Posthumous Life - Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent ¿turns¿ toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Essays examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life.

List of contents

Preface: Postscript on the Posthuman
Introduction: Critical Life Studies and the Problems of Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life, by Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook
Part I. Posthuman Vestiges
1. Pre- and Posthuman Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Animal-Human Relations, by Nicole Anderson
2. Posthumanism and Narrativity: Beginning Again with Arendt, Derrida, and Deleuze, by Frida Beckman
3. Subject Matters, by Susan Hekman
Part II. Organic Rites
4. Therefore, the Animal That Saw Derrida, by Akira Mizuta Lippit
5. The Plant and the Sovereign: Plant and Animal Life in Derrida, by Jeffrey T. Nealon
6. Of Ecology, Immunity, and Islands: The Lost Maples of Big Bend, by Cary Wolfe
Part III. Inorganic Rites
7. After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects, by Luciana Parisi
8. Nonpersons, by Alastair Hunt
9. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political Physiology, by John Protevi
10. Geophilosophy, Geocommunism: Is There Life After Man?, by Arun Saldanha
Part IV. Posthumous Life
11. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic, by Myra J. Hird
12. Spectral Life: The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction, by Timothy Morton
13. Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-to-Life in Schopenhauer, by Eugene Thacker
14. Thinking Life: The Problem Has Changed, by Isabelle Stengers
Index

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Edited by Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook

Summary

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent “turns” toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Essays examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life.

Product details

• Authors: Jami (EDT)/ Colebrook Weinstein, Jami Colebrook Weinstein
• Assisted by: Claire Colebrook (Editor), Colebrook Claire (Editor), Jami Weinstein (Editor), Weinstein Jami (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780231172158
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17215-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Critical Life Studies; Critical Life Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Philosophy of Science, Social forecasting, future studies, Literary theory, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Medieval Western philosophy