What is posthumanism?
By: Cary Wolfe.
Series: Posthumanities series -- v. 8
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816666140; 9780816666157
Subjects: Humanism; Aesthetics -- Philosophy; Deconstruction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Meaning and event; or, systems theory and "the reconstruction of deconstruction"; title: Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction; title: Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living; title: "Animal studies," disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities; title: Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject; title: From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art; title: When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark; title: Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture; title: Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity; title: The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism; title: The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts.