What Is Posthumanism?

Name: What Is Posthumanism?
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ISBN: 9780816666157

ISBN-10: 0816666156

ISBN-13: 9780816666157

Edition: 2009

Authors: Cary Wolfe

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Branka Arsi is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY. Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.Cary Wolfe is chair and the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor in the Department of English at Rice University. His books include What Is Posthumanism?



Acknowledgments


Introduction What Is Posthumanism?



Theories, Disciplines, Ethics



Meaning and Event; or, Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Reconstruction"



Language, Representation, and Species


Cognitive Science versus Deconstruction



Flesh and Finitude


Bioethics and the Philosophy of the Living



"Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities



Learning from Temple Grandin


Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject



Media, Culture, Practices



From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies


The Animal Question in Contemporary Art



When You Can't Believe Your Eyes (or Voice)


Dancer in the Dark



Lose the Building


Form and System in Contemporary Architecture



Emerson's Romanticism, Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity



The Idea of Observation at Key West


Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form beyond Formalism



The Digital, the Analog, and the Spectral


Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts


Notes


Publication History


Index