Life in the Posthuman Condition : : Critical Responses to the Anthropocene /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 colour illustrations 13 colour illustrations
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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

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