1st Edition

Posthuman and Nonhuman Entanglements in Contemporary Art and the Body

By Justyna Stępień Copyright 2022
140 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings. Drawing on critical posthumanist and new materialist thought, in this book, nonhumans become subjects of ethics,... Read more

Introduction. Unfolding Posthuman, Nonhuman and More/than/human Entanglement 1. Unfolding Body Archipelagos. From Parallelism to More/than/human Entanglements 2. Unfolding Human/Nonhuman Animal Entanglements 3. Unfolding More/than/human Entanglements in Ethical Laboratories 4. Unfolding More/than/human Performances with and for the Future Epilogue. Unfolding Novel Metaphors for More/than/human Entangled Future

Biography

Justyna Stępień is Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies and the co-founder of Posthumanities Centre □at the Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź, Poland.