Life in the Posthuman Condition : Critical Responses to the Anthropocene

Wilmer, S. E. (EDT)/ Žukauskaitė, Audronė (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2023/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399505277
• DDC分類 113.8

Full Description

Investigates forms of life which lack proper conceptualisation in the field of modern philosophy

Engages in recent debates on posthumanism and the Anthropocene
Reconsiders different forms of life, such as post-Anthropocene life, animal life, and life of inorganic objects
Introduces an interdisciplinary approach which brings together contemporary philosophy, cultural and visual studies, posthumanism, media and technology studies, environmental studies and indigenous cosmologies
Outlines new ontologies and engages with new materialism
Features contributions by prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists, including Catherine Malabou, T. J. Demos, Graham Harman, Jussi Parikka and Cary Wolfe

This collection reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals and the life of inorganic objects.

The contributors, who include prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists ask a wide range of questions including: what new forms of subjection can we see with the return of the 'Anthropos'?, what can animals teach us in the Anthropocene?, can we reconstruct the perceptual world of animals and take a look into their 'subjectivity'?, what happens to inorganic matter (waste or digital objects) when no longer used by any subject and can we think about inorganic matter in terms of subjective self-awareness?

The first section, Life Beyond the Anthropocene, critically questions Anthropocene theory and outlines alternative scenarios, such as Gaia theory or post-Anthropocene forms of life on Earth and other planets, as well as new forms of subjectivity. The second part, Human and Non-Human Interactions, investigates the obscure boundary, between life and non-life, and between human and non-human animal life forms. The third part, Forms of Life and New Ontologies, concentrates on new ontologies and discusses life in terms of vitalism, new materialism, movement, form-taking activity and plasticity.

Contents

Forms of Life in the Posthuman Condition: An Introduction, Audronė Žukauskaitė and S. E. Wilmer

Part I: Life Beyond the Anthropocene

1. Anthropocene Desperation in Gaian Context, Bruce Clarke

2. Making Worlds Beyond Human Scale and Perspective, Małgorzata Sugiera

3. For Whom is Apocalypse a New Idea?: Thoughts on Staging the End, Patricia Ybarra

4. Phenomenology of Waste in the Anthropocene, Mintautas Gutauskas

5. Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence, T.J. Demos

Part II: Human and Non-Human Interactions

6. On the Punctuation of Organisms: The Case of Helmuth Plessner, Graham Harman

7. Eco-Translation and Inter-Species Communication in the Anthropocene, by Anna Barcz and Michael Cronin

8. On Zoe and Spider Life: Studio Tomás Saraceno's Working Objects in the Critical Posthumanities, Jussi Parikka

9. The Beaver, a Partisan Fighting for the Survival of the Planet, Agnė Narušytė

Part III: Forms of Life and New Ontologies

10. Jagged Ontologies in The Anthropocene, or, The Five C's, Cary Wolfe

11. Materialism, the Spiritual, and the Scalar, John Ó Maoilearca

12. What's the Matter with Life?, Thomas Nail

13. Forms of Life: Simondon, Ruyer, Malabou, Audronė Žukauskaitė

14. Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips, Catherine Malabou