Life in the Posthuman Condition

S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus of Drama at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Performing Statelessness in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2002); The Dynamic World of Finnish Theatre (Like Press, 2006). His edited and co-edited books include Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (Oxford University Press, 2010); Deleuze and Beckett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies (Routledge 2016). Audronė Žukauskaitė is Chief Researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her publications include From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (2016, in Lithuanian) and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (2011, in Lithuanian). She co-edited Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, (Oxford University Press, 2010), Deleuze and Beckett, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, (Routledge, 2016).

• Forms of Life in the Posthuman Condition: An Introduction, Audronė Žukauskaitė and S. E. Wilmer Part I: Life Beyond the Anthropocene1. Anthropocene Desperation in Gaian Context, Bruce Clarke 2. Making Worlds Beyond Human Scale and Perspective, Małgorzata Sugiera3. For Whom is Apocalypse a New Idea?: Thoughts on Staging the End, Patricia Ybarra 4. Phenomenology of Waste in the Anthropocene, Mintautas Gutauskas5. Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence, T.J. DemosPart II: Human and Non-Human Interactions6. On the Punctuation of Organisms: The Case of Helmuth Plessner, Graham Harman7. Eco-Translation and Inter-Species Communication in the Anthropocene, by Anna Barcz and Michael Cronin 8. On Zoe and Spider Life: Studio Tomás Saraceno’s Working Objects in the Critical Posthumanities, Jussi Parikka9. The Beaver, a Partisan Fighting for the Survival of the Planet, Agnė Narušytė　Part III: Forms of Life and New Ontologies10. Jagged Ontologies in The Anthropocene, or, The Five C’s, Cary Wolfe11. Materialism, the Spiritual, and the Scalar, John Ó Maoilearca12. What’s the Matter with Life?, Thomas Nail13. Forms of Life: Simondon, Ruyer, Malabou, Audronė Žukauskaitė14. Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips, Catherine Malabou

The disciplinary breadth of this new collection should be abundantly clear (...) the volume also acts as a useful reader for those looking for an introduction to posthumanist scholarly themes, and challenges even those readers with expertise or experience in one or several of the areas represented to engage with adjacent disciplinary perspectives.