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Book SynopsisUncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses. With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies including Spinoza and Nietzsche to posthuman thought. As positions that insist, respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism), each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being, thought, experience, and life. The authors here take examples from a range of different media,
Trade Review[T]he collection offers an important first step in a discourse ripe for theoretical inquiry, namely Deleuze, Guattari and Posthumanism. These theorists should be applauded for their sustained critique of Humanism and Anthropocentrism. * Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge *
A beautiful, ethically nuanced and radically divergent collection of invigorating contributions to the Deleuzio-Guattarian posthuman arena. This volume makes key concepts and applications relevant, sometimes devastatingly so, to the times in which we live, and in ethically living with these times. * Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, ARU, Cambridge, UK *
Emerging from generative precursors of Deleuzian immanence and interconnectivity, this superb collection offers multivalent musings on the theme of posthumanism. Mapping intersecting pathways across philosophy, aesthetics and politics, the essays subvert humanist thinking to reimagine life as an affective force for creative experimentation, diversification and joy. * Simone Bignall, Research Professor, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Posthumanisms Through Deleuze,
Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) and Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada) 1. Posthuman Monism, Vital Neo-Materialisms, Affirmation,
Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) 2. Deleuzean Traces: The Self of the Polyp,
Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) 3. The Art of Good Encounters: Spinoza, Deleuze and Macherey on Moving from Passive to Active Joy,
Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) 4. Symmetry & Asymmetry in Conceptual and Morphological Formations: The Difference Plant Body Growth Can Make to Human Thought,
Karen L. F. Houle (University of Guelph, Canada) 5. Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl’s and Deleuze’s Cosmologies,
Alain Beaulieu (Laurentian University, Canada) 6. Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life,
Terrance H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada) 7. Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema,
Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 8. ‘Subaltern’ Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence:
Enthiran and
CHAPPiE,
William Brown (Roehampton University, UK) 9. The Biopolitics of Posthumanism in ‘Tears in Rain’,
Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside, USA) 10. Dis/abled Reflections on Posthumanism and Biotech,
Martin Boucher (Laurentian University, Canada) 11. Becoming-Squid, Becoming-Insect, and the Refrain Of/From Becoming-Imperceptible in Contemporary Science Fiction: Or Scarlett the Post-Human Starlet, and Her ‘All too Human’ Male Counterparts,
David H. Fleming (University of Stirling, UK) 12. Deleuze After Afro-Pessimism,
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA) 13. Incorporeal Transformations in Truth and Reconciliation: A Posthuman Approach to Transitional Justice,
Mickey Vallee (Athabasca University, Canada)
