Key Essays: Mapping the Contemporary in Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032001524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 130 str.

Johnny Rodger

Opis

This book examines a wide range of these essays on topics such as posthumanism, racism, feminism, necropolitics, Anthropocene, gender, global north/south, neo and de-colonialism, universals, borders and limits, interspecies relations, blackness, cosmopolitics, epistemology, addiction and so on.

　

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas  2. Blackness Matters – Denise Ferreira da Silva  3. The Superpositioning of Cuteness – Sianne Ngai  4. How Matter matters – Karen Barad  5. Posthumanism – Rosi Braidotti  6. Companion Species – Anna Tsing  7. Feminism and Happiness – Sara Ahmed  8. A Pharmacopornographic Pandemic – Paul B Preciado  9. Epistemologies of the Global South – Boaventura de Sousa Santos  10. Counter Forensics – Eyal Weizmann  11. Necropolitics – Achille Mbembe  12. The Undercommons – Moten and Harney  13. Cosmopolitics – Emily Apter  14. Comrades in Time – Boris Groys  15. The Mentality of the Anthropocene – Cathérine Malabou  Afterword

O autorze

Johnny Rodger is Professor of Urban Literature at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. He publishes both fiction and criticism. He is the author of Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity (Routledge, 2015).