{"product_id":"the-ahuman-manifesto-patricia-maccormack-9781350081093","title":"The Ahuman Manifesto Activism for the End of the Anthropocene","description":"We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of \"human\" into question. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the \"ahuman\". An alternative to \"posthuman\" thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to suggest vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores five key contemporary themes: \u003cbr\u003e- Identity\u003cbr\u003e- Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e- Art\u003cbr\u003e- Death\u003cbr\u003e- The apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollapsing activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of 'zombiedom', \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAhuman Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the ways in which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege. This is so that we can actively think and live viscerally, with connectivity (actual not virtual), and with passion and grace, toward a new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia MacCormack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350081094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350081093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Patricia MacCormack","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43980256837887,"sku":"9781350081093","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08702edc-ff8f-482a-a87c-e6c1f8d466ae.jpg?v=1683248866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ahuman-manifesto-patricia-maccormack-9781350081093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}