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Being Human - Between Animals and Technology (Hardcover)
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Being Human - Between Animals and Technology (Hardcover)
Series: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
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Technology and animals often serve as the boundaries by which we
define the human. In this issue contributors explore these
categories as necessary supplements or as porous membranes which
disturb the scaffolding of how the human is constructed. A
lingering question throughout is whether we have ever been human or
if such a category is a non-localizable ideal or perhaps a
misnomer. In this collection of essays, internationally known
theorists muddle the categorical boundaries such that animals and
technologies become necessary components rather than limits for
what it means to be human. They examine a range of subjects,
including apophatic animality, critical media
objects-to-think-with, biosemiotic insect resonances, the monstrous
and horrific which dislodges our cultural animals, and the problem
of thinking of animality as stupidity. Novels, films, digital
objects, scientific laboratories, philosophical texts, animals on
the road and in the fields serve as sites for inquiry. The result
of these investigations is the spectral possibility that we are not
the humans we make ourselves out to be. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Angelaki.
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