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This volume focuses on the most urgent themes in contemporary cultural theory, namely ecology, the posthuman, and the rise of the digital in a globally interlinked world. Contributions by the most prominent voices in the field provide up-to-date and accessible introductions to complex theories.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Nature, and After... Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn / Part I: After Matter / 2. Information and Thought, Michel Serres / 3. Die Natur ist nur Einmal da, Francoise Balibar / 4. Generic Mediality, Post-Alphabetical?, Vera Buhlmann / 5. The Nature of Ideas: On Stones, Feelings and the Ecology of Form, Rick Dolphijn / Part II: After Machines / 6. Media Entangled Phenomenology, Mark Hansen / 7. On Reason and Spectral Machines: Robert Brandom and Bounded Posthumanism, David Roden / 8. Circuits of Desire: Cybernetics and the Post-natural According to Lyotard and Stiegler, Ashley Woodward / 9. History as an Ecological Niche: Beyond Benjamin's Nature, Damiano Roberi / 10. Individuation, Cosmogenesis and Technology: Sri Aurobindo and Gilbert Simondon, Debashish Banerji / Part III: After Man / 11. Being without Life: On the Trace of Organic Chauvinism with Derrida and DeLanda, Richard Iveseon / 12. Returning to Text: Deconstructive Paradigms and Posthumanism, Danielle Sands / 13. Primary and Secondary
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University.Her most recent books are : Posthuman Knowledge (Polity, 2019), The Posthuman Glossary (coedited with M Hlavajova, Bloomsbury 2018), Posthuman Ecologies (coedited with S. Bignall, Rowman &Littlefield 2019) and Conflicting Humanities (coedited with P Gilroy, Bloomsbury 2016). Amy K.S. Chan is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
Zusammenfassung
This volume focuses on the most urgent themes in contemporary cultural theory, namely ecology, the posthuman, and the rise of the digital in a globally interlinked world. Contributions by the most prominent voices in the field provide up-to-date and accessible introductions to complex theories.
