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Alien Vectors: Accelerationism, Xenofeminism, Inhumanism book cover

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Alien Vectors: Accelerationism, Xenofeminism, Inhumanism

Edited By James Trafford, Pete Wolfendale Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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This book works through the notion of the alien in contemporary philosophy. The authors attempt to think through politics, posthumanism, and alienation beyond and across the circuitry of thought that would otherwise enfold the alien in its regressive and parochial trappings. The figure of the Other has held critical thought in its sway for decades, to the point that we now suffer from a... Read more

Foreword

James Trafford and Pete Wolfendale

Introduction – Alien Vectors: accelerationism, xenofeminism, inhumanism

James Trafford and Pete Wolfendale

Part I: Politics

1. Strategy Without a Strategiser

Alex Williams

2. Platform Cosmologies: enabling resituation

Patricia Reed

3. Empire’s New Clothes: after the "peaceful violence" of neoliberal coloniality

James Trafford

Part II: Posthumanism

4. The Reformatting of Homo Sapiens

Pete Wolfendale

5. Sapience + Care: reason and responsibility in posthuman politics

Helen Hester

6. Xeno-Patterning: predictive intuition and automated imagination

Luciana Parisi

Part III: Alienation

7. Strange Sameness: hegel, marx and the logic of estrangement

Ray Brassier

8. Alienation, Freedom and the Synthetic How

Diann Bauer

9. Accelerationism’s Queer Occulture: "or, thinking according to the alien ovum of nature"

Rebekah Sheldon

10. Elegy

Dominic Fox

Biography

James Trafford is Reader in Philosophy and Design at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His book, The Empire at Home, will be published in January 2020.



Pete Wolfendale is an independent philosopher based in the North East of England, UK. He is the author of Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon’s New Clothes (2014).

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