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Posthumous Life

Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life.
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent “turns” toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Essays examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life.

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Claire Colebrook is professor of English at Penn State University.

Jami Weinstein is associate professor of gender studies at Linköping University.

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Donna V. Jones, author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism and Modernity:
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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June 12, 2017
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9780231544320
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384
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Critical Life Studies
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