Accidental Agents - Ecological Politics Beyond the Human

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bruno Latour: “We Have to Agree to Talk About War”
Horizon 1. Antagonistic Alliances
2. Bernard Stiegler: Deciding on the Accident
Horizon 2. At the Speed of the Digital Algorithm
3. Catherine Malabou: “There Is Nothing Beforehand”
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Martin Crowley is professor of modern French thought and culture at the University of Cambridge, where he is also Anthony L. Lyster Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Queens’ College. He serves as general editor of the journal French Studies.

Summary

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Crowley, Crowley Martin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780231204033
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20403-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; NATURE / Animal Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy