Animate World

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Posthuman Ontologies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Sean Watson, UK) Watson, Sean (University of the West of England, Bristol

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The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and anti-humanisms. Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for post-humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538169773

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AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Is the Universe Alive or Dead: The Problem with Ontological Nihilism1. The Post-Structuralist and Cognitive-Behavioural Origins of Critical Posthumanism2. Transhumanism: The Post-Biological Ideology of Digital Capitalism3. Speculative Posthumanism4. The Libidinal Economy of Nihilist Posthumanism5. The Culture of Nihilism6. Indigenous Animism and the Decolonisation of Philosophy7. The Posthuman Earth8. Becoming Ecological/Posthumanist9. Animist Praxis10 Scientific Realism or Animism: The Physics and Metaphysics of the Anthropocene11. Ontological Nihilism and the ThanatopoliticsAfterword: On Animism, Metaphysics, and those Tempted to Invoke the Spectre of Romantic ReactionBibliographyAbout the Author

Watson disrupts continental philosophy in the same way that Graeber unsettled anthropology. This book is too late to prevent the destruction of the world, but just in time for those who will put it back together again. It is a eulogy for the world that was (and could have been), and a manual for ways of being in the world that will follow. Watson provides a foundation for rigorous thinking and inquiry in the daunting project of rehabilitating the pathological ontologies of the less-than-human.