Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director, Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. She is the editor of the series Posthuman Practice (Bloomsbury).Drawing inspiration from non-human critters such as coral polyps and an insistent bee, <i>Posthumanist Vulnerability</i> explores what it means to be vulnerable and agentic – transjective – beings, and how they may teach humans ethical lessons in unlearning human exceptionalism. This is a truly wonderful book, full of new, affirmative posthumanist insight.
Nina Lykke, Poet and Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark
Daigle’s <i>Posthumanist Vulnerability</i> is a timely philosophical monograph, highlighting the affirmative potential of multispecies vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. Bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, Deleuzoguattarian thought, and affect theory, Daigle dethrones the human subject and convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability.
Evelien Geerts, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK
A timely dethroning of the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, in this book Christine Daigle highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability.
Posthuman Vulnerability fills a significant theoretical gap - whilst feminism has explored the affirming power of vulnerability, it's been from a very human-centric viewpoint. In posing a feminist and posthuman take on vulnerability, Daigle is bridging traditions in a totally original and much needed way.
Meandering 1: In lieu of a Preface
Introduction: By way of Getting Started
Meandering 2: Land Acknowledgement
Chapter 1: The Transjective—A Posthumanist Material Feminist Ontology
Meandering 3: Charlie and Me
Chapter 2: Our Polyp-Being
Meandering 4: Feeling/Being Out of Place
Chapter 3: Affective Fabric and Collective Agency
Meandering 5: Inoculation
Chapter 4: Of Selves and Agents
Meandering 6: Inosculation
Meandering 7: 4am By the Train Tracks
Chapter 5: Vulnerability
Meandering 8: World in Turmoil
Chapter 6: Manifold Toxicity
Meandering 9: Cohabitating
Chapter 7: Ethical Thriving
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