What If Culture Was Nature All Along? by Kirby, Vicki

What If Culture Was Nature All Along? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474437394)

Vendor: Vicki Kirby
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$37.95
$37.95
$37.95
Subtotal: $37.95
What If Culture Was Nature All Along? by Kirby, Vicki

What If Culture Was Nature All Along?

$37.95
What If Culture Was Nature All Along? by Kirby, Vicki

What If Culture Was Nature All Along?

$37.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention - climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects - tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, questions about ontology have come to eclipse, and even eschew, those of epistemology.

While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, "there is no outside text" as "there is no outside nature." What if nature has always been literate, numerate, social? And what happens to "the human" if its exceptional identity and status is conceded quantum, non-local and ecological implication?

Author: Vicki Kirby
ISBN-10: 1474437397
ISBN-13: 9781474437394
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.50w x 0.70d
By Vicki Kirby
By Vicki Kirby
x
Vicki Kirby is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales. The motivating question in her research is the riddle of the nature/culture division because so many political and ethical evaluations and decisions are configured in terms of this opposition. Her books include Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Duke 2011); Judith Butler: Live Theory (Continuum 2006) and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal (1997).

Recently Viewed Products