Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses. With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies - including Spinoza and Nietzsche - to posthuman thought. As positions that insist, respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism), each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being, thought, experience, and life. The authors here take examples from a range of different media, including literature and contemporary cinema, featuring films such as Enthiran/The Robot (India, 2010) and CHAPPiE (USA/Mexico, 2015), and new developments in technology and theory. In doing so, they investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics, and social justice. Countering the dualisms of Cartesian philosophy and flattening the hierarchies imposed by Humanism, From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism launches vital interrogations of established knowledge and sparks the critical reflection necessary for life in the posthuman era.
Show moreUncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses. With the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari serving as a vibrant node of immanence, this volume maps a multiplicity of pathways from Deleuze, Guattari and their theoretical allies - including Spinoza and Nietzsche - to posthuman thought. As positions that insist, respectively, on the equal yet distinct powers of mind and body (immanence) and the urgent need to dismantle human privilege and exceptionality (posthumanism), each chapter reveals concepts for rethinking established notions of being, thought, experience, and life. The authors here take examples from a range of different media, including literature and contemporary cinema, featuring films such as Enthiran/The Robot (India, 2010) and CHAPPiE (USA/Mexico, 2015), and new developments in technology and theory. In doing so, they investigate Deleuzian and Guattarian posthumanism from a variety of political and ethical frameworks and perspectives, from afro-pessimism to feminist thought, disability studies, biopolitics, and social justice. Countering the dualisms of Cartesian philosophy and flattening the hierarchies imposed by Humanism, From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism launches vital interrogations of established knowledge and sparks the critical reflection necessary for life in the posthuman era.
Show moreIntroduction: Posthumanisms Through Deleuze, Christine Daigle
(Brock University, Canada) and Terrance H. McDonald (Brock
University, Canada)
1. Posthuman Monism, Vital Neo-Materialisms, Affirmation, Rosi
Braidotti (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
2. Deleuzean Traces: The Self of the Polyp, Christine Daigle (Brock
University, Canada)
3. The Art of Good Encounters: Spinoza, Deleuze and Macherey on
Moving from Passive to Active Joy, Bruce Baugh (Thompson Rivers
University, Canada)
4. Symmetry & Asymmetry in Conceptual and Morphological Formations:
The Difference Plant Body Growth Can Make to Human Thought, Karen
L. F. Houle (University of Guelph, Canada)
5. Back to Earth! A Comparative Study Between Husserl’s and
Deleuze’s Cosmologies, Alain Beaulieu (Laurentian University,
Canada)
6. Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life, Terrance
H. McDonald (Brock University, Canada)
7. Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular
Cinema, Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University,
Canada)
8. ‘Subaltern’ Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence: Enthiran and
CHAPPiE, William Brown (Roehampton University, UK)
9. The Biopolitics of Posthumanism in ‘Tears in Rain’, Sherryl Vint
(University of California, Riverside, USA)
10. Dis/abled Reflections on Posthumanism and Biotech, Martin
Boucher (Laurentian University, Canada)
11. Becoming-Squid, Becoming-Insect, and the Refrain Of/From
Becoming-Imperceptible in Contemporary Science Fiction: Or Scarlett
the Post-Human Starlet, and Her ‘All too Human’ Male Counterparts,
David H. Fleming (University of Stirling, UK)
12. Deleuze After Afro-Pessimism, Claire Colebrook (Penn State
University, USA)
13. Incorporeal Transformations in Truth and Reconciliation: A
Posthuman Approach to Transitional Justice, Mickey Vallee
(Athabasca University, Canada)
Using up-to-date examples from film, literature, and technology, international scholars explore the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence.
Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy at Brock
University, Canada, where she is also Director of the Posthumanism
Research Institute.
Terrance H. McDonald is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Posthumanism Research Network, Brock University, Canada. He is also
the editor of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism.
[T]he collection offers an important first step in a discourse ripe
for theoretical inquiry, namely Deleuze, Guattari and Posthumanism.
These theorists should be applauded for their sustained critique of
Humanism and Anthropocentrism.
*Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge*
A beautiful, ethically nuanced and radically divergent collection
of invigorating contributions to the Deleuzio-Guattarian posthuman
arena. This volume makes key concepts and applications relevant,
sometimes devastatingly so, to the times in which we live, and in
ethically living with these times.
*Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, ARU,
Cambridge, UK*
Emerging from generative precursors of Deleuzian immanence and
interconnectivity, this superb collection offers multivalent
musings on the theme of posthumanism. Mapping intersecting pathways
across philosophy, aesthetics and politics, the essays subvert
humanist thinking to reimagine life as an affective force for
creative experimentation, diversification and joy.
*Simone Bignall, Research Professor, Jumbunna Institute, University
of Technology Sydney, Australia.*
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