Posthuman systems / Simone Bignall and Rosi Braidotti -- Deleuze and diffraction / Iris van der Tuin -- Cartographies of environmental arts / Jussi Parikka -- Involutionary architecture : Unyoking coherence from congruence / Andrej Radman -- Love of learning : amorous and fatal / Elizabeth de Freitas -- Time and the posthuman : Rosi Braidotti and A.W. Moore on the posthuman and anthropocentrism after Deleuze's philosophy of time / James Williams -- 'Becoming-Equal to the Act' : The temporality of action and agential responsibility / Sean Bowden -- Heterogeneous collectivity and the capacity to act : conceptualising nonhumans in political space / Suzanne McCullagh -- Indigeneity, posthumanism and Nomad thought : transforming colonial ecologies / Simone Bignall, Daryle Rigney -- Kinopolitics : borders in motion / Thomas Nail -- Out of control : from political economy to political ecology / Gregory Flaxman -- Economic systems and the problematic character of price / Jon Roffe -- A modification in the subject of right : Deleuze, jurisprudence and the diagram of bees in Roman law / Edward Mussawir -- Lines of Shite : microbial-mineral chatter in the anthropocene / Myra J. Hird, Kathryn Yusoff.
Summary:
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary capitalist geopolitics and biotechnologies of control. Understanding the potential for such resistance in the posthuman condition requires urgent new thinking about the nature of human influence in complex interactional systems, and about the nature of such systems when conceived in non-anthropocentric way. Through specific readings and uses of Deleuze's conceptual apparatus, this volume examines the operation of human-actioned systems as complex and heterogeneous arenas of affection and accountability. This exciting collection extends non-humanist concepts for understanding reality, agency and interaction in dynamic ecologies of reciprocal determination and influence. The outcome is a vital new theorisation of human scope, responsibility and potential in the posthuman condition.
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