_ $$s148177$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169501/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000169501 8564_ $$s1682796$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169501/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000169501 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:169501$$particulos$$pdriver 000169501 951__ $$a2026-03-02-14:47:57 000169501 980__ $$aARTICLE