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What is posthumanism? /

"What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities - pos...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolfe, Cary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Series:Posthumanities ; 8.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Meaning and event, or, systems theory and "the reconstruction of deconstruction"
  • Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction
  • Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living
  • "Animal studies," disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities
  • Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject
  • From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art
  • When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark
  • Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture
  • Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity
  • The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism
  • The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from My life in the bush of ghosts.