130 Alina PREDA Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania alina.preda@ubbcluj.ro TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES OF EMBODIMENT REFLECTED IN JEANETTE WINTERSON’S FICTIONAL FRAMING OF POSTHUMAN SUBJECTS Recommended Citation: Preda, Alina. “Technological Practices of Embodiment Reflected in Jeanette Winterson’s Fictional Framing of Posthuman Subjects.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 7.1 (2021): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.11.08 Abstract: Focusing on The PowerBook and The Stone Gods, this article explores the ways in which Jeanette Winterson articulates the interconnections between consciousness and memory, delineates their role in identity formation and reveals how posthuman subjects’ practices of embodiment work to undermine both heteronormative and anthropocentric worldviews. The technologically inscribed bodies of the characters portrayed in these two novels, together with Winterson’s rhizomatic conceptualization of space and her vertical figuration of time, allow for the time-travelling endeavours of e-storyteller Ali/x and of Robo-sapiens-cum-Robo-head Spike. Such fictional entities prompt investigations into the essence of social-material encounters, of subject-object interdependence, of matter-energy vitality, of interaction and intra-action, of reflexive thought and of self-configuration. Keywords: consciousness, memory, identity formation, technological practices of embodiment, posthuman subjects. Introduction Since they fundamentally deal with change, post-structural meta-theories of chaos and complexity are among the various theories underpinning different approaches to the study of memory, which refers to the simultaneous storage and manipulation of the information required by complex cognitive processes. Despite their mathematical origins, these transdisciplinary systems theories have increasingly been employed