Columbia University Press
Posthumous Life
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Jami Weinstein is associate professor of gender studies at Linköping University.
Reviews
This collection of insightful and comprehensive essays resists the celebratory tone on the question of the posthuman and provides much-needed critical depth and analytic vigor. A necessary and novel contribution to the studies of life and biopolitics.
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.
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Contents
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Preface: Postscript On the Posthuman
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Introduction: Critical Life Studies and the Problems of Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life
1 - I. Posthuman Vestiges
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1. Pre- and Posthuman Animals: The Limits and Possibilities of Animal-Human Relations
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2. Posthumanism and Narrativity: Beginning Again with Arendt, Derrida, and Deleuze
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3. Subject Matters
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4. Therefore, The Animal That Saw Derrida
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5. The Plant and the Sovereign: Plant and Animal Life in Derrida
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6. Of Ecology, Immunity, and Islands: The Lost Maples of Big Bend
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7. After Nature: The Dynamic Automation of Technical Objects
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8. Nonpersons
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9. Supra- and Subpersonal Registers of Political Physiology
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10. Geophilosophy, Geocommunism: Is There Life after Man?
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11. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic
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12. Spectral Life: The Uncanny Valley Is in Fact a Gigantic Plain, Stretching as Far as the Eye Can See in Every Direction
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13. Darklife: Negation, Nothingness, and the Will-To-Life in Schopenhauer
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14. Thinking Life: The Problem Has Changed
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Contributors
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