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Speculative Flesh Ecologies

Flesh, Indistinction and Speculative Fiction

Av Samantha Hind

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This book introduces the original rubric of ‘speculative flesh ecologies’ by bringing together the concept of ‘flesh’, the ethical approach of ‘indistinction’, and a strand of twenty-first-century speculative fictioninterested in human and nonhuman ontologies and ethical relationships. It challenges human/nonhuman distinctions, and explores the wide range of multi-species possibilities imagined by the ‘speculative flesh ecologies’ of contemporary speculative fiction. Through five kinds of flesh in speculative fiction – human, animal, plant, thing and cultured – this book demonstrates the value of ‘speculative flesh ecologies’ as an approach for understanding and embracing the seemingly disparate ontologies of humans and nonhumans, making present new forms of ethical thinking that explore what it means to live as, with and through other fleshy beings.
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Samantha Hind is an independent scholar and PhD graduate from the University of Sheffield. Her research explores ideas of flesh, conservation and technology in human/non-human relationships in contemporary speculative fiction.

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Hind’s Speculative Flesh Ecologies takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through different types of flesh – such as animal, vegetal, and cultured – to challenge prevailing assumptions about human exceptionalism and the contingent boundaries we place around what we consider appropriate to eat. Using a suite of speculative fictions, she shows how these texts explore different approaches to “fleshiness” to facilitate an examination not only of a novel aspect of posthuman thought but also of the kinds of cultural work speculative fiction does. Definitely a book to consume and chew over.

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