Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care Defalco Amelia
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care Defalco Amelia Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address…
Specifikacia Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care Defalco Amelia
Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care Defalco Amelia
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. 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'.Fictional narratives of care between humans and robots, bioengineered 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.