Description
Book SynopsisMonkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism, which aims to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness.
Trade Review"Posthumanists, new materialists, neovitalists, cosmopoliticians, accelerationists, xenofeminists, post-poststructuralists, and speculative realists will have much to argue with here. But this is an argument they-we-would be well advised to have at this historical moment-a decade or two into the broader 'nonhuman turn'-given the often baroque claims, naive enthusiasms, and extravagant contradictions performed in its name. In Peterson's meticulous and elliptical critique we encounter a forceful Counter-Reformation against the more heretical proclamations of posthumanism; along with a nuanced insistence that-when all is said and done-we are human, all too human, after all." -- -Dominic Pettman The New School for Social Research
Table of ContentsIntroduction
(1) The Scandal of the Human: Immanent Transcendency and the Question of Animal Language
(2) Sovereign Silence: The Desire for Answering Speech
(3) The Gravity of Melancholia: A Critique of Speculative Realism
(4) Listing Toward Cosmocracy: The Limits of Hospitality
Notes
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Index
