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Posthumanism in Art and Science

A Reader
  • Edited by: Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring groundbreaking theorists as well as innovative, influential artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories in a time of cultural and environmental crises.

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Giovanni Aloi is adjunct associate professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and adjunct faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. His books include Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Columbia, 2018), Why Look at Plants? (2019), and Lucian Freud Herbarium (2019). Aloi is founder and editor of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and coeditor of the University of Minnesota Press series Art After Nature.

Susan McHugh is professor of English at the University of New England. Her books include Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds (2017) and Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction (2019). She is coeditor of Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.

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Cecilia Novero, author of Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art:
Wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and representative of the current international cultural debates about posthumanism, this provocative volume will inspire students, artists, activists, and anyone who is invested in debunking anthropocentrism.

Robert McKay, coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature:
Despite having achieved widespread critical currency, posthumanism is a concept that is used in multifarious ways that might be but are not systematically understood. This first comprehensive anthology on posthumanism and the arts offers a wide-ranging, informative, and authoritative account of posthumanist theory. This is a grand and ambitious intellectual project.

Elaine Gan, director of Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab and coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:
A wonderful and extraordinary curatorial feat that brings together fifty multidisciplinary thinkers and makers who have put forward the boldest, most creative provocations for posthumanist theorizing, writing, and aesthetic practice in the twenty-first century. An essential collection with a new perspective for understanding the work of art in more-than-human worlds.

Bruce Clarke, author of Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems:
Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader covers a wide range of schools of thought. The assembled selections are wildly diverse in terms of artistic medium, national origin, racial composition, sexual orientation, and species identity and interrelations. It captures this theoretical diversity with a guiding interest in the new-materialist wing of posthumanist discourse. Aloi and McHugh curate an effective fusion of critical and visual discourse, with a particular emphasis on human-animal relations.


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Envisioning Posthumanism
Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
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PART I Post-Identity Politics

Becoming an Image (2018)
Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
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Speculative Fabulation and String Figures (2012)
Donna Haraway
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Rosi Braidotti
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The Extended Body (2008)
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
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Francesca Ferrando
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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
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Interview with the artist Skawennati (2019)
Amy Ge
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Edward King and Joanna Page
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Paintings and the Politics of Seeing (2013)
Sunaura Taylor
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William Wegman, Aesthetic Agency, and the Animal in Experimental Video Art (2001)
Susan McHugh
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In It Together (2017)
Susan McHugh
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A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013)
Michael Marder
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Giovanni Aloi, Linda Tegg, Joshi Radin and Brian M. John
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Yvonne Rainer
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PART II Material Dimensions

Materiality and Vulnerability (2018)
Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
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Nandipha Mntambo
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Nicole Shukin
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On Skin and Meat (2010)
Ron Broglio
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James Elkins
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Animal Studies and Art (2015)
Giovanni Aloi
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The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998)
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Tim Ingold
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One Possible Dialogue Between Afrofuturism and the Anthropocene (2013)
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Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies (2016)
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Myra Hird
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On Art and Ecology (2016)
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Timothy Morton
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Infinity, Virtuality, Justice (2012)
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PART III Registering Interconnectedness

Something We Are Responsible To (2016)
Jessica Ullrich
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N. Katherine Hayles
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Chus Martínez
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Ecology, Vitality, and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2017)
Erin Manning
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Lucian Gomoll
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Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex and Nature (2019)
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Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie M. Sprinkle
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Vibrant Matters (2010)
Peter Gratton
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Listening to Cicadas (2013)
Helen Bullard
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Syned Mthatiwa
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Composing the Common World Through Art and Politics (2011)
Bruno Latour
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Force Majeure (2017)
Snæbjörnsdóttir Wilson
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Ken Rinaldo
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PART IV Emerging Ecologies

Black Human Geographies
Betelhem Makonnen
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Organ-Machine Hybrids (2017)
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
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Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone (2015)
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David Jeselit, Catherine Lammert-Beatty, Hal Foster and Mel Y. Chen
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Cynthia E. Milton
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Critical Posthumanisms (2012)
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Allegories and Speculations (2016)
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Mushrooms as Companion Species (2011)
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Jason W. Moore
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Notes from Fields and Forums (2012)
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Louis Bury
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Reflections on Art and Posthumanism
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