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The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and anti-humanisms.
Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for post-humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Is the Universe Alive or Dead: The Problem with Ontological Nihilism
1. The Post-Structuralist and Cognitive-Behavioural Origins of Critical Posthumanism
2. Transhumanism: The Post-Biological Ideology of Digital Capitalism
3. Speculative Posthumanism
4. The Libidinal Economy of Nihilist Posthumanism
5. The Culture of Nihilism
6. Indigenous Animism and the Decolonisation of Philosophy
7. The Posthuman Earth
8. Becoming Ecological/Posthumanist
9. Animist Praxis
10 Scientific Realism or Animism: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Anthropocene
11. Ontological Nihilism and the Thanatopolitics
Afterword: On Animism, Metaphysics, and those Tempted to Invoke the Spectre of Romantic Reaction
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