Avatar bodies : a tantra for posthumanism / Ann Weinstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstone, Ann.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 10.

Electronic mediations ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Human body (Philosophy).

Humanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, and she proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other will we truly become posthuman.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Pleasure Ψ; Ψ Every Relation but One: Part I; Ψ (Post)Humanism Ψ; Suspension; Ψ Deconstruction and Posthumanism? Ψ; Nonphilosophy Ψ; Ψ Tidal Kneeplay Ψ; Deleuze and Derrida: You Are Other Ψ; Ψ To Have; To Belong; Fiora Raggi Kneeplay; Tantra for Posthumanism Ψ; Ψ Speaking of Assimilation Ψ; Avatar Bodies Ψ; Ψ First City Kneeplay; Insect Threads Ψ; Case Ψ; Ψ Insects and Buddhists Ψ; Ψ The Insect Self; The Insect Yogi Ψ; Ψ Knowing, Caring; Second City Kneeplay; Ψ Sorcerer Series I: The Island Sorcerer (An Introduction) Ψ; Ψ Some Celibate Erotics; Ψ Vira Action Ψ

Ψ The Wasp and the OrchidΨ Sorcerer Series II: The Yogi Sorcerer Ψ; Ψ Sex Scene; Becoming Woman, Becoming Yogini; Ψ English Tantra or the Imperceptible Man; ΨΨ Vira Bhava Kneeplay; Sorcerer Series III: Rheya; Ψ Sorcerer Series IV: The Miracle of the Rogue; Ψ Heroes of Difference; Third City Kneeplay: The Wasp and the Orchid Cross a Letter Ψ; Emanation/Expression Ψ; Three Bodies Ψ; Three Bodies: Exposition in Preparation for the Avatar Body Ψ; Ψ Avatar and Expression; Ψ The Difference Difference; Ψ Avatar Bodies, an Invitation Ψ; Ψ Itara and Avatāra; Tantric Bodies; Fourth City Kneeplay

Eating, Well . . .ΨΨ Eating Animals; Vegetarians, Brahmins Ψ; Tantra's Third Way; The Responsibility of the (Postdeconstructive) Subject Ψ; Love and Justice; Experience; Intuition, Perhaps; A Tantra for Posthumanism Ψ; Ψ Fifth City Kneeplay: Solaris in Your Eyes; Ψ Epistlirium; Every Relation but One: Part II Ψ; Ψ Hard to Say; Ψ The Postal Age ΨΨ; Ψ (Post) Heroism Ψ; Ψ Post Heroism Ψ; Post Ψ Post; Ψ The Sacrificial Structure of the Post; Fire; ))) Water; Flesh; Who?; E-Mail Madra Ψ; Chance; Ψ Postscript; Works Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).

Other Format:

Print version: Weinstone, Ann. Avatar bodies.

ISBN:

0-8166-9479-6

OCLC:

476095494