169501 20260302165029.0 doi 10.12795/REN.2025.i29.5 sideral 148422 ART-2025-148422 eng Peinado Abarrio, Rubén Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8438-2637 Critical perspectives on the already posthuman world 2025 The 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. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Chapman, Ana 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 29 (2025), 6 Rev. estud. norteam. Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 1133-309X 148177 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169501/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1682796 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/169501/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:169501 articulos driver 2026-03-02-14:47:57 ARTICLE