Alien Vectors: Accelerationism, Xenofeminism, Inhumanism: Accelerationism, Xenofeminism, Inhumanism

ISBN-13: 9781032087801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

James Trafford; Pete Wolfendale

Opis

This book analyses the notion of the alien in contemporary philosophy, thinking through politics, posthumanism, and alienation beyond and across the circuitry of thought that would otherwise enfold the alien in its regressive trappings. It was first published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction – Alien Vectors: accelerationism, xenofeminism, inhumanism  Part I: Politics  1. Strategy Without a Strategiser  2. Platform Cosmologies: enabling resituation  3. Empire’s New Clothes: after the “peaceful violence” of neoliberal coloniality  Part II: Posthumanism  4. The Reformatting of Homo Sapiens  5. Sapience + Care: reason and responsibility in posthuman politics  6. Xeno-Patterning: predictive intuition and automated imagination  Part III: Alienation  7. Strange Sameness: hegel, marx and the logic of estrangement  8. Alienation, Freedom and the Synthetic How  9. Accelerationism’s Queer Occulture: “or, thinking according to the alien ovum of nature”  10. Elegy

O autorze

James Trafford is Reader in Philosophy and Design at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His book, The Empire at Home, will be published in January 2020.

Pete Wolfendale is an independent philosopher based in the North East of England, UK. He is the author of Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon’s New Clothes (2014).