Jovana Isevski. She is a PhD research in English at UC Riverside, pursuing a designated emphasis on Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science. She has engaged with ecocriticism, critical Indigenous studies, new materialism, post-humanism, and critical race theory. Thus far, she has been invested in finding ways to dislodge futurity from the predatory capitalist logics rooted in extractivism, scientific reductionism, and (hu-)Man exceptionalism, and center knowledges that are situated, participatory, and embodied. Her dissertation project is taking a slightly different turn and lies at the intersection of three areas—philosophy and politics of the body, medical humanities (neuroscience and epigenetics), and speculative fiction. Inspired by Sylvia Wynter’s notion of the human as a hybrid of bios and logos, it examines how human endocrinology, opioid-reward system in particular, participates in the construction of the symbolic Self. By extension, it also takes the human body as a necessary component for reproducing ideologies. Finally, it tries to locate the possibilities for emancipation not from the body but from the habitual patterns of physiological reactions and therefore destructive modi operandi. Her papers “Digital Shamanism and the Quest for the Human after Homo Oeconomicus” and “Beyond Anthropocene Fiction: Indigenous Futurisms and Epistemologies of Coordination” are expected to be published this calendar year.