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Monkey Trouble The Scandal of Posthumanism

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Engaging with recent theoretical developments in speculative realism and object oriented ontology, ape and parrot language studies, along with literary texts by J.M. Coetzee, Charles Chesnutt, and Walt Whitman, and films by Alfonso Cuarón and Lars von Trier, Monkey Trouble argues that the turn towar...

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Main Author: Peterson, Christopher (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: NY Fordham University Press 2017
Subjects:
Literature
Posthumanism
speculative realism
Object Oriented Ontology
animal studies
Jacques Derrida
Edmund Husserl
Walt Whitman
J.M. Coetzee
Alfonso Cuarón
Lars von Trier
Alterity
Democracy
Immanuel Kant
Sovereignty
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Summary:Engaging with recent theoretical developments in speculative realism and object oriented ontology, ape and parrot language studies, along with literary texts by J.M. Coetzee, Charles Chesnutt, and Walt Whitman, and films by Alfonso Cuarón and Lars von Trier, Monkey Trouble argues that the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism promotes a cosmocracy that absolves one from engaging in those discriminatory decisions that condition hospitality as such. Anthropocentrism cannot be displaced through a logic of reversal that elevates immanence above transcendence, horizontality over verticality. This decentering must cultivate instead a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness.
ISBN:9780823277797
Access:Open Access

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