What is posthumanism? / Cary Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Cary.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 8.

Posthumanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism.

Aesthetics.

Deconstruction.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816666140

0816666148

9780816666157

0816666156

OCLC:

351313274

Publisher Number:

99937361253