This volume is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities-- Provided by publisher.
This volume is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities.
With the advent of posthumanism, many scholars in the humanities have started to explore a transforming conception of the “human,” recognizing the limits of “anthropocentricism” both within and between disciplines. Posthumanism may be defined in various ways but the emphasis in this volume is on the idea of constitutive alterity, not simply in the relationship between human beings and other human beings, but in that between human beings and other species and life forms, and between human beings, nature and technology. As a result, Encounters with the Posthuman and the Environment is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities. Between them they move not only between disciplines but also between levels of abstraction, from the most general reflection to the most everyday empirical detail. At the same time, all the chapters are case studies, whether they address particular aspects of philosophical or scientific posthumanism, analyze particular pieces of film, theatre, art, literature, or recall for us instructive episodes from social history. The aim at any rate is to give a feel for the range and depth of the posthumanist problematic within the wider context of environmental humanities.
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This collection demonstrates convincingly how posthumanist concerns can be brought to bear on environmental humanities. The coverage of disciplines and topics is comprehensive - music, film, theatre, art, literature, philosophy and social history are all addressed - and the range of approaches from conceptual analysis to case studies means that there is something here for everyone. -- Özden Sözalan, Istanbul Bilgi University
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This volume is located at a crossover between posthumanism and environmental humanities.
Preface: The Fate of Vitruvian Man
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humanism, Posthumanism, Animals, Earth
Chapter 2: Encounters with Ancestors: Being/s Before the Human
Chapter 3: Spinoza and Renaturalization
Chapter 4: Posthuman, Literary Canon and A Difficult Dialogue: Literature
about Environment or Environmental Literature?
Chapter 5: Exiting Human Environment: Metamorphosis in Bilge Karasus The
Garden of Departed Cats
Chapter 6: Voice(s): Ontological Pluralism in Contemporary Environmental
Poetics
Chapter 7: Canine Ecology, Spatial Politics, and the Annihilation of
Istanbuls Dogs in the Last Decades of the Ottoman Empire
Chapter 8: Flânerie Beyond the City: Urban Mobility and Nature Encounters in
Late Ottoman Istanbul via Servet-i Fünûn Narratives
Chapter 9: Singing the Human Away: Manifestations of the Posthuman in Music
Chapter 10: An Essay for the Living in a Time of Extinction
Chapter 11: Mothering the Mother: Africanfuturist Time-Images in Wanuri
Kahius Pumzi
Chapter 12: (Non/Post) Human: Body, Technology, Environment/Phases of Matter,
De
Humani Corporis Fabrica
About the Contributors
nci Bilgin Tekin is associate professor of English Language and Literature at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Zeynep Talay Turner is professor of philosophy at Istanbul Bilgi University.
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