Intra/Sections - Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that 'we' do not only act in interpersonal social and political relationships, but that non-human forms of life and relationships must also be taken into account in the critical analysis of our present. In light of that realization, this volume opens the question of the Menge (multitude, crowd) towards a post-anthropocentric perspective on multiplicity. Based on speculative readings of works by K. Barad, M. de la Cadena, and C. Vicuña, the essays illuminate how a human-and-more-than-human intra/sectional approach can help deconstruct the western hegemonic framework in contemporary cultural thinking from a transdisciplinary perspective.

About the author

Jenny Haase is Professor of French- and Spanish-Language Literatures at Potsdam University, Germany.
Kathrin Thiele is Professor of Gender, Culture & Ecologies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is also the director of the Graduate Gender Programme at the same university and of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies.

Summary

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that ‘we’ do not only act in interpersonal social and political relationships, but that non-human forms of life and relationships must also be taken into account in the critical analysis of our present. In light of that realization, this volume opens the question of the Menge (multitude, crowd) towards a post-anthropocentric perspective on multiplicity. Based on speculative readings of works by K. Barad, M. de la Cadena, and C. Vicuña, the essays illuminate how a human-and-more-than-human intra/sectional approach can help deconstruct the western hegemonic framework in contemporary cultural thinking from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jenny Haase (Editor), Kathrin Thiele (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Fink
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2025
• EAN: 9783770567348
• ISBN: 978-3-7705-6734-8
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 15 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 407 g
• Illustrations: 10 Farbabb., 4 SW-Abb.
• Series: Dispositiv der Menge
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur, Anthropologie, Poetik, Kunst, Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft, art, Literature, Feminist, feministisch, Vielheit, Anthropology, Menge, auseinandersetzen, Poetics, Vicuna, Vicuña, Schnittmengen, Barad, Multiplizität, Cadena