This special edition of the Journal of Art and Communication questions what it means to be more than human in a post anthropocentric world, encouraging relationships with non-human entities through visual practice.

Transformations, mutations and technological extensions to the human body have been extensively illustrated throughout history. Speculative scenarios have masked, bodied, morphed, and conceptualized the human as an ontological hybrid of man-animal-machine. This issue explores how anthropocentric notions of the human can be re-addressed through critical posthuman art, incorporating new ways to envision bodies by communicating the non-human (multi-species) and artificial entities (machines, AI), expressing a new relational coexistence.

Posthuman art can be understood as a techno - aesthetic vision for a future in which we are forced to redesign and extend our existence for an uninhabitable earth. On the other hand, critical posthuman art represents a mix of generalized fear of our own anthropogenic legacy, while at the same time implying a sense of hope in technology and multispecies coexistence to solve the profound challenges we are facing.

This issue seeks contributions that rethink the human condition through a technological and multispecies lens. Art is used as a tool to envision, critique and challenge anthropocentric futures by revisiting human and non-human corporeality. The issue aims to explore a visual language for post anthropocentric futures, speculating symbiotic ways of for living in alternative realities, a damaged planet and for multiplanetary co-existence.