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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Life StudiesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231172141
  • 9780231544320
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128
LOC classification:
  • BD450 .P5857 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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