Marchesini, R. (2023). Posthumanist Manifesto. Lexington.

Abstract

Although it is often frustrating, Roberto Marchesini’s Posthumanist Manifesto makes a number of
valuable contributions to Critical Posthumanist discourse. The extent to which it questions many of
the accepted principles in the discipline renders it a challenging read, but one which should be
rewarding for those scholars who take the time to parse its depths. The verbosity of the whole is
incipiently apparent in its opening, whereupon Marchesini proposes that ‘Hybridization is the
moment of the Appollonian becoming while staying within a Dionysian flow of possibilities and
transitions’ (2). As here, the Manifesto dispels copious amounts of intelligent reflection across its thirty
constituent theses. It rarely takes the time for definition, operating on the assumption that its readers
will be familiar with a broad range of highly technical vocabulary and concepts.