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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.
List of contents
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 Nature: The Role of Indeterminacy in Spinoza and Bartleby, Christopher Thomas / Index
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Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn
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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.
