[eBook] [PDF] For Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care 1st Edition By Amelia DeFalco
Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of ‘turns’ – the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn – that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in short as a posthuman phenomenon. Care philosophy shares this focus on embodiment and vulnerability in its insistence on interdependence as the defining condition of human life, making it well positioned for a posthuman turn. To this end, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care draws together contemporary narrative fictions that challenge humanist conceptions of care in their imaginative depiction of more-than-human affective bonds, arguing for an expansion care philosophy’s central figure: the embodied, embedded, and encumbered ‘human’.
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