Humanimus

David Huebert?s Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book implicates readers in what Dominic Pettman calls the ?humanimalchine,? where modern cyborg bodies are rewired and remixed with mechanical membranes and animal prostheses. Revelling in corporeal excess and industrial abjection, Humanimus fans the ash of the human experiment to see what strange beauty might wilt and whimper there.

AUTHOR

David Huebert

David Huebert’s stories have won the CBC Short Story Prize, the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize, and The Dalhousie Review’s short story contest. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award and published in magazines such as enRoute, Grain, Matrix, and The Puritan. David is the author of the poetry collection We Are No Longer The Smart Kids In Class (Guernica, 2015) and the winner of The Walrus’ 2016 Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, David currently lives in London, Ontario, where he’s completing a PhD and a novel about southwestern Ontario oil.