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Introduction: Posthumanisms Through Deleuze, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) and Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)
1. Posthuman Monism, Vital Neo-Materialisms, Affirmation, Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
2. Deleuzean Traces: The Self of the Polyp, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada)
3. The Art of Good Encounters: Spinoza, Deleuze and Macherey on Moving from Passive to Active Joy, Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
4. Symmetry & Asymmetry in Conceptual and Morphological Formations: The Difference Plant Body Growth Can Make to Human Thought, Karen L. F. Houle (University of Guelph, Canada)
5. Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl’s and Deleuze’s Cosmologies, Alain Beaulieu (Laurentian University, Canada)
6. Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life, Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)
7. Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema, Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
8. ‘Subaltern’ Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence: Enthiran and CHAPPiE, William Brown (Roehampton University, UK)
9. The Biopolitics of Posthumanism in ‘Tears in Rain’, Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside, USA)
10. Dis/abled Reflections on Posthumanism and Biotech, Martin Boucher (Laurentian University, Canada)
11. Becoming-Squid, Becoming-Insect, and the Refrain Of/From Becoming-Imperceptible in Contemporary Science Fiction: Or Scarlett the Post-Human Starlet, and Her ‘All too Human’ Male Counterparts, David H. Fleming (University of Stirling, UK)
12. Deleuze After Afro-Pessimism, Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)
13. Incorporeal Transformations in Truth and Reconciliation: A Posthuman Approach to Transitional Justice, Mickey Vallee (Athabasca University, Canada)
About the author
Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, Canada, where she is also Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute.Terrance H. McDonald is postdoctoral fellow at the Posthumanism Research Network at Brock University, Canada. He is the editor of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, as well as a sessional lecturer in cinema studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. His work appears in Men and Masculinities, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and Symposium, among other venues.
Summary
Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses.
With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies – including Spinoza and Nietzsche – to posthuman thought. As positions that insist, respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism), each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being, thought, experience, and life.
The authors here take examples from a range of different media, including literature and contemporary cinema, featuring films such as Enthiran/The Robot (India, 2010) and CHAPPiE (USA/Mexico, 2015), and new developments in technology and theory. In doing so, they investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics, and social justice.
Countering the dualisms of Cartesian philosophy and flattening the hierarchies imposed by Humanism, From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism launches vital interrogations of established knowledge and sparks the critical reflection necessary for life in the posthuman era.
Foreword
Using up-to-date examples from film, literature, and technology, international scholars explore the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence.
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Emerging from generative precursors of Deleuzian immanence and interconnectivity, this superb collection offers multivalent musings on the theme of posthumanism. Mapping intersecting pathways across philosophy, aesthetics and politics, the essays subvert humanist thinking to reimagine life as an affective force for creative experimentation, diversification and joy.
