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The Nonhuman Turn
The Nonhuman Turn
Richard Grusin, Editor
A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies
This is the first book to name and consolidate a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, understood by contributors in a variety of ways--in terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, materiality, technologies, and organic and geophysical systems.
As we contemplate the relevance of the humanities in the twenty- first century, The Nonhuman Turn offers a valuable, if provocative, direction to pursue--question the “human” in the humanities.
-- ISLE
Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize--and therefore consolidate--a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, understood by contributors in a variety of ways--in terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, materiality, technologies, and organic and geophysical systems. The nonhuman turn in twenty-first-century studies can be traced to multiple intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the twentieth century: actor-network theory, affect theory, animal studies, assemblage theory, cognitive sciences, new materialism, new media theory, speculative realism, and systems theory. Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their assumptions, objects, and methodologies. However, they all take up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of twenty-first-century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Unlike the posthuman turn, the nonhuman turn does not make a claim about teleology or progress in which we begin with the human and see a transformation from the human to the posthuman. Rather, the nonhuman turn insists (paraphrasing Bruno Latour) that “we have never been human,” that the human has always coevolved, coexisted, or collaborated with the nonhuman--and that the human is identified precisely by this indistinction from the nonhuman. Contributors: Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins U; Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of T Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown U; Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke U; Erin Manning, Concordia U, M Brian Massumi, U of M Timothy Morton, Rice U; Steven Shaviro, Wayne State U; Rebekah Sheldon, Indiana U.
Richard Grusin is director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of several books, including Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11.
As we contemplate the relevance of the humanities in the twenty- first century, The Nonhuman Turn offers a valuable, if provocative, direction to pursue--question the “human” in the humanities.
-- ISLE
A good overview of the various strands of thinking that have contributed to thought on the Anthropocene in relation to media.
-- The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
A fascinating, daring and challenging read that deserves to fuel discussion and raises some interesting challenges to anthropocentric critical discourse.
-- The Anthropocene Review Blog
Presents rich, compelling interdisciplinary work that pushes the boundary of how we understand the human and the nonhuman, relationality, art, sympathy, and literary critical writing.
-- Configurations
Contents Introduction Richard Grusin 1. The Supernormal Animal Brian Massumi 2. Consequences of Panpsychism Steven Shaviro 3. Artfulness Erin Manning 4.The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry Ian Bogost 5. Our Predictive C or, Prediction in the Wild Mark B. N. Hansen 6. Crisis, Crisis, C or, the Temporality of Networks Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 7. They Are Here Timothy Morton 8. Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New Materialism Rebekah Sheldon 9. Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented Philosophy Jane Bennett Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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