Anthropoforming
Reframing Human and Nonhuman Relations in Recent Speculative Fiction
Anthropoforming
Reframing Human and Nonhuman Relations in Recent Speculative Fiction
Description
Anthropoforming: Reframing Human and Nonhuman Relations in Recent Speculative Fiction examines the relations between human and nonhuman subjects in recent literary works through three distinct parts of what the author have called anthropoforming. The first focuses on the relationship between human groups and the geological planet, looking in particular at how the nonconscious planetary has reflexive responses to unrestrained processes of consumption and waste expulsion. The second part moves into physiological connections between human groups and nonhuman inhabitants of the planet and examines how the nonhuman relationships here reshape the way one understands what the human is and how that human relates to a wider world. As these relationships sometimes force actual evolutions, this part of the project investigates how evolution comes about due to a changing relationship first with the planet, then the plant kingdom, and finally with the technological. In the final, third part these are realized as the nonhuman relationship in built and naturally forming ecologies restructure the human relationship to the total planet, seen here as a cognizant entity-a geological consciousness.
Table of Contents
World Building and World Fielding
Stepping into and through Anthropoforming
PART I: PLANETARY THINKING, PLANETARY RETHINKING: A LARGE- SCALE LOOK AT ANTHROPOFORMING
Chapter 1. Wasted and Dead: Body Matters in Gina Ochsner's The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight
Ghost in the Government's Shell: Historical Echoes in a Machinic Assemblage
Consumption, Waste, and the Scat of the Planet
Chapter 2. Waste Conglomerate to “Plastiglomerate”: Orbits of Anthropoformation in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest
Reduction and Consumption
Everywhere, a Wasteland
PART II: EVOLVING AND REVOLVING: PLANET, PLANT, MACHINE
Chapter 3. Backwards Forward: Growing Pains on a Planetary Level
Dropping the Illusion of Anthro-Control
Person Re/Making and the Subverting of Settler Scale
Chapter 4. My Vegetable Cousin: Evolving the People's Presence
Rhizome Thinking and the Wood Wide Web
Master of the Plan(e)t
Chapter 5. Evolving in the Clouds: Technology's “Next Generation”
Transhuman Augmentation and the Art of the Artificial
Built Ecologies and the Birth of Deep Minds
PART III: GEOLOGIC CONSCIOUSNESS: THE TERRACENTRIC
Chapter 6. Battle of the Planets: Terracentricity in Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia
Remembering-and Forgetting-Foucault
Planets in Orbit and Post-Anthrocontrol: Scale, etc.
Chapter 7. Conversations with Old Man Earth: Democratizing Animacy in N.K. Jemisin
Biopoliticking: Old Man Earth, or Anthropos Deformed
Talking [to] Dirt: Anthropos and Terra in Dialogue
CONCLUSION: ASSEMBLAGE REQUIRED
REFERENCES
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216449621 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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