Posthuman Ecologies

This volume offers an alternative take on critiques of both humanism as inhuman and the posthuman. It presents a differential, diffractive selection of calls to creating new territories and networks at local, global and transversal levels, always attentive to the extensive and increasingly ambiguous emergences of what we currently consider âlifeâ.
â" Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University

This is an astoundingly rich collection of essays, edited and collected by one of the major forces in posthumanist thought, and one of postcolonial theoryâs rising stars. Braidotti and Bignall have collected major figures in philosophy, geography, feminist theory and critical theory, and focused on the twenty-first centuryâs major challenges. How do we think about the future, given the presentâs range of potentials for systemic collapse? These essays embrace complexity with a stunning level of lucidity and originality.
â" Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparkes Professor of English, Penn State University

Simone Bignall and Rosi Braidottiâs Posthuman Ecologies stages a cutting-edge deployment of Deleuzeâs work in relation to complex and heterogenous systems. Politically astute in its commitment to material differences, this innovative collection foregrounds the counter-knowledges, interdisciplinarity and affirmative ethics that we so desperately need as we grapple with the posthuman condition.
â" Hannah Stark, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania

This is a rich and provocative compendium of difficult questions, valuable speculations and thoughtful, pointed answers. The contributors cut through the entanglements in this vital discussion and seek to re-establish the conversation around post-/in-/transhumanism(s) on a more fruitful ground.
â" Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature, Kingâs College London

In this volume, concepts in need of revision â" action, environment, change, response â" are elegantly placed in conversation with one another. A timely contribution to the effort of becoming-human.
â" Zornitsa Dimitrova, PhD Graduate, University of M¼nster