Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment: : Steve Fuller: Lexington Books

Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment

Description

With the advent of posthumanism, many scholars in the humanities have started to explore a transforming conception of the “human,” recognizing the limits of “anthropocentricism” both within and between disciplines. Posthumanism may be defined in various ways but the emphasis in this volume is on the idea of constitutive alterity, not simply in the relationship between human beings and other human beings, but in that between human beings and other species and life forms, and between human beings, nature and technology. As a result, Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities. Between them they move not only between disciplines but also between levels of abstraction, from the most general reflection to the most everyday empirical detail. At the same time, all the chapters are case studies, whether they address particular aspects of philosophical or scientific posthumanism, analyze particular pieces of film, theatre, art, literature, or recall for us instructive episodes from social history. The aim at any rate is to give a feel for the range and depth of the posthumanist problematic within the wider context of environmental humanities.

Preface: The Fate of Vitruvian Man
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humanism, Posthumanism, Animals, Earth
Chapter 2: Encounters with Ancestors: Being/s Before the Human
Chapter 3: Spinoza and Renaturalization
Chapter 4: Posthuman, Literary Canon and A Difficult Dialogue: Literature about Environment or Environmental Literature?
Chapter 5: Exiting Human Environment: Metamorphosis in Bilge Karasu's The Garden of Departed Cats
Chapter 6: Voice(s): Ontological Pluralism in Contemporary Environmental Poetics
Chapter 7: Canine Ecology, Spatial Politics, and the Annihilation of Istanbul's Dogs in the Last Decades of the Ottoman Empire
Chapter 8: Flânerie Beyond the City: Urban Mobility and Nature Encounters in Late Ottoman Istanbul via Servet-i Fünûn Narratives
Chapter 9: Singing the Human Away: Manifestations of the Posthuman in Music
Chapter 10: An Essay for the Living in a Time of Extinction
Chapter 11: Mothering the Mother: Africanfuturist Time-Images in Wanuri Kahiu's Pumzi
Chapter 12: (Non/Post) Human: Body, Technology, Environment/Phases of Matter, De
Humani Corporis Fabrica
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