The ahuman manifesto : activism for the end of the Anthropocene /

The ahuman manifesto : activism for the end of the Anthropocene /

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Author / Creator:	MacCormack, Patricia, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xi, 205 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Humanism -- 21st century. Humanistic ethics -- 21st century. Human beings -- Philosophy -- Forecasting -- 21st century. Philosophical anthropology -- 21st century. Civilization -- 21st century -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12731208

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Varying Form of Title:	Activism for the end of the Anthropocene
ISBN:	9781350081093 1350081094 9781350081109 1350081108
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-200) and index.
Summary:	"At a time when we face ecological crisis and when new technologies and cultural inventions are putting the status of "human" into question, "The Ahuman manifesto offers a sharp and original alternative to current versions of "posthuman" thought, Advancing an entirely new term and trajectory, while still interrogating the key philosophies and theories that have preceded it, Patrica MacCormack argues for a way for thinking that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning." --

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Summary:	We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the "ahuman". An alternative to "posthuman" thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning.In order to suggest vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores five key contemporary themes:· Identity· Spirituality· Art· Death· The apocalypseCollapsing activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of 'zombiedom', The Ahuman Manifesto navigates the ways in which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege. This is so that we can actively think and live viscerally, with connectivity (actual not virtual), and with passion and grace, toward a new world.
Physical Description:	xi, 205 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-200) and index.
ISBN:	9781350081093 1350081094 9781350081109 1350081108