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The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human book cover

1st Edition

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human

By Fabienne Collignon Copyright 2023
208 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascination—in relation to subject formation. The book is driven by a central dynamic between form and formlessness, further staging an investigation of the phenomenon of fascination using Lacanian psychoanalysis, suggesting that the psychodrama of subject... Read more
  1. Introduction: Insectile Subjectile

    2. Form

  2. Homme-Insecte: Form, Typus, Fetish

  3. The Insectile Informe: H.P. Lovecraft and the Deliquescence of Form

  4. Hotel-Daddy-Wasp-Machine

    5. Informe

  5. Othered Form and Insectile Subjectile: Under the Skin

    6.

  6. Relations of the Third Kind

  7. Still Life as Extinction Event

  8. Coda: Wolfman, Vienna, Larva

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Fabienne Collignon is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research interests are critical theory, in particular theories of technology, subject formation, the ‘in-human’. She has published articles in Textual Practice, C-Theory, Journal of American Studies, Orbit, Configurations, New Formations. Her first monograph, Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 and maps the technological unconscious of the Cold War. From September 2018 to February 2020, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Universität zu Köln, during which time she researched scenes of the insectile.

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