Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' -
the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that
address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately
vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human
relations, in short as a posthuman phenomenon. Care philosophy
shares this focus on embodiment and vulnerability in its insistence
on interdependence as the defining condition of human life, making
it well positioned for a posthuman turn. To this end, Curious Kin
in Fictions of Posthuman Care draws together contemporary narrative
fictions that challenge humanist conceptions of care in their
imaginative depiction of more-than-human affective bonds, arguing
for an expansion care philosophy's central figure: the embodied,
embedded, and encumbered 'human'. Fictional narratives of care
between humans and robots, bioengineered creatures, clones,
nonhuman animals, aliens or inanimate things, highlight the limits
of humanist ethical models' capacity to register and accommodate
posthuman relational intimacies, while gesturing towards a model of
care able to accommodate networked interdependencies that extend
beyond the human realm. Texts by Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich,
Louisa Hall, Eva Hornung, Kazuo Ishiguro, Bhanu Kapil, and Jesmyn
Ward, along with films and television programmes like Robot and
Frank, Under the Skin, and Real Humans, depict a range of scenarios
in which more-than-human care relations not only supersede
human-human relationships, but suggest new human/animal/machine
ways of being that offer novel insights into the possible presents
and futures of posthuman care. Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman
Care reveals how these fictions do their own theorizing, imagining
the politics, ethics and aesthetics of specific, contextualized
scenarios of posthuman contact and companionship. Interweaving
posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, Curious
Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care offers generative visions of care
that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies,
behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain
life in more-than-human worlds.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Amelia Defalco
(Professor of Contemporary Literature)
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-288612-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-288612-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780192886125 |
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