Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art : : Towards Theory and Practice.

• Superior document: Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien Zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt Series ; v.11
• Author: Karpouzou, Peggy.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zampaki, Nikoleta.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien Zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)

The proposed 'symbiotic turn' reflects on the human kind's future and defamiliarizes the mainstream narratives of humanity so it could be better understood in how it is constructed, performed, and protected.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Looking through the Symbiotic Lens -- "We Are The Earth": Posthumanist Realizations in the Era of the Anthropocene -- Introduction: Towards a Symbiosis of Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities or Paving Narratives for the Symbiocene -- Symbiosis, the Gaia Hypothesis and Life -- Symbiosis, Agency and Subjectivity -- Symbiosis, Humanities and Citizenship -- PART I Framing the Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies -- Somatizing Alterity: Technology and Hybridization in the Post-Human Era -- The Connective and Conjugative Value of the Technosphere -- The Nature of Techno-Poiesis -- Téchne Acts as a Virus -- The Process of Somatization -- In Search of Artificial Intelligence -- Rethinking "Queer Kin Groups": Cyborgs, Animals, and Machines -- The Rise of Robot Rights -- The Posthuman Turn -- The Problem with Queer Kin Groups: The Rise of Robots and the Decline of Animals -- The Fictional Origins of AI and Robotics -- How to Say It? Symbiosis as Inter-Ship -- Pre-lude -- From Pre-Positions to Eco -- Critique of Post- as Loss, of Trans- as Indifference -- Live Inter-Ship: Sym-Biosis -- Re-thinking Small Words -- Symbiotic Citizenship in Posthuman Urban Ecosystems: Smart Biocities in Speculative Fiction -- From the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene: Towards Symbiotic Citizenship -- The 'Smart' Narrative of the City as an Urban Ecosystem: Smart Biocities -- Imagining Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Symbiomimicry -- Ensuring Unplugged Spaces and Connection with Nature in Smart Biocities -- Envisioning Biodiversity and Multispecies Citizenship77: Symbiogenesis and Symbiocracy -- PART II Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Literature and Art -- Cracking Open: Ecological Communication in Richard Powers' The Overstory -- Animacy and Animism -- The Overture of The Overstory -- Involutionary Momentums -- Cracking Open.

Posthuman Subjects in Rosa Montero's Los tiempos del odio -- Cyber body as Medium of Art. The Case of Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas -- Introduction -- Neil Harbisson -- Moon Ribas -- Medium of Cyborg Art - Cyborg Body: Postmedial Body -- Conclusions. Neuroscience in Cyborg Artistic Practice -- Folded Tactility: Tracing Metabolic Artistic Practices in Contemporary Sculpture -- Geomancy vs Technomancy: Resonance, Divination and Gilbert Simondon's Thought -- Echealogy -- Echealogy and Technocapital -- Technocapital, Technomancy, Geomancy -- Simondon's Articulation of the Problem -- PART III Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Continental Philosophy -- Animal-Human Differences: The Deconstructive Force of Posthumanism -- Posthumanism vs Deconstruction? -- The Reduction of Deconstruction -- Multiple Differences: A Human and Animal Relation -- A Deconstructive Neologism -- Deleuzian Cosmopolitanism: From the Capitalist Axiomatic to the "Chaosmocene" -- Chaosmos -- Assemblages and Their Two Planes -- The Axiomatic of Capitalism -- A Parrhesiastic Cosmopolitanism? -- The Chaosmocene -- A Posthumanist Truly Back to the Things Themselves: Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Phenomenology and Literary Language -- Introduction: Embodied Phenomenology and Posthumanism -- Embodied Phenomenology's Dialogue with the World: The Invisible of the Visible -- Embodiment's Co-birthing with the World and Literary Language's Expressiveness -- The Things of the World as Interlocutors -- Embodied Phenomenology Is Inseparably Interwoven with Poetic Literary Language -- Eco-Phenomenology in the Dark -- Nietzsche Apologizes for the Weather: A Storm Chaser's Report -- The Ravages of Human-All-Too-Human Recklessness -- Chasing Down the Reality Principle -- Exposure and Retaliation -- Originary Unbelonging: The Returns of AIDS -- Notes on Contributors.