ABSTRACT
Literature of disease has long focused on such viral interpolations in socio-political and environmental systems, creating both conspiracy scenarios and alternative realities, the truthfulness of which is only bound to the historical unfolding of the real-life examples. In the face of the current COVID-19 outbreak, we are—again—all full of doubts and questions. Despite the bleak picture at hand, the current situation has once again proven the fact that the world, with all its beings and things, is an entangled mesh. True, the lack of unionised protocols brings about different measures in different geographical settings. And separatory attempts of administrations are required to slow down the pandemic. But one must notice that all the posthuman bodies of this planet are unified and act, ‘only by sitting at home,’ as a whole. As a result, this introduction provides a framework to supplement the theoretical basis of such unification, an idea that is recurring and consistent throughout the chapters. Following a postqualitative approach, Ağın and Horzum follow an implosive methodology inspired by the Harawayan thought and the Baradian concept of entanglement, and thus, in this introduction, they bring together their model-readings of several literary and artistic texts with their personal and political stances as posthumanities scholars. At the end of this introductory chapter, each part and its related chapters are summarised.
