Beschreibung:
This book defines a posthuman approach as one that has a starting point in complexity thinking, promotes a non-Newtonian approach to the study of the social world, and advocates a non-anthropocentric perspective, considering various interpretations of the term 'emancipation.'
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Emancipation and its critics; Chapter 3 A politics of enchantment: the power and fragility of things; Chapter 4 A politics of attachment: actor-network theory; Chapter 5 How to change a complex world; Chapter 6 Critical posthumanism and the lives of others; Chapter 7 Creaturely politics:beyond the imperial human; Chapter 8 Towards posthumanist emancipation - a terraist manifesto; Bibliography; Index