{"product_id":"inanimation-david-wills-9780816698868","title":"Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life Volume 35","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInanimation\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In \u003ci\u003eProsthesis, \u003c\/i\u003e Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the body itself. In \u003ci\u003eDorsality, \u003c\/i\u003e he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human. \u003ci\u003eInanimation\u003c\/i\u003e proceeds by taking literally the idea of inanimate or inorganic forms of life. Starting from a seemingly naïve question about what it means to say texts \"live on\" or have a \"life of their own,\" \u003ci\u003eInanimation\u003c\/i\u003e develops a new theory of the inanimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInanimation \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh account of what life is and the ethical and political consequences that follow from this conception. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's observation that \"the idea of life and afterlife in works of art should be regarded with an entirely unmetaphorical objectivity,\" the book challenges the coherence and limitations of \"what lives,\" arguing that there is no clear opposition between a live animate and dead inanimate. Wills identifies three major forms of inorganic life: autobiography, translation, and resonance. Informed by Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, he explores these forms through wide-ranging case studies. He brings his panoptic vision to bear on thinkers (Descartes, Freud, Derrida, Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Roland Barthes), writers and poets (Hélène Cixous, Paul Celan, William Carlos Williams, Ernst Jünger, James Joyce, Georges Bataille), and visual artists (Jean-François Millet, Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Klee). With panache and gusto, Wills discovers life-forms well beyond textual remainders and translations, in such disparate \"places\" as the act of thinking, the death drive, poetic blank space, recorded bird songs, the technology of warfare, and the heart stopped by love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Wills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816698864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816698868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"David Wills","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086952542463,"sku":"9780816698868","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8361e3a9-f37b-4a25-bbbc-1de3277d2bf7.jpg?v=1769097445","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inanimation-david-wills-9780816698868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}