Art and Posthumanism

Cary Wolfe is Dunleive Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” and What Is Posthumanism? and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota. He edits the Posthumanities series for Minnesota.

• ContentsPreface1. In Lieu of an Introduction: A Conversation with Giovanni AloiPart I. Systems: Social, Biological, Ecological2. Lose the Building: Meaning and Form in Diller and Scofidio’s Blur3. Time as Architectural Medium: Koolhaas and Mau’s Tree City4. The Installation That Almost Ate MePart II. “The Animal”5. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing “The Animal Question” in Contemporary Art6. Apes Like Us7. Condors at the End of the World: Rethinking Environmental Art8. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of ExtinctionPart III. The Biopolitical9. What Is the Bio- of Biopolitics and Bioart?10. No Immunity: The Biopolitical Worlds of Eija-Liisa Ahtila11. The Miracle of the Familiar: A Conversation with Eija-Liisa Ahtila12. The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys NotesIndex

"Conversational in style yet highly ambitious in its ideas, this inspiring collection explores different ways of being in the world for humans and nonhumans alike. Cary Wolfe provides a unique approach to thinking both about art and with art-but also a new possibility for seeing and sensing the world through art."-Joanna Zylinska, King’s College London "Cary Wolfe is one of the few animal studies scholars thoroughly fluent in the complex language of contemporary visual arts culture, and he brings his talents for exquisite prose to Art and Posthumanism. I can think of no more valuable volume for makers engaged in the culture of interspecific ecological entanglements."-Mark Dion, visual artist "This important book provides readers with fascinating, crisscrossing paths into Wolfe’s entanglement of contemporary art world and posthumanist theory."-Ecozon@