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Book SynopsisPosthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring groundbreaking theorists as well as innovative, influential artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories in a time of cultural and environmental crises.
Trade ReviewPosthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader covers a wide range of schools of thought. The assembled selections are wildly diverse in terms of artistic medium, national origin, racial composition, sexual orientation, and species identity and interrelations. It captures this theoretical diversity with a guiding interest in the new-materialist wing of posthumanist discourse. Aloi and McHugh curate an effective fusion of critical and visual discourse, with a particular emphasis on human-animal relations. -- Bruce Clarke, author of
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and SystemsA wonderful and extraordinary curatorial feat that brings together fifty multidisciplinary thinkers and makers who have put forward the boldest, most creative provocations for posthumanist theorizing, writing, and aesthetic practice in the twenty-first century. An essential collection with a new perspective for understanding the work of art in more-than-human worlds. -- Elaine Gan, director of Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab and coeditor of
Arts of Living on a Damaged PlanetDespite having achieved widespread critical currency, posthumanism is a concept that is used in multifarious ways that might be but are not systematically understood. This first comprehensive anthology on posthumanism and the arts offers a wide-ranging, informative, and authoritative account of posthumanist theory. This is a grand and ambitious intellectual project. -- Robert McKay, coeditor of
The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and LiteratureWide-ranging, interdisciplinary and representative of the current international cultural debates about posthumanism, this provocative volume will inspire students, artists, activists, and anyone who is invested in debunking anthropocentrism. -- Cecilia Novero, author of
Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat ArtTable of ContentsIntroduction: Envisioning Posthumanism, by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
Part I: Post-Identity Politics1. Interview with Cassils: Becoming an Image (2018) , by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
2. From
SF: Speculative Fabulation and String Figures (2012) , by Donna Haraway
3. From
Nomadic Theory (2011), by Rosi Braidotti
4. From
Towards a New Class of Being: The Extended Body (2008), by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
5. A Feminist Genealogy of Posthuman Aesthetics in the Visual Arts (2016), by Francesca Ferrando
6. Animality and Blackness (2020), by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
7. Asserting Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace: Interview with the Artist Skawennati (2019), by Amy Ge
8. From
Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (2017), by Edward King and Joanna Page
9. Witnessing Animals: Paintings and the Politics of Seeing (2013), by Sunaura Taylor
10. Video Dog Star: William Wegman, Aesthetic Agency, and the Animal in Experimental Video Art (2001), by Susan McHugh
11. Interview with Garry Marvin: In It Together (2017), by Susan McHugh
12. From
Plant Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), by Michael Marder
13. A Program for Plants (2016), by Giovanni Aloi, Linda Tegg, Joshi Radin, and Brian M. John
14. No Manifesto (1965, 2008), by Yvon Rainer
Part II: Material Dimensions15. Interview with Nandipha Mntambo: Materiality and Vulnerability (2018), by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
16. Locating Me in Order to See You (2007), by Nandipha Mntambo
17. From
The Rendered Material of Film Stock (2009), by Nicole Shukin
18. Interview with Heide Hatry: On Skin and Meat (2010), by Ron Broglio 115
19. On Some Limits of Materiality in Art History (2008), by James Elkins
20. Elephants in the Room: Animal Studies and Art (2015), by Giovanni Aloi
21. From
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998), by Jay Prosser
22. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment (2012), by Tim Ingold
23. Super-natural Futures: One Possible Dialogue Between Afrofuturism and the Anthropocene (2013), by Angela Last
24. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies (2016), by Alexander G. Weheliye
25. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic (2017), by Myra Hird
26. Interview with Graham Harman: On Art and Ecology (2016), by Zane Cerpina
27. From
Dark Ecology (2016), by Timothy Morton
28. From
What Is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice (2012), by Karen Barad
Part III: Registering Interconnectedness29. Interview with Kathy High: Something We Are Responsible To (2016), by Jessica Ullrich
30. From
Writing Machines (2002), by N. Katherine Hayles
31. From
Unexpress the Expressible (2012), by Chus Martínez
32. Introduction to Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality, and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2017), by Erin Manning
33. Posthuman Performance (2010), by Lucian Gomoll
34. Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex and Nature (2019), by Kim Tallbear and Angela Willey
35. Ecosex ManiFesto (2011), by Elizabeth M. Stephens and annie sprinkle
36. Interview with Jane Bennett: Vibrant Matters (2010), by Peter Gratton
37. Interview with Pauline Oliveros: Listening to Cicadas (2013), by Helen Bullard
38. Animals, Nostalgia and Zimbawe’s Rural Landscape in the Poetry of Chenjerai Hove and
Musaemura Zimunya (2016), by Syned Mthatiwa
39. Waiting for Gaia: Composing the Common World Through Art and Politics (2011), by Bruno Latour
40. Interview with Newton Harrison: Force Majeure (2017), by Snæbjörnsdóttir / Wilson
41. Seeds = Future (2013), by Ken Rinaldo
Part IV: Emerging Ecologies42. Interview with Katherine McKittrick: (2021), by Black Human Geographies Betelhem Makonnen
43. Interview with Doo-Sung-Yoo: Organ-Machine Hybrids (2017), by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
44. Interview with Kelly Jazvac: Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone (2015), by Ben Valentine
45. A Questionnaire on Materialisms, by David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, and Hal Foster (2016), with Mel Y. Chen
46. Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America (2016), by Cynthia Milton
47. Interview with Manuela Rossini: Critical Posthumanisms (2012), by David De Kam, Katrien Van Riet, and Hans Verhees
48. African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations (2016), by Gavin Steingo
49. Whose Anthropocene? A Response (2016), by Dipesh Chakrabarty
50. Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species (2011), by Anna Tsing
51. The Rise of Cheap Nature (2016), by Jason W. Moore
52. From
Forensic Architecture: Notes from Fields and Forums (2012), by Eyal Weizman
53. Letters to Dear Climate (2017), by Louis Bury
Coda. Reflections on Art and Posthumanism, by Cary Wolfe
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