Questioning the Human: Posthuman accounts in Popular Culture (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/KLVZ9500
Publication: Volume 3 Issue 4
Excerpt | The onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic—affecting millions around the world directly as an infectious disease and indirectly by taking away their livelihood and/or displacing them in countries like India—has benumbingly flooded us with the deluge of news and data of ever-rising fatalities to the extent that our minds have begun to resist forming a credible vocabulary for conceptualizing and articulating the current crisis. The dogged uncertainty of future as the aftershock of this global health emergency will be looming over our social and economic systems for a considerable period of time to come. Parallel to this ongoing calamity, many cities in India are dealing with natural disasters such as cyclones, forest fires, floods, and recurrent earthquakes. This last Issue of Volume 3 of LLIDS is getting published, albeit behind the schedule, amidst this mayhem, and for this we appreciate the support that we have received from our colleagues and friends—some of whom were hampered by their circumstances but rose to the challenge to extend their helping hand. Even as the crisis keeps all the members, as well as the extended family of LLIDS, isolated in their respective homes, this Issue marks the completion of our three years of publication, and for that our heartfelt gratitude to all and everyone: editorial board members, authors, peer reviewers, interns as well as readers.
Key words | Human Subject, Uncertainty, Anthropocentrism, Cartesian Subject, Enlightenment Philosophy, Postmodernism, Metanarratives, Techno-science, Cyborg
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizan.moquim@vips.edu)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha, and Faizan Moquim. “Questioning the Human: Posthuman accounts in Popular Culture (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 3, no. 4, 10 Jul. 2020, pp. v-ix, https://doi.org/10.71106/KLVZ9500.