{"product_id":"posthumanism-in-art-and-science-9780231196673","title":"Posthumanism in Art and Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosthumanism in Art and Science\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePosthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eArts of Living on a Damaged Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWide-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 \u003ci\u003eAntidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Envisioning Posthumanism, by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Post-Identity Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Interview with Cassils: Becoming an Image (2018) , by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh \u003cbr\u003e2. From \u003ci\u003eSF: Speculative Fabulation and String Figures\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) , by Donna Haraway \u003cbr\u003e3. From \u003ci\u003eNomadic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), by Rosi Braidotti \u003cbr\u003e4. From \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Class of Being: The Extended Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr \u003cbr\u003e5. A Feminist Genealogy of Posthuman Aesthetics in the Visual Arts (2016), by Francesca Ferrando \u003cbr\u003e6. Animality and Blackness (2020), by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson \u003cbr\u003e7. Asserting Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace: Interview with the Artist Skawennati (2019), by Amy Ge \u003cbr\u003e8. From \u003ci\u003ePosthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), by Edward King and Joanna Page\u003cbr\u003e9. Witnessing Animals: Paintings and the Politics of Seeing (2013), by Sunaura Taylor \u003cbr\u003e10. Video Dog Star: William Wegman, Aesthetic Agency, and the Animal in Experimental Video Art (2001), by Susan McHugh \u003cbr\u003e11. Interview with Garry Marvin: In It Together (2017), by Susan McHugh \u003cbr\u003e12. From \u003ci\u003ePlant Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), by Michael Marder\u003cbr\u003e13. A Program for Plants (2016), by Giovanni Aloi, Linda Tegg, Joshi Radin, and Brian M. John\u003cbr\u003e14. No Manifesto (1965, 2008), by Yvon Rainer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Material Dimensions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15. Interview with Nandipha Mntambo: Materiality and Vulnerability (2018), by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh \u003cbr\u003e16. Locating Me in Order to See You (2007), by Nandipha Mntambo \u003cbr\u003e17. From \u003ci\u003eThe Rendered Material of Film Stock\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), by Nicole Shukin \u003cbr\u003e18. Interview with Heide Hatry: On Skin and Meat (2010), by Ron Broglio 115\u003cbr\u003e19. On Some Limits of Materiality in Art History (2008), by James Elkins \u003cbr\u003e20. Elephants in the Room: Animal Studies and Art (2015), by Giovanni Aloi \u003cbr\u003e21. From \u003ci\u003eSecond Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), by Jay Prosser \u003cbr\u003e22. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment (2012), by Tim Ingold \u003cbr\u003e23. Super-natural Futures: One Possible Dialogue Between Afrofuturism and the Anthropocene (2013), by Angela Last \u003cbr\u003e24. Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies (2016), by Alexander G. Weheliye \u003cbr\u003e25. Proliferation, Extinction, and an Anthropocene Aesthetic (2017), by Myra Hird \u003cbr\u003e26. Interview with Graham Harman: On Art and Ecology (2016), by Zane Cerpina \u003cbr\u003e27. From \u003ci\u003eDark Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), by Timothy Morton \u003cbr\u003e28. From \u003ci\u003eWhat Is the Measure of Nothingness? Infinity, Virtuality, Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), by Karen Barad \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Registering Interconnectedness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e29. Interview with Kathy High: Something We Are Responsible To (2016), by Jessica Ullrich \u003cbr\u003e30. From \u003ci\u003eWriting Machines\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), by N. Katherine Hayles \u003cbr\u003e31. From \u003ci\u003eUnexpress the Expressible\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), by Chus Martínez \u003cbr\u003e32. Introduction to Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality, and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2017), by Erin Manning \u003cbr\u003e33. Posthuman Performance (2010), by Lucian Gomoll \u003cbr\u003e34. Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex and Nature (2019), by Kim Tallbear and Angela Willey \u003cbr\u003e35. Ecosex ManiFesto (2011), by Elizabeth M. Stephens and annie sprinkle \u003cbr\u003e36. Interview with Jane Bennett: Vibrant Matters (2010), by Peter Gratton \u003cbr\u003e37. Interview with Pauline Oliveros: Listening to Cicadas (2013), by Helen Bullard \u003cbr\u003e38. Animals, Nostalgia and Zimbawe’s Rural Landscape in the Poetry of Chenjerai Hove and\u003cbr\u003eMusaemura Zimunya (2016), by Syned Mthatiwa \u003cbr\u003e39. Waiting for Gaia: Composing the Common World Through Art and Politics (2011), by Bruno Latour \u003cbr\u003e40. Interview with Newton Harrison: Force Majeure (2017), by Snæbjörnsdóttir \/ Wilson \u003cbr\u003e41. Seeds = Future (2013), by Ken Rinaldo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Emerging Ecologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e42. Interview with Katherine McKittrick: (2021), by Black Human Geographies Betelhem Makonnen \u003cbr\u003e43. Interview with Doo-Sung-Yoo: Organ-Machine Hybrids (2017), by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck \u003cbr\u003e44. Interview with Kelly Jazvac: Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone (2015), by Ben Valentine \u003cbr\u003e45. A Questionnaire on Materialisms, by David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, and Hal Foster (2016), with Mel Y. Chen \u003cbr\u003e46. Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America (2016), by Cynthia Milton \u003cbr\u003e47. Interview with Manuela Rossini: Critical Posthumanisms (2012), by David De Kam, Katrien Van Riet, and Hans Verhees \u003cbr\u003e48. African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations (2016), by Gavin Steingo \u003cbr\u003e49. Whose Anthropocene? A Response (2016), by Dipesh Chakrabarty \u003cbr\u003e50. Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species (2011), by Anna Tsing \u003cbr\u003e51. The Rise of Cheap Nature (2016), by Jason W. Moore \u003cbr\u003e52. From \u003ci\u003eForensic Architecture: Notes from Fields and Forums\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), by Eyal Weizman \u003cbr\u003e53. Letters to Dear Climate (2017), by Louis Bury \u003cbr\u003eCoda. Reflections on Art and Posthumanism, by Cary Wolfe \u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864261341527,"sku":"9780231196673","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231196673.jpg?v=1722271124","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/posthumanism-in-art-and-science-9780231196673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}