Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei Fernández Santiago, Miriam Critical posthumanism Transhumanism Agential materialism Accountability Poetics of failure Tao Lin Posthumanismo crítico Transhumanismo Materialismo agencial Responsabilidad Poética del fracaso The research underpinning this article was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the University of Zaragoza through the research project "Trauma, Culture and Posthumanity: The Definition of Being in Contemporary North-American Fiction" (FFI2015-63506). Tao Lin’s novel Taipei (2013) can be described as a picture of transhuman existence in the current digital world. However, its poetics of failure does not seem to adjust to the typically utopian visions that have often been related to transhumanism. Instead, the novel’s aesthetic approach resists diverse forms of transhumanist universalism in ways that are closer to the theoretical premises of critical posthumanism and agential materialism. In this article, I analyze Lin’s use of accountable metaphors and poetic failure in Taipei as a means to resist uncritical claims to transhumanist, universalist aesthetics. Taipei (2013), de Tao Lin, podría describirse como un retrato de la existencia transhumana en el mundo digital actual. Sin embargo, su enfoque estético desde la perspectiva de la poética del fracaso no parece ajustarse a las típicas visiones utópicas que se relacionan con el transhumanismo. En vez de eso, dicho enfoque parece dar la impresión de resistir las diversas formas del universalismo transhumanista de un modo que estaría más cercano a las premisas teóricas del posthumanismo crítico y el materialismo agencial. En este artículo analizo el uso narrativo de la metáfora responsable y la poética del fracaso en Taipei como un modo de resistir supuestos complacientes con la estética universalista del transhumanismo. 2021-07-29T10:30:12Z 2021-07-29T10:30:12Z 2021-06-28 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Fernández-Santiago, M. (2021). Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 20-38. DOI: [http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.02] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69977 10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.02 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos