Posthumanism, cyborg, and Iranian digital memory

Posthumanism is an onto-epistemological approach to our contemporary state that is an intensity of amalgam of technologies and organisms. Giving a fundamental definition of the matter of the society, posthumanism decenters humans and rearranges him/her amidst different other forces. There are just different assemblages and entanglements of forces that amplify the contingent matter of existence. Then, the object of the article is a theoretical approach to the posthumanism turn in relation to the digital state as a more intensity of amalgamation of the machine and human so as to analyze the digital memory. Coining concepts to make the possibility of thinking about understanding the contemporary state is one of the most analytical and research necessities about digital and cultural studies of Iran since there is a lack of considerable inquiry and translated literature in this field. Based on the conceptual framework, we take three recent Iranian social and political events such as 25 years of political contracts with China, an epidemic of Covid-19, and the governmental decision to baning the Pfizer vaccine for Iranian people as three analytical cases for studying Iranian digitalized reactions. The implications are the importance of posthumanism turn for identifying recent social transformations in connection with digital technology, digital intelligence, new media, and extensive links of forces. These make different analytic opportunities for interpreting contemporary Iranian society.