Posthumanisms

I was influenced by Science and Technology Studies (STS) early in my academic career, and particularly Actor Network Theory (ANT), which I consider to be my early forays into forms of posthumanism. As our AI-infused world becomes more complexly saturated with machine-made signs, agents and objects, and our assumed ontologies are up for negotiation, I consider posthumanisms as increasingly important means for critical and ethical analysis and for speculating about our emerging world.

Robinson, B., & Leander, K. (2025) PDF. ‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2527920

Burriss, S. & Leander, K. M. (2024) PDFCritical%20Posthumanist.pdf). Critical posthumanist literacy: Building theory for reading, writing, and living ethically with everyday artificial intelligence. Reading Research Quarterly, 59(4), 560-569. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.565

Leander, K. M. & Burriss, S. (2020) PDF. Critical literacy for a posthuman world: When people read, and become, with machines. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12924

Leander, K. M., Aziz, S., Botzakis, S, Ehret, C., Landry, D., & Rowsell, J. (2017) PDF. Readings and experiences of multimodality. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 66(1), 95-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/2381336917719247

Boldt, G. & Leander, K. M. (2017) PDF. Becoming through “the break”: A post-human account of a child’s play. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17, 409-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798417712104

Leander, K. M. & Rowe, D. W. (2006) PDF. Mapping literacy spaces in motion: A rhizomatic analysis of a classroom literacy performance. Reading Research Quarterly 41, 428-460. https://doi.org/10.1598/rrq.41.4.2

Leander, K. M. & Lovvorn, J. (2006) PDF. Literacy networks: Following the circulation of texts, bodies, and objects in the schooling and online gaming of one youth. Cognition & Instruction 24(3), 291-340. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci2403_1