Life in the Posthuman Condition / edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audrone Žukauskaite.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilmer, S. E., editor.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

This collection reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals and the life of inorganic objects.<br><br>The contributors, who include prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists ask a wide range of questions including: what new forms of subjection can we see with the return of the 'Anthropos'?, what can animals teach us in the Anthropocene?, can we reconstruct the perceptual world of animals and take a look into their 'subjectivity'?, what happens to inorganic matter (waste or digital objects) when no longer used by any subject and can we think about inorganic matter in terms of subjective self-awareness?<br><br>The first section, Life Beyond the Anthropocene, critically questions Anthropocene theory and outlines alternative scenarios, such as Gaia theory or post-Anthropocene forms of life on Earth and other planets, as well as new forms of subjectivity. The second part, Human and Non-Human Interactions, investigates the obscure boundary, between life and non-life, and between human and non-human animal life forms. The third part, Forms of Life and New Ontologies, concentrates on new ontologies and discusses life in terms of vitalism, new materialism, movement, form-taking activity and plasticity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Forms of Life in the Posthuman Condition: An Introduction

Part I: Life Beyond the Anthropocene

1. Anthropocene Desperation in Gaian Context

2. Making Worlds Beyond Human Scale and Perspective

3. For Whom is Apocalypse a New Idea?: Thoughts on Staging the End

4. Phenomenology of Waste in the Anthropocene

5. Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence

Part II: Human and Non-Human Interactions

6. On the Punctuation of Organisms: The Case of Helmuth Plessner

7. Eco-Translation and Interspecies Communication in the Anthropocene

8. On Zoē and Spider Life: Studio Tomás Saraceno's Working Objects in the Critical Posthumanities

9. The Beaver, a Partisan Fighting for the Survival of the Planet

Part III: Forms of Life and New Ontologies

10. Jagged Ontologies in The Anthropocene, or, The Five Cs

11. Materialism, the Spiritual and the Scalar

12. What's the Matter with Life?

13. Forms of Life: Simondon, Ruyer, Malabou

14. Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781399505307

1399505300

9781399505291

1399505297

OCLC:

1366283198