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In Don DeLillo’s latest novel, Zero K (2016) , the question that is ultimately posed, is ‘... what happens to a single human body when the forces of death and life join?’ – thus, implying a radical rethinking of the dominant, familiar humanist account of who ‘we’ are as human beings and who we may be as immortal beings. The aim of this article is to read DeLillo’s (2016) Zero K within the framework of posthumanism, specifically focusing on the following central aspects of the novel: the concept of the posthuman and the role of the human body; the relationship between the self, the body and language; death and the challenges of posthumanism; and the relationship between ways of seeing, art and death. The starting point of this study is to explore how literature, particularly fiction, creates a richer and more complex notion of the contexts and issues arising from the idea of the posthuman and/or new human, following Nayar’s (2014) statement that literary texts:

‘Why not follow our words bodily into the future tense?’: Life, death and posthuman bodies in Don DeLillo’s Zero K