Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process After Deleuze - Paperback

by Rosi Braidotti (Editor), Simone Bignall (Editor)

The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary capitalist geopolitics and biotechnologies of control. Understanding the potential for such resistance in the posthuman condition requires urgent new thinking about the nature of human influence in complex interactional systems, and about the nature of such systems when conceived in non-anthropocentric way. Through specific readings and uses of Deleuze's conceptual apparatus, this volume examines the operation of human-actioned systems as complex and heterogeneous arenas of affection and accountability. This exciting collection extends non-humanist concepts for understanding reality, agency and interaction in dynamic ecologies of reciprocal determination and influence. The outcome is a vital new theorisation of human scope, responsibility and potential in the posthuman condition.

Author Biography

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her most recent books are The Posthuman (Polity, 2013), Nomadic Subjects (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Nomadic Theory (Columbia University Press, 2011) www.rosibraidotti.com

Simone Bignall is Senior Researcher in politics, based in the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University in Australia. Her book publications include PostcolonialAgency: Critique and Constructivism (Edinburgh 2010); Deleuze and the Postcolonial (with Paul Patton); Agamben and Colonialism (with Marcelo Svirsky); and Deleuze and Pragmatism (with Sean Bowden and Paul Patton).She is currently completing a book on Posthuman Desire and a project titled Excolonialism: Ethics after Enjoyment.