A Zoology for the Posthuman

What do a chameleon, a flint stone and a mathematical equation have in common? What at first sounds like the beginning of one of these bad jokes is in fact the key question of Benjamin Schaab’s intriguing study. Focusing on the cyborg in all its varied forms and functions, A Zoology for the Posthuman provides concise as well as innovative analyses of films throughout the 20th and 21st century – among them the classic Metropolis, Dr. Strangelove and the recent District 9 –, the sheer depth of which can only be fully understood if the reader achieves what Square in Flatland failed to do: to go upward, not northward in a two-dimensional world (of thought).