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Introduction: What Is Posthumanism?
Part One: Theories, Disciplines, Ethics
1. Meaning and Event, or, Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction"
2. Language and Subjectivity: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The Animal
3. Flesh and Finitude: Bioethics and the Philosophy of The Living
4. "Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities
5. Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject
Part Two: Media, Culture, Practices
6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: The Animal Question in Contemporary Art
7. When You Can't Believe Your Eyes (Or Voice): Dancer in The Dark
8. Lose the Building: Form and System in Contemporary Architecture
9. Emerson's Romanticism, Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity
10. The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism
11. The Digital, the Analog, and the Spectral: Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Notes
Publication History
Index

What Is Posthumanism

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 31 December 2009
      ISBN-13 9780816666157
      978-0816666157
      ISBN-10 0816666156
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: What Is Posthumanism?
      Part One: Theories, Disciplines, Ethics
      1. Meaning and Event, or, Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction"
      2. Language and Subjectivity: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The Animal
      3. Flesh and Finitude: Bioethics and the Philosophy of The Living
      4. "Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities
      5. Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject
      Part Two: Media, Culture, Practices
      6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: The Animal Question in Contemporary Art
      7. When You Can't Believe Your Eyes (Or Voice): Dancer in The Dark
      8. Lose the Building: Form and System in Contemporary Architecture
      9. Emerson's Romanticism, Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity
      10. The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism
      11. The Digital, the Analog, and the Spectral: Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
      Notes
      Publication History
      Index

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