Posthumous Life : Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman / Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colebrook, Claire.

Weinstein, Jami.

Series:

Critical life studies.

Critical Life Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Human beings--Forecasting.

Human beings.

Evolution (Biology)--Forecasting.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Postscript On the Posthuman

Introduction: Critical Life Studies and the Problems of Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life

I. Posthuman Vestiges

1. Pre- and Posthuman Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Animal-Human Relations

2. Posthumanism and Narrativity: Beginning Again with Arendt, Derrida, and Deleuze

3. Subject Matters

II. Organic Rites

4. Therefore, The Animal That Saw Derrida

5. The Plant and the Sovereign: Plant and Animal Life in Derrida

6. Of Ecology, Immunity, and Islands: The Lost Maples of Big Bend

III. Inorganic Rites

7. After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects

8. Nonpersons

9. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political Physiology

10. Geophilosophy, Geocommunism: Is There Life after Man?

IV. Posthumous Life

11. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic

12. Spectral Life: The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction

13. Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-To-Life in Schopenhauer

14. Thinking Life: The Problem Has Changed

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Jul 2017)

ISBN:

9780231172141

0231172141

OCLC:

968246474