Publication alert: "Navigating the Posthuman Turn in Computing and Design: A Posthuman Vocabulary"

In this paper, Çağdaş collaborates with University of Toronto Professor Priyank Chandra to examine how the concept of the posthuman is articulated within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) database. Drawing on a survey of 151 design papers published in ACM venues up to September 2024, they explore how posthumanism is being operationalized in computing and design scholarship. Their findings suggest that research engaging with posthumanism is shaping an emerging field of posthuman design.

The authors argue that the posthuman turn in computing and design can be understood in three phases: early encounters with posthumanist ideas, the integration of posthuman concepts, and their transformation into a material-discursive practice. To support and advance this third phase, they propose a posthuman vocabulary — a conceptual framework of five guiding design principles: post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, post-dualism, post-Enlightenment, and post-technologism.

The article is open access and available for download at https://doi.org/10.1145/3715335.3735487.

Navigating the Posthuman Turn in Computing and Design: A Posthuman Vocabulary