Posthuman Glossary
Published on 22. February 2018
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-1-350-03024-4 (ISBN)
Description
If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on a mass scale, the perpetual war on terror and extensive security systems- with a troublesome reiteration of old, unresolved problems that mean the concept of the human as we had previously known it has undergone dramatic transformations.
The Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the complex reality of the 'posthuman condition', and creates an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-a-vis critical present-day developments. It bridges missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities. This original work will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike.
The Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the complex reality of the 'posthuman condition', and creates an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-a-vis critical present-day developments. It bridges missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities. This original work will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike.
Reviews / Votes
The essays, like the field itself, are diverse in scope, style, and difficulty ... [The] breadth of concepts and topics covered renders this volume, itself part of a series on emerging critical theories, useful in a broad range of academic disciplines. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * Explicitly political through the network it draws together. Its tentacles spread far and wide, raise relevant questions and provide timely ideas on how to re-think affinities and practices. * Anarchist Studies * With Posthuman Glossary, editors Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova bring together a comprehensive and diverse range of entries that make an emphatic intervention in posthuman scholarship, offering neat summaries, exploring new applications and challenges and suggesting intriguing conceptual networks. The product of significant, collective intellectual and adminstrative labour, this ensemble piece will be a catalyst for research, activism and the formation of new ethical communities. * LSE Review of Books * While many academic dictionaries and glossaries offer little of substance or original content, Posthuman Glossary bucks that trend and provides instead a compelling and rewarding compendium. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory * Moving from one entry to the next or following affective or theoretical threads by engaging in the conceptual paths mapped across the book, the reader will travel the creative and vibrant seas of posthumanist thinking, bursting with new concepts and ideas. This transdisciplinary venture provides essential tools for those who want to contest their anthropocentric, humanistic thinking and tackle the challenges of our unprecedented troubled times. It is a necessary task. -- Christine Daigle, Director, Posthumanism Research Institute and Professor of Philosophy, Brock University, Canada Whatever one's previous experience with posthumanism might be, the book's cumulative bibliography is indeed a gold mine. All the references made by the different authors can be found at the end of the book, and this provides the reader with the most complete bibliography of posthumanism and new materialisms. * Ethical Perspectives *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-03024-4 (9781350030244)
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Persons
Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Maria Hlavajova is artistic director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Maria Hlavajova is artistic director BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Content
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova
A
Affective Turn
Heather Houser
Afrofuturism
Ramon Amaro
Ahuman, the
Patricia MacCormack
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Luciana Parisi
Algorithm
Jamie 'Skye' Bianco
Algorithmic Studies
David Theo Goldberg and Jenna Ng
Alienation
James Williams
Altergorithm
Timotheus Vermeulen
Animacies
Mel Y. Chen
Animal
Oxana Timofeeva
Animism (Limulus)
Karen Kramer
Animism
Anselm Franke
Anonymity
Matthew Fuller
Anthropism/Immanent Humanism
Neni Panourgia
Anthropocene Observatory
Territorial Agency and Armin Linke
Anthropocene
Jussi Parikka
Anthro?rpos
Neni Panourgia
Architectonic Disposition
Vera Buehlmann
Art
Tom Holert
Art in the Anthropocene
Heather Davis
B
Biological Arts/Living Arts
Oron Catts
Bios
Neni Panourgia
Blue Humanities
Steve Mentz
Bodies Politic
John Protevi
Body Without Organs
Patricia Pisters
C
Camp
Ethel Brooks
Capitalocene and Chthulucene
Donna Haraway
Commons, the
Lindsay Grace Weber
Commutation Ontology
Lila Athanasiadou
Computational Turn
Luciana Parisi
Contemporary, The
Tom Holert
Cosmopolitics
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Critical Posthumanism
Stefan Herbrechter
D
Decolonial Critique
Shannon Winnubst
Diffraction
Iris van der Tuin
Digital Citizenship
Bernhard Rieder
Digital Philosophy
M. Beatrice Fazi
Digital Rubbish
Jennifer Gabrys
E
Earth
Jussi Parikka
(Material) Ecocriticism
Serenella Iovino
Ecohorror
Christy Tidwell
Ecologies of Architecture
Andrej Radman
Ecomaterialism
Serpil Oppermann
Econtology
Henk Oosterling
Ecopathy
Timotheus Vermeulen
Ecosophy
Rick Dolphijn
Epigenetic Landscape
Susan M. Squier
Equation (Mathematical Thinking)
Vera Buehlmann
Ethereal Scent
Wander Eikelboom
Exclusion Zone
Trevor Paglen
Execution
Critical Software Thing
Expulsions
Saskia Sassen
Extended Cognition
Goda Klumbyte?
Extinction
Claire Colebrook
F
Feminicity
Felicity Colman
Feminist Posthumanities
Cecilia Asberg
Food
Karl Steel
Forests
Paulo Tavares
Four Elements
Gary Genosko
G
Gaga Feminism
Jack Halberstam
General Ecology
Erich Hoerl
Geo- hydro-solar-bio-techno-politics
John Protevi
Geomythologies
The Otolith Group
Geopolitics
Ryan Bishop
Green/Environmental Humanities
Tobijn de Graauw and Elisa Fiore
Gulf Labor
MTL Collective (Nitasha Dhillon and
Amin Husain)
H
Hacking Habitat
Ine Gevers
Hypersea
Jenna Sutela
Hypersocial
Tiziana Terranova
I
Informatic Opacity
Zach Blas
In-human,The
Katerina Kolozova
In/Human
Keti Chukhrov
Insurgent Posthumanism
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Interest/Interesse
Henk Oosterling
Intermediality
Henk Oosterling
Invariance
Vera Buehlmann
'It'
Stuart McLean
J
Joy, Ethics of
Rosi Braidotti
K
Kin
Goda Klumbyte?
L
Lampedusa
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
Leaks and Stings
Ravi Sundaram
Literature of Liberation
Serenella Iovino
Locality/Non-separability
Lila Athanasiadou
M
MakeHuman
Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha
Material Feminisms
Astrida Neimanis
Mattering
Brandon Jones
Maxwell's Demon (Non-Anthropocentric Cognition)
Vera Buehlmann
Medianatures
Jussi Parikka
Metadata Society
Matteo Pasquinelli
Metamodernism
Timotheus Vermeulen
Metastability
Aud Sissel Hoel
Monster/The Unhuman
Nikita Mazurov
Multispecies
Eben Kirksey
Multiverse
Francesca Ferrando
N
Naturecultures
Iris van der Tuin
Necropolitics
Christine Quinan
Negentropy
Vera Buehlmann
Neo/New Materialism
Iris van der Tuin
Neocolonial
Sandra Ponzanesi
Neocybernetics
Bruce Clarke
Networked Affect
Susanna Paasonen
Neuronal Aesthetics
Patricia Pisters
Noise
Inigo Wilkins
Nomadic Sensibility
Daniel Baker
Non-human Agency
Jeffrey Scott Marchand
O
Object- oriented Ontology
Peter Wolfendale
Obsolete Technologies
Tamara Shepherd and Koen Leurs
Occupy (after Deleuze)
Rick Dolphijn
Ontological Turn, the
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Organization in Platform Capitalism
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
Otherwise Embodied Others
Pierre Huyghe
P
P2P (Peer to Peer) Economies
Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis
Pill, the (Posthuman Icon)
Anneke Smelik and Elisa Fiore
Placenta Politics
Rosi Braidotti
Planetary
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Plasticity
Tom Giesbers
Political Affect
John Protevi
Post Internet
Tom Clark
Postanimalism
Tsz Man Chan
Postdisciplinarity
Nina Lykke
Postglacial
Ursula Biemann
Posthuman Critical Theory
Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Disability and DisHuman Studies
Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom,
Kirsty Liddiard and
Katherine Runswick-Cole
Posthuman Ethics
Patricia MacCormack
Posthuman Literature and Criticism
Carolyn Lau
Posthuman Museum Practices
Fiona R. Cameron
Posthuman Rights, a Micropolitics of
Patrick Hanafin
Posthuman Sexuality
Patricia MacCormack
Posthumanism
Cary Wolfe
Posthumanist Performativity
Elisa Fiore
Postimage
Ingrid Hoelzl
Postmedieval
Eileen A. Joy
Precognition
Ramon Amaro
Pregnant Posthuman
Rodante van der Waal
Process Ontologies
James Williams
Q
Quantum Anthropology
Vicki Kirby
R
Radical Mediocrity
Henk Oosterling
Rationalist Inhumanism
Peter Wolfendale
Real Cool Ethics
Shannon Winnubst
Resilience
Jeremy Walker and Melinda Cooper
Rewilding
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Robophilosophy
Johanna Seibt
S
Sensing Practices
Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard
Socially Just Pedagogies
Vivienne Bozalek
Speculative Posthumanism
David Roden
SS= Security/Surveillance
Stephanie Simon
Stateless State
Jonas Staal
Static Glow
Mirko Tobias Schaefer and Audrey Samson
Storied Matter
Serpil Oppermann
Survival
Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann
Symbiogenesis
Bruce Clarke
T
Technicity
Aud Sissel Hoel
Technoanimalism
Rick Dolphijn and Tove Kjellmark
Terrestrial
Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele
Tolerances and Duration
Harry Sanderson and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe
Trans*
Goda Klumbyte?
Trans-corporeality
Stacy Alaimo
Transhumanism/Posthumanism
Francesca Ferrando
U
(Un)Documented Citizenship
Ernst van den Hemel
Urbanibalism
Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli
V
Vertigo Sea
John Akomfrah
Vibrant Matter
Jane Bennett
Violence
Shela Sheikh
W
War
Jolle Demmers
Wearable Technology
Anneke Smelik
X
Xenofeminism
Helen Hester
Y
Youth
Koen Leurs, Tamara Shepherd and Alison Harvey
Z
Zombie
Oxana Timofeeva
Cumulative Bibliography
Series Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova
A
Affective Turn
Heather Houser
Afrofuturism
Ramon Amaro
Ahuman, the
Patricia MacCormack
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Luciana Parisi
Algorithm
Jamie 'Skye' Bianco
Algorithmic Studies
David Theo Goldberg and Jenna Ng
Alienation
James Williams
Altergorithm
Timotheus Vermeulen
Animacies
Mel Y. Chen
Animal
Oxana Timofeeva
Animism (Limulus)
Karen Kramer
Animism
Anselm Franke
Anonymity
Matthew Fuller
Anthropism/Immanent Humanism
Neni Panourgia
Anthropocene Observatory
Territorial Agency and Armin Linke
Anthropocene
Jussi Parikka
Anthro?rpos
Neni Panourgia
Architectonic Disposition
Vera Buehlmann
Art
Tom Holert
Art in the Anthropocene
Heather Davis
B
Biological Arts/Living Arts
Oron Catts
Bios
Neni Panourgia
Blue Humanities
Steve Mentz
Bodies Politic
John Protevi
Body Without Organs
Patricia Pisters
C
Camp
Ethel Brooks
Capitalocene and Chthulucene
Donna Haraway
Commons, the
Lindsay Grace Weber
Commutation Ontology
Lila Athanasiadou
Computational Turn
Luciana Parisi
Contemporary, The
Tom Holert
Cosmopolitics
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Critical Posthumanism
Stefan Herbrechter
D
Decolonial Critique
Shannon Winnubst
Diffraction
Iris van der Tuin
Digital Citizenship
Bernhard Rieder
Digital Philosophy
M. Beatrice Fazi
Digital Rubbish
Jennifer Gabrys
E
Earth
Jussi Parikka
(Material) Ecocriticism
Serenella Iovino
Ecohorror
Christy Tidwell
Ecologies of Architecture
Andrej Radman
Ecomaterialism
Serpil Oppermann
Econtology
Henk Oosterling
Ecopathy
Timotheus Vermeulen
Ecosophy
Rick Dolphijn
Epigenetic Landscape
Susan M. Squier
Equation (Mathematical Thinking)
Vera Buehlmann
Ethereal Scent
Wander Eikelboom
Exclusion Zone
Trevor Paglen
Execution
Critical Software Thing
Expulsions
Saskia Sassen
Extended Cognition
Goda Klumbyte?
Extinction
Claire Colebrook
F
Feminicity
Felicity Colman
Feminist Posthumanities
Cecilia Asberg
Food
Karl Steel
Forests
Paulo Tavares
Four Elements
Gary Genosko
G
Gaga Feminism
Jack Halberstam
General Ecology
Erich Hoerl
Geo- hydro-solar-bio-techno-politics
John Protevi
Geomythologies
The Otolith Group
Geopolitics
Ryan Bishop
Green/Environmental Humanities
Tobijn de Graauw and Elisa Fiore
Gulf Labor
MTL Collective (Nitasha Dhillon and
Amin Husain)
H
Hacking Habitat
Ine Gevers
Hypersea
Jenna Sutela
Hypersocial
Tiziana Terranova
I
Informatic Opacity
Zach Blas
In-human,The
Katerina Kolozova
In/Human
Keti Chukhrov
Insurgent Posthumanism
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Interest/Interesse
Henk Oosterling
Intermediality
Henk Oosterling
Invariance
Vera Buehlmann
'It'
Stuart McLean
J
Joy, Ethics of
Rosi Braidotti
K
Kin
Goda Klumbyte?
L
Lampedusa
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
Leaks and Stings
Ravi Sundaram
Literature of Liberation
Serenella Iovino
Locality/Non-separability
Lila Athanasiadou
M
MakeHuman
Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha
Material Feminisms
Astrida Neimanis
Mattering
Brandon Jones
Maxwell's Demon (Non-Anthropocentric Cognition)
Vera Buehlmann
Medianatures
Jussi Parikka
Metadata Society
Matteo Pasquinelli
Metamodernism
Timotheus Vermeulen
Metastability
Aud Sissel Hoel
Monster/The Unhuman
Nikita Mazurov
Multispecies
Eben Kirksey
Multiverse
Francesca Ferrando
N
Naturecultures
Iris van der Tuin
Necropolitics
Christine Quinan
Negentropy
Vera Buehlmann
Neo/New Materialism
Iris van der Tuin
Neocolonial
Sandra Ponzanesi
Neocybernetics
Bruce Clarke
Networked Affect
Susanna Paasonen
Neuronal Aesthetics
Patricia Pisters
Noise
Inigo Wilkins
Nomadic Sensibility
Daniel Baker
Non-human Agency
Jeffrey Scott Marchand
O
Object- oriented Ontology
Peter Wolfendale
Obsolete Technologies
Tamara Shepherd and Koen Leurs
Occupy (after Deleuze)
Rick Dolphijn
Ontological Turn, the
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Organization in Platform Capitalism
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
Otherwise Embodied Others
Pierre Huyghe
P
P2P (Peer to Peer) Economies
Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis
Pill, the (Posthuman Icon)
Anneke Smelik and Elisa Fiore
Placenta Politics
Rosi Braidotti
Planetary
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Plasticity
Tom Giesbers
Political Affect
John Protevi
Post Internet
Tom Clark
Postanimalism
Tsz Man Chan
Postdisciplinarity
Nina Lykke
Postglacial
Ursula Biemann
Posthuman Critical Theory
Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Disability and DisHuman Studies
Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom,
Kirsty Liddiard and
Katherine Runswick-Cole
Posthuman Ethics
Patricia MacCormack
Posthuman Literature and Criticism
Carolyn Lau
Posthuman Museum Practices
Fiona R. Cameron
Posthuman Rights, a Micropolitics of
Patrick Hanafin
Posthuman Sexuality
Patricia MacCormack
Posthumanism
Cary Wolfe
Posthumanist Performativity
Elisa Fiore
Postimage
Ingrid Hoelzl
Postmedieval
Eileen A. Joy
Precognition
Ramon Amaro
Pregnant Posthuman
Rodante van der Waal
Process Ontologies
James Williams
Q
Quantum Anthropology
Vicki Kirby
R
Radical Mediocrity
Henk Oosterling
Rationalist Inhumanism
Peter Wolfendale
Real Cool Ethics
Shannon Winnubst
Resilience
Jeremy Walker and Melinda Cooper
Rewilding
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Robophilosophy
Johanna Seibt
S
Sensing Practices
Jennifer Gabrys and Helen Pritchard
Socially Just Pedagogies
Vivienne Bozalek
Speculative Posthumanism
David Roden
SS= Security/Surveillance
Stephanie Simon
Stateless State
Jonas Staal
Static Glow
Mirko Tobias Schaefer and Audrey Samson
Storied Matter
Serpil Oppermann
Survival
Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann
Symbiogenesis
Bruce Clarke
T
Technicity
Aud Sissel Hoel
Technoanimalism
Rick Dolphijn and Tove Kjellmark
Terrestrial
Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele
Tolerances and Duration
Harry Sanderson and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe
Trans*
Goda Klumbyte?
Trans-corporeality
Stacy Alaimo
Transhumanism/Posthumanism
Francesca Ferrando
U
(Un)Documented Citizenship
Ernst van den Hemel
Urbanibalism
Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli
V
Vertigo Sea
John Akomfrah
Vibrant Matter
Jane Bennett
Violence
Shela Sheikh
W
War
Jolle Demmers
Wearable Technology
Anneke Smelik
X
Xenofeminism
Helen Hester
Y
Youth
Koen Leurs, Tamara Shepherd and Alison Harvey
Z
Zombie
Oxana Timofeeva
Cumulative Bibliography