What claims the place of the nuclear family in the face of hybrid kinships and social freezing? What could new elective kinships be in times of chatbots and pseudonymisation? Is this the time for surrogate mother tongues and extra-human ­rhetorics of surrogation?   Sophie Lewis claims a gestational ­communism and hunts our grannies. Barbara Vinken ­reflects on spiritual motherhood, Luciana Parisi on ­human automata and gendered proxies. For ­Zuzana Cela, language is a foreign body that can be ­invaginated. Werner Hamacher strolls...

In der Epoche des Klimawandels, in Zeiten, in denen die Lebensweisen, wie wir sie kannten, in die Krise gestürzt sind, fordert uns die Existenz von Subjekten, die der Raublogik der menschlichen Person indifferent gegenüberstehen, dazu auf, unser Verhältnis zur Welt neu zu denken.