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Critical Life Studies

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Book 2018

Perishability Fatigue

Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay

Vincent Bruyere

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Vincent Bruyere offers an invitation to look at the present we live in through a fresh lens: the difference between storage and burial in the age of sustainability science. He reflects on the nature and significance of perishability in a culture of preparedness and survival.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/bruy18858
ISBN:: 9780231547949
Subject:: Life Sciences
Subject:: Ecology
Publisher:: Columbia University Press

Book 2018

Speculative Taxidermy

Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene

Giovanni Aloi

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Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/aloi18070
ISBN:: 9780231543217
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture and Design, other
Publisher:: Columbia University Press

Book 2018

Countersexual Manifesto

Paul B. Preciado, Jack Halberstam, Kevin Gerry Dunn

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Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/prec17562
ISBN:: 9780231548687
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Gender and the Body
Publisher:: Columbia University Press

Book 2017

Foucault's Futures

A Critique of Reproductive Reason

Penelope Deutscher

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Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and what it means for feminism and critical theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/deut17640
ISBN:: 9780231544559
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Frankfurt School
Publisher:: Columbia University Press

Book 2017

Posthumous Life

Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook

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Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent “turns” toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Essays examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various redefinitions of what counts as life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/wein17214
ISBN:: 9780231544320
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: Early Modern Philosophy
Publisher:: Columbia University Press

Book 2016

Through Vegetal Being

Two Philosophical Perspectives

Luce Irigaray, Michael Marder

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A unique collaboration to map the ontology and epistemology of the human-plant relationship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7312/irig17386
ISBN:: 9780231541510
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: Columbia University Press