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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135399203321

Autore

Colebrook Claire

Titolo

Death of the PostHuman. Volume 1 : essays on extinction / / Claire Colebrook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Humanities Press, 2014

Michigan : , : Open Humanities Press, , 2014

ISBN

9781607852995 (ebook)

9781785420115 (paperback)

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Critical Climate Change

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Speculative Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references (page 230-243).

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as 'theory,' and its contemporary supposedly post-human aftermath. There can be no redemptive post-human future in which the myopia and anthropocentrism of the species finds an exit and manages to emerge with ecology and life. At the same time, what has come to be known as the human - despite its normative intensity - can provide neither foundation nor critical lever in the Anthropocene epoch. Death of the PostHuman argues for a twenty-first century deconstruction of ecological and seemingly post-human futures.