The Fantastic in the Arts: Posthumanism
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Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2022 Spring
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
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Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
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Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring
- How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
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Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring
- Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
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The Modernist Corpse Posthumanism and the Posthumous Erin E. Edwards 2018 Spring
- An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who—and what—counts as human while offering bold insights into the modernist project
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
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Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring
- Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
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Like Clockwork Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall, Editors 2016 Fall
- From Dragon*Con to IBM’s big data and neo-Victorianism to disability studies—the fascinating rise of an international subculture
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Object-Oriented Feminism Katherine Behar, Editor 2016 Fall
- A discipline-expanding book that explores the political and ethical potential of being an object
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The Child to Come Life after the Human Catastrophe Rebekah Sheldon 2016 Fall
- A bold new reading of the child for the twenty-first century, with implications for contemporary environmentalism
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Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall
- Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z
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Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
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Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
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All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall
- A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
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Necromedia Marcel O’Gorman 2015 Spring
- An unusual answer to a common question: Why does technology play such a powerful role in our culture?
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Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring
- Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
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The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
- An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
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Universes without Us Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Matthew A. Taylor 2013 Fall
- Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
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Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall
- The world as we know it has already come to an end
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Cosmic Apprentice Dispatches from the Edges of Science Dorion Sagan 2013 Spring
- A renowned writer takes us on an intellectual thrill ride to challenge scientific and philosophical dogma
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Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall
- Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time
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Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall
- Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell
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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost 2012 Spring
- A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another
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Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall
- A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
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Animal Stories Narrating across Species Lines Susan McHugh 2011 Spring
- How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media—and why it matters
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Junkware Thierry Bardini 2010 Fall
- The essential junkiness of our culture and biology
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Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring
- A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
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What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall
- Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
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The Dada Cyborg Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin Matthew Biro 2009 Spring
- Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art
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Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring
- An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
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The Parasite Michel Serres 2007 Spring
- The foundational work in the area now known as posthuman thought
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The Souls of Cyberfolk Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Thomas Foster 2005 Spring
- Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality