Posthumous Life : : Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman /

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

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 ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Nicole,
Beckman, Frida,
Colebrook, Claire,
Hekman, Susan,
Hird, Myra J.,
Hunt, Alastair,
Lippit, Akira Mizuta,
Morton, Timothy,
Nealon, Jeffrey T.,
Parisi, Luciana,
Protevi, John,
Saldanha, Arun,
Stengers, Isabelle,
Thacker, Eugene,
Weinstein, Jami,
Wolfe, Cary,
HerausgeberIn:
Colebrook, Claire,
Weinstein, Jami,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Critical Life Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of 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

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