The Animal Who Writes: A Posthumanist Composition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822967590)

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor--as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Marilyn M. Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. Cooper argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making.

Author: Marilyn M. Cooper
ISBN-10: 0822967596
ISBN-13: 9780822967590
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d