Posthumous Life

Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times:
This splendid collection proposes a site of inquiry—critical life studies—that not only generates unexpected questions but offers invaluable perspectives on many obdurate philosophical topics that currently confront us regarding the posthuman, the inhuman, the inorganic, and the anthropocene. If, as the title of Isabelle Stenger's essay proposes, "Thinking Life: The Problem Has Changed," then these essays consider—in rigorous as well as ludic modes—what it may now mean to think life.

Gregory Seigworth, Millersville University:
This superb book haunts in all of the best and most disquieting ways: memories of a future already lost to ourselves, with writers who illuminate those registers of nonlife and postlife that arise when all of the living-on and living-through of humans has been exhausted or self-extinguished. The chapters serve as a chanting of rites to the nonhuman animal, to plants, to birds, to the inorganic, to the planet, to the ends of stories.