Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Anxious Flesh 1
5. Part I: Copenhagen and Paris, circa 1889: Economies of Excess
6. 1 Posthumanism and Gender, or the Fall Back into Nature 55
7. 2 Death and Community, or Metaphors and Materiality 92
8. Part II: Munich and Paris, 1918–1943: Encounters with Fascism
9. 3 Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal 127
10. 4 Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness 170
11. 5 Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre? 204
12. 6 Where Does the Body End? Artaud’s Materialsymbolic Theatre 235
13. Conclusion 280
14. Bibliography 289
15. Index 312