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Digital Wellbeing in the Posthuman Era

Edited by Evi Sampanikou and Evangelia Kavakli

Publication date: December, 2025

Pages: 232

DOI: 10.22618/TP.TT.DWPE.2025.232

eISBN 978-615-7058-04-0             eBook, Open Access


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Preface


Wellbeing and Posthuman Ethics in the Digital Era: An Introduction

   Evi Sampanikou and Evangelia Kavakli


PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL WELLBEING AND THE ARTS


The Posthuman Paradigm-Shift, Beauty, and Art

   Stefan Lorenz Sorgner


Wellbeing: A Philosophical Perspective

   Anna Markopoulou


Wellbeing: Towards the Construction of a Posthuman Self

   Anna Markopoulou and Evi Sampanikou


Visual Arts in the Posthuman Era

   Evi Sampanikou and Anna Markopoulou


Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels. Towards a Posthuman Future?

   Evi Sampanikou


PART II. TECHNOLOGICAL WELLBEING, TRANS- AND POSTHUMANISM, EURO-TRANSHUMANISM: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES


Wellbeing and Mass Cultural Products in the Age of Posthuman

   Panos Kritikos


Stelarc: For a “Quasi-present” Astronaut

   Anna Hatziyiannaki


Posthuman Well-being in Popular Culture: A Semiotic Reading of the Avatar Film Series

   Ioanna-Maria Stamati and Angeliki Kitsiou


Becoming an Eternal Hero: The Monkey King’s Travel through time to the Posthuman Era

   Ioannis Stathoyiannis


PART III. EMBODIED PRACTICES OF WELL BEING AND THE POSTHUMAN 


The Existential and the Ontological: Excess, Indifference and Intelligence

   Stelarc


Well-being

   Jean-Marc Matos


Microhistorical Narratives in the Posthuman Era: the Playful Relationship between Artificial Intelligence Tolls and Archival Material in Film – A Case Study Presentation of the Hybrid Documentary Film «Who was here?» (25’, 2025)

   Evi Stamou


Fashion & Well-being

   Nikolitsa Gourgouli


PART IV. DIGITAL WELLBEING IN THE NEW ERA OF DIGITAL CONVERGENCE: TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY AND A POSTHUMANIST ONTOLOGY


Beyond Use and Design: Reframing Digital Wellbeing in a Relational Ontology

   Paraskevi-Chrisovalantou Zangogianni, Evangelia Kavakli, Evi Sampanikou


Education and Wellbeing: Reclaiming Human Agency

   Evangelia V. Dimaraki


Rethinking Digital Wellbeing: Interactive Art, Data, and Embodied Interfaces

   Dionysios Zamplaras


Beyond Reality: Exploring the Synergy of the Metaverse, Non-Fungible Tokens, and Internet of Things

   Zacharoula Sereti, Emmanouil Mavrikos, George Tsekouras


Conclusion


Contributing Authors

Data sheet

Editor(s)
Evi Sampanikou and Evangelia Kavakli
Imprint
Trivent Transhumanism
Book series
Art and Transhumanism
Volume no.
1
Book series editor(s)
Evi Sampanikou
eISBN
978-615-7058-04-0
Publication date
December, 2025
Page numbers
232

Specific References

What does wellbeing mean in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, immersive media, biotechnology, and digital convergence? And who (or what) is the subject of wellbeing in a posthuman world?

"Digital Wellbeing in the Posthuman Era" rethinks wellbeing beyond traditional human-centered frameworks. The contributions examine the posthuman paradigm shift through aesthetics and ethics, trans- and posthumanist thought, mass culture, and embodied artistic practice. From the work of Stelarc and interactive art to graphic novels, the "Avatar" film series, AI-assisted filmmaking, and the metaverse, the editors and authors of this volume interrogate how technological mediation transforms both individual and collective flourishing. At the same time, the volume advances a critical theory of digital wellbeing grounded in relational ontology and renewed forms of human and posthuman agency.

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