Life in the Posthuman Condition : : Critical Responses to the Anthropocene / / ed. by S. E. Wilmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Barcz, Anna,; Clarke, Bruce,; Cronin, Michael,; Demos, T. J.,; Gutauskas, Mintautas,; Harman, Graham,; Malabou, Catherine,; Maoilearca, John Ó,; Nail, Thomas,; Narušytė, Agnė,; Parikka, Jussi,; Sugiera, Małgorzata,; Wilmer, S. E.,; Wolfe, Cary,; Ybarra, Patricia,; Žukauskaitė, Audronė Ž,
• HerausgeberIn: Wilmer, S. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 colour illustrations 13 colour illustrations

Investigates forms of life which lack proper conceptualisation in the field of modern philosophyEngages in recent debates on posthumanism and the AnthropoceneReconsiders different forms of life, such as post-Anthropocene life, animal life, and life of inorganic objectsIntroduces an interdisciplinary approach which brings together contemporary philosophy, cultural and visual studies, posthumanism, media and technology studies, environmental studies and indigenous cosmologiesOutlines new ontologies and engages with new materialismFeatures contributions by prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists, including Catherine Malabou, T. J. Demos, Graham Harman, Jussi Parikka and Cary WolfeThis 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.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?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.

Table of 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