The Ahuman Manifesto

Activism for the end of the anthropocene

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19920340
AutoresPatricia Maccormack (autor correspondente), Rosi Braidotti
Ano2020
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe Ahuman Manifesto (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350081130
OpenAlexW4252491129
Open LibraryOL28046042M
ISBN9781350081130
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas35

We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of “human” into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the “ahuman”. An alternative to “posthuman” thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn’t dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning. In order to suggest vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores five key contemporary themes: • Identity • Spirituality • Art • Death • The apocalypse Collapsing activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and capitalist

Manifesto · Political science · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · civilization · Ethics & Moral Philosophy · Forecasting · Human beings · Humanism · Humanistic ethics · Philosophical anthropology · Philosophy · World history