Table of Contents

Meandering 1: In lieu of a Preface

Introduction: By way of Getting Started

Meandering 2: Land Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: The Transjective—A Posthumanist Material Feminist Ontology

Meandering 3: Charlie and Me

Chapter 2: Our Polyp-Being

Meandering 4: Feeling/Being Out of Place

Chapter 3: Affective Fabric and Collective Agency

Meandering 5: Inoculation

Chapter 4: Of Selves and Agents

Meandering 6: Inosculation

Meandering 7: 4am By the Train Tracks

Chapter 5: Vulnerability

Meandering 8: World in Turmoil

Chapter 6: Manifold Toxicity

Meandering 9: Cohabitating

Chapter 7: Ethical Thriving

References

Promotional Information

A radical new posthuman theory focusing on vulnerability as an liberating concept.

About the Author

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director, Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. She is the editor of the series Posthuman Practice (Bloomsbury).

Reviews

Drawing inspiration from non-human critters such as coral polyps and an insistent bee, Posthumanist Vulnerability explores what it means to be vulnerable and agentic – transjective – beings, and how they may teach humans ethical lessons in unlearning human exceptionalism. This is a truly wonderful book, full of new, affirmative posthumanist insight.
*Nina Lykke, Poet and Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark*

Daigle’s Posthumanist Vulnerability is a timely philosophical monograph, highlighting the affirmative potential of multispecies vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. Bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, Deleuzoguattarian thought, and affect theory, Daigle dethrones the human subject and convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability.
*Evelien Geerts, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK*