Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

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 ex...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2017]
Series:Critical Life Studies
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Summary: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. They explore the possibility of theorizing life without assuming it to be either a simple substrate or an always-mediated effect of culture and difference. Posthumous Life provides new ways of thinking about animals, plants, humans, difference, sexuality, race, gender, identity, the earth, and the future
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages)
ISBN:9780231544320
DOI:10.7312/wein17214

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