In American literature, for example, we can trace this concern back at least to Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. The ubiquity of nonhuman matters of concern in the twenty- first century should not obscure the fact that concern for the nonhuman has a long Western genealogy, with examples at least as far back as Lucretius’s De Rerum Naturae and its subsequent uptake in the early modern period.1 The concern with nonhumans is not new in Anglo-American thought. Even the new paradigm of the Anthropocene, which names the human as the dominant influence on climate since industrialism, participates in the nonhuman turn in its recognition that humans must now be understood as climatological or geological forces on the planet that operate just as nonhumans would, independent of human will, belief, or desires. Given that almost every problem of note that we face in the twenty-first century entails engagement with nonhumans-from climate change, drought, and famine to biotechnology, intellectual property, and privacy to genocide, terrorism, and war-there seems no time like the present to turn our future attention, resources, and energy toward the nonhuman broadly understood. To address the nonhuman turn, a group of scholars were brought in to help lay out some of the research emphases and methodologies that are key to the emerging interdisciplinary field of twenty-first century studies. The conference from which this book emerged, hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was organized to explore how the nonhuman turn might provide a way forward for the arts, humanities, and social sciences in light of the difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. Each of these approaches, and the nonhuman turn more generally, is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a turn toward and concern for the nonhuman, understood variously in terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, organic and geophysical systems, materiality, or technologies. This book seeks to name, characterize, and therefore to consoli date a wide variety of recent and current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences. HansenĦ Crisis, Crisis, Crisis or, The Temporality of Networks Wendy Hui Kyong ChunĨ Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New Materialism Rebekah Sheldonĩ Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented Philosophy Jane BennettĪcknowledgmentsĂ41 ContributorsĂ43 IndexĂ45 21 20 19 18 17 16 15Ĭontents Introductionvii Richard Grusin 1 The Supernormal Animal Brian MassumiĢ Consequences of Panpsychism Steven ShaviroĤ The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry Ian Bogostĥ Our Predictive Condition or, Prediction in the Wild Mark B. BD560.N66 2015 141-dc23 2014019922 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. (21st century studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The nonhuman turn / Richard Grusin, editor, Center for 21st Century Studies.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Copyright 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. 2 (Spring 2012): 225–33 copyright 2012 New Literary History, University of Virginia reprinted with permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press. An earlier version of chapter 9 was published as Jane Bennett, “Systems and Things: A Response to Graham Harman and Timothy Morton,” New Literary History 43, no. copyright 2011 Theory, Culture, and Society, SAGE Publications. 6 (2011): 91–112 reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications, Ltd., London, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Īn earlier version of chapter 6 was published as Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or Sovereignty and Networks,” Theory, Culture, and Society 28, no. Nonhuman Turn Richard Grusin, Editor Center for 21st Century Studies
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