Posthumanism constructs a posthumanist subject through philosophy, critical theory and literature. It tracks diverse developments of posthumanisms – from anti-humanism to poststructuralism and psychoanalysis – using micro-readings of literary narratives to situate posthumanist ideas and establish an interpretive praxis. Underlining the ethico-political strand, Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity demonstrates how to imagine a posthuman socio-political subject that renounces claims to species supremacy and anthropocentric privilege via the categories of animality, object, technology and ecology. The volume brings together lucid philosophical discussions on the nature of subjectivity with analyses of texts as diverse as Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, John Banville's Eclipse and Shroud, Ted Hughes's poetry, and Salman Rushdie's Shame, among many others. "Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity conducts an extensive theoretical and cultural critique of the normalized anthropocentric subject of modernity, calling for its replacement by a transversal nomadic and plural subject co-constituted by the nonhuman.” — Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, Doshi Professor of Asian Art, Dept. Chair, East-West Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies “Who are We? With eyes wide open, this book shines light on posthumanist subjectivity, showing how the wisdom of an antelope and the predictive models of big data are part of our collective unconscious.” — Francesca Ferrando, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, New... See more
Posthumanism constructs a posthumanist subject through philosophy, critical theory and literature. It tracks diverse developments of posthumanisms – from anti-humanism to poststructuralism and psychoanalysis – using micro-readings of literary narratives to situate posthumanist ideas and establish an interpretive praxis. Underlining the ethico-political strand, Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity demonstrates how to imagine a posthuman socio-political subject that renounces claims to species supremacy and anthropocentric privilege via the categories of animality, object, technology and ecology. The volume brings together lucid philosophical discussions on the nature of subjectivity with analyses of texts as diverse as Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, John Banville's Eclipse and Shroud, Ted Hughes's poetry, and Salman Rushdie's Shame, among many others. "Posthumanism: Politics of Subjectivity conducts an extensive theoretical and cultural critique of the normalized anthropocentric subject of modernity, calling for its replacement by a transversal nomadic and plural subject co-constituted by the nonhuman.” — Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, Doshi Professor of Asian Art, Dept. Chair, East-West Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies “Who are We? With eyes wide open, this book shines light on posthumanist subjectivity, showing how the wisdom of an antelope and the predictive models of big data are part of our collective unconscious.” — Francesca Ferrando, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies, New York University “Chattopadhyay persuasively pitches an ethico-political posthumanism as a vantage point from which a critique of capitalist transhumanism may be pursued.” — from the Preface by Udaya Kumar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
