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. Following on from a questioning of the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, essay...

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Other Authors: Weinstein, Jami (Editor), Colebrook, Claire (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Critical life studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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. Following on from a questioning of the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, essays in this volume question the limits 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxix, 358 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231544320
0231544324
0231172141
9780231172141
023117215X
9780231172158

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