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Karl Steel’s How To Make A Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages
In one half of a pair of critical reviews looking at recent titles in animal studies, Nicole Shukin examines Karl Steel’s How to Make a Human (Steel reviews Shukin in the other half). In particular, Shukin discusses Steel’s framing of “the human” in terms of medieval violence, and she considers what that framing can offer to today’s political and ethical conversations.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/humanizing)
Malene Fonnes - 25.09.2017 - 15:31
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Cary Wolfe, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
John Bruni contends that Cary Wolfe’s latest book “Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame” discusses the “legal issues that inform our relationships with non-human animals.” Bruni writes that in doing so Wolfe dissects the process of law-making and appearing “before the law” as animals, which might be potentially harmful and eclipse the existence of animals beyond the human sphere. According to Bruni what distinguishes Wolfe’s perspective is that he does not promote any form of “ecological self-righteousness” but rather asks the question whether we need to move beyond species-based discourses that constantly pits humans and animals against each other in an essentially unwinnable impasse—to a more ethical approach that may expand the “community of living.”
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/animality)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:31
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Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
Beginning his review by reflecting on the book’s cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo’s posthuman environmentalism. Providing brief treatments of each chapter, he argues that the book’s trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between bodies and places disrupts “the very heart of what we know about ourselves.”
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/punk)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:47
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Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world": Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures
In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo’s Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/bodily)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:57
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Being Not Us
John Bruni suggests that Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection explores the various cognitive fictions of humanism and carves out a functional role for systems-influenced theory and art.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/un-mapped)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:27
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Man Saved by Wolfe
In this review of Cary Wolfe’s new essay collection, What is Posthumanism?, Neil Badmington reflects on the ebb and flow of “the posthuman” and ponders what Wolfe’s work suggests for the future of the field.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/savedbywolfe)
Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 13:32
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Postmodern, Posthuman, Post-Digital
There is also another chapter on the posthumanism in the collection: Glitch Poetics: The Posthumanities of Error by Nathan Jones.
Anna Nacher - 27.04.2018 - 14:50
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Cling-Clang-Cornelius: Digital Sound Poetry as Embodied Posthumanism
Starting from the problematic gap between the unicity of the human voice and the socio-cultural variables that are unavoidably attached to her expressions, this presentation proposes the phenomenon of ‘sound poetry’ as paradigmatic bridge between a biological reality and its posthuman condition. The underlying reasoning harks back to media artist and philosopher Norie Neumark’s remark that sound poetry like no other mode of artistic expression “stimulates reflection on the uncanny and complicated relation between embodiment, alterity, and signification” (2010). Most notably the appropriation and – literal – embodiment of electronic technologies in digital sound poetry has recently yielded a new dynamic to the performativity of poetic composition. With today’s technical possibility to sample and mediate minimal acoustic nuances in the here-and-now we are allowed a glimpse into the supplement of meaning generated by the meeting between text/script and voice/sound. Such post-human amplification of an intrinsically arch-human act accordingly finds its broader relevance broadside conventional aesthetic standards.
Carlos Muñoz - 03.10.2018 - 15:57
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Digital Sound Poetry: Peripheral Platform for Posthuman Performativity
According to Steve McCaffery (1998), sound poetry’s primal goal concerns “the liberation and promotion of phonetic and sub-phonetic features to language to the state of a materia prima for creative, subversive endeavors.” (163). Accordingly, it thrives on an embodied conflict between expectation and interpretation as it allows communicative ‘uptake’ while problematizing the communicative ‘relation.’ Or, as Brandon LaBelle (2010) argued, “sound poetry yearns for language by rupturing the very coherence of it.” The ‘techniques’ thereby employed vary widely: mounting idiosyncratic language and notational systems, performing spontaneous and improvised poetical oralities, fooling with the performer’s body to rupture the ordered movements of vocality, or indeed by appropriating new technologies and digital devices in order to disassemble, reconfigure, and ‘cobble together’ personal or imported sounds and utterances.
Vian Rasheed - 12.11.2019 - 03:47
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Post-Digital : Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review volume 1
Post-Digital : Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review volume 1
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.09.2020 - 12:28
