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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. Following on from a questioning of the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, essay...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Critical life studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface : postscript on the posthuman
- Introduction : critical life studies and the problems of inhuman rites and posthumous life / Jami Weinstein and Claire Colebrook
- I. Posthuman vestiges. Pre- and posthuman animals : the limits and possibilities of animal-human relations / Nicole Anderson
- Posthumanism and narrativity : beginning again with Arendt, Derrida, and Deleuze / Frida Beckman
- Subject matters / Susan Hekman
- II. Organic rites. Therefore, the animal that saw Derrida / Akira Mizuta Lippit
- The plant and the sovereign : plant and animal life in Derrida / Jeffrey T. Nealon
- Of ecology, immunity, and islands : the lost maples of Big Bend / Cary Wolfe
- III. Inorganic rites. After nature : the dynamic automation of technical objects / Luciana Parisi
- Nonpersons / Alastair Hunt
- Supra- and subpersonal registers of political physiology / John Protevi
- Geophilosophy, geocommunism : is there life after man? / Arun Saldanha
- IV. Posthumous life. Proliferation, extinction, and an anthropocene aesthetic / Myra J. Hird
- Spectral life : the uncanny valley is in fact a gigantic plain, stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction / Timothy Morton
- Darklife : negation, nothingness, and the will-to-life in Schopenhauer / Eugene Thacker
- Thinking life : the problem has changed / Isabelle Stengers.