ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to contextualize the “Un(human)/Monster” as a posthuman figuration in Dibakar Banerjee’s short film “Monster.” “Monster” is the third segment in a four-part cinematic florilegium, Ghost Stories (2020), which is streaming on Netflix. The chapter situates Simon C. Estok’s concept of “ecophobia,” while reconfiguring modes of becoming “Human” and “Un(human)/Monster” in the posthumanist discourse. Further, the chapter backgrounds Rosi Braidotti’s theorization on the politics of otherness to explicate the collective anxiety elicited by the “monster” in considering the anthropocentric enactments of the “Human” as a Humanist subject in action. In doing so, the chapter foregrounds an affirmative invocation of hope in Banerjee’s posthuman horror(scape), emphasizing the need to speculate about sustainable futures and adopting an inter-relational approach to our collective “now.”
