The nonhuman turn / Richard Grusin, editor, Center for 21st Century Studies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grusin, Richard A., editor.

Series:

21st Century studies

21st century studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panpsychism--Congresses.

Panpsychism.

Consciousness--Congresses.

Consciousness.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages).

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize-and therefore consolidate-a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, understood by contributors in a variety of ways-in terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, materiality, technologies, and organic and geophysical systems. The nonhuman turn in twenty-first-century studies can be traced to multiple intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the twentieth century: actor-network theory, affect theory, animal studies, assemblage theory, cognitive sciences, new materialism, new media theory, speculative realism, and systems theory. Unlike the posthunian turn, the nonhuman turn does not make a claim about teleology or progress in which we begin with the human and see a transformation from the human to the posthuman. Rather, the nonhuman turn insists (paraphrasing Bruno Latour) that "we have never been human," that the human has always coevolved, coexisted, or collaborated with the nonhuman-and that the human is identified precisely by this indistinction from the nonhuman. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Supernormal Animal / Brian Massumi Massumi, Brian 1

2 Consequences of Panpsychism / Steven Shaviro Shaviro, Steven 19

3 Artfulness / Erin Manning Manning, Erin 45

4 The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry / Ian Bogost Bogost, Ian 81

5 Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the Wild / Mark B. N. Hansen Hansen, Mark B. N. 101

6 Crisis, Crisis, Crisis; or, The Temporality of Networks / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong 139

7 They Are Here / Timothy Morton Morton, Timothy 167

8 Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New Materialism / Rebekah Sheldon Sheldon, Rebekah 193

9 Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented Philosophy / Jane Bennett Bennett, Jane 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Nonhuman turn.

ISBN:

9781452943909

OCLC:

905601218

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.