Conclusion

The chapter reflects on how the reimaginings discussed in this book shed new light on the posthuman potentialities embedded in Lewis Carroll's Alice narratives. Through close engagement with critical posthumanist theory, it foregrounds how Carroll's texts and their afterlives on screen offer vital insight into shifting notions of subjectivity, embodiment, relationality, and ethical agency. From Miller's deconstruction of adulthood in the 1960s, to Chabrol's critique of bourgeois ideology, Švankmajer's interrogation of political oppression through in/animacy, Willing's exploration of cognitive capitalism, and Disney's feminist-technological becomings—each chapter contributes to a cartography of posthuman figurations. The diverse figurations discussed collectively prompt a rethinking of the human condition in the context of climate crisis and techno-scientific transformation. Rather than reading these adaptations through fidelity or linear inheritance, this book also proposes a nomadic approach to adaptation: a dynamic, nonlinear, and affirmative unfolding of Carroll's narrative energy into new historical and material contexts. The figure of Alice, in all her multiplicity, remains a privileged site for imagining futures that contest exclusionary humanism and foster interspecies, intergenerational solidarities. In the end, this chapter invites us to revisit the Carrollian stories and inhabit its ethical provocations—as we too remain in flux, becoming.