{"product_id":"human-being-devin-proctor-9781643151038","title":"Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin--a technologically-mediated community of practice whose members identify as other-than-human--breaking down barriers of identity and calling into question assumptions about what it means to be a human. Based on a decade of ethnographic research, \u003ci\u003eHuman* Being\u003c\/i\u003e examines Otherkin engagement with the techno-virtuality afforded by the internet--through chat forums, personal blogs, 3D virtual worlds, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Discord, TikTok, and Reddit--troubling conventional notions about our relationships with the virtual and our understandings of the Self. The Otherkin represent a larger shift in body identity, shown by increasing numbers of people identifying as trans, nonbinary, fluid, and neurodiverse; bodies open to nuance, complication, and multiplicity. Devin Proctor closely examines internal community debates about the limits of non-human identity, avatar creation practices in virtual worlds to approximate inner realities, and the policing of identity constructs toward a stable definition of the phenomenon. However anomalistic, even fantastical they may seem, the Otherkin offer a window into our own complex notions of bodies, Selves, and technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Devin Proctor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643151037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643151038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lever Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Devin Proctor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801147093247,"sku":"9781643151038","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/human-being-devin-proctor-9781643151038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}