Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8066286
AutoresAmelia Defalco (0000-0003-2021-5714, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Fecha de publicación2023-08-24
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaCurious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780192886125.001.0001
OpenAlexW4386140140
Open LibraryOL48175226M
ISBN9780192886125
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas57

Curious Kin reimagines care theory to account for the complexity of posthuman interdependencies. It does so by collecting twenty-first-century texts that imagine unconventional caregiving that challenges the anthropocentric assumptions of humanist care models and offer provocative alternatives that convey the messy complexity of posthuman care. The book analyzes these contemporary literary and cinematic speculations of more-than-human companionship in relation to numerous critical discourses—posthumanism, care philosophy, feminist materialism, affect theory, critical race theory, Indigenous studies—in order to propose a dynamic model of posthuman care that addresses humans and nonumans as mutually constituting, vulnerable, embodied, and embedded companion species

Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Commodification · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Materialism · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Philosophy