Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Postscript On the Posthuman ix
4. Introduction: Critical Life Studies and the Problems of Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life 1
5. I. Posthuman Vestiges
6. 1. Pre- and Posthuman Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Animal-Human Relations 17
7. 2. Posthumanism and Narrativity: Beginning Again with Arendt, Derrida, and Deleuze 43
8. 3. Subject Matters 65
9. II. Organic Rites
10. 4. Therefore, The Animal That Saw Derrida 87
11. 5. The Plant and the Sovereign: Plant and Animal Life in Derrida 105
12. 6. Of Ecology, Immunity, and Islands: The Lost Maples of Big Bend 137
13. III. Inorganic Rites
14. 7. After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects 155
15. 8. Nonpersons 179
16. 9. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political Physiology 211
17. 10. Geophilosophy, Geocommunism: Is There Life after Man? 225
18. IV. Posthumous Life
19. 11. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic 251
20. 12. Spectral Life: The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction 271
21. 13. Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-To-Life in Schopenhauer 295
22. 14. Thinking Life: The Problem Has Changed 325
23. Contributors 339
24. Index 343