preface Introduction: The End as Affirmation Chapter 1: Wither Identity? Chapter 2: All Action is Art Chapter 3: Interregnum Chapter 4: Occulture: Secular Spirituality Chapter 5: Embracing Death Chapter 6: The Future in the Age of the Apocalypse bibliography index
A radical political and philosophical manifesto defending and promoting a new term, the Ahuman.
Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of Cinesexuality (2008), Post-Human Ethics (2012) and editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury, 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (2017) and the upcoming Ecophilosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Patricia MacCormack goes relentessly beyond ”just” deconstructing
anthropocentrism and dismantling multispecies extinction caused by
human dominance in the Anthropocene. The manifesto is not only
theorizing, but com/passionately calling for direct abolitionist
action for the other at the expense of the (human) self. Trembling
with joyful energy and critically affirmative insights, this
manifesto encourages us to engage in ahuman arts&activist
practices, inspired by queer feminist (secular) spirituality), and
death activism.
*Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University,
Sweden*
This beautiful book is both a passionate, insightful meditation on
the world we actually live in, and a radical call to action. Is it
even possible for us to stop being human, to let multiple beings
flourish without reducing them to means for our own selfish ends?
Reading this book, thinking with it and about it, and responding
openly to it, is absolutely essential.
*Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State
University, USA*
This book is a delightful provocation and invitation: to imagine a
world without humans and to think of what we can do to get there.
It is an urgent call for action. A joyful, lucid, fiercely
intelligent call to readers to hope and work for a future not for
themselves, but for the thriving of all nonhuman life. Engaging
with this book will be a transformative experience. One cannot see
the world or oneself in the same way after reading it.
*Christine Daigle, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the
Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, Canada*
Patricia MacCormack’s splendid refusal to nuance her intent in The
Ahuman Manifesto will both intrigue and infuriate. As a vegan
abolitionist/extinctionist, she provides an unrelenting and
exacting take down of the violent self-interest of the human
species, and offers a call to ethical action best described as
eating the Anthropocene.
*Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge
Production, Stockholm University, Sweden*
[A]n inspiring book ... [with] a more intellectual and
philosophical approach to circling and testing questions.
*MO Magazine (Bloomsbury Translation)*
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