Wolfe, Cary.

What is posthumanism? / Cary Wolfe. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010. - xxxiv, 357 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Posthumanities series ; v. 8 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meaning and event; or, systems theory and the reconstruction of deconstruction -- Language, representation, and species: cognitive science versus deconstruction -- Flesh and finitude: bioethics and the philosophy of the living -- Animal studies, disciplinarity, and the (post)humanities -- Learning from Temple Grandin: animal studies, disability studies, and who comes after the subject -- From dead meat to glow-in-the-dark bunnies: the animal question in contemporary art -- When you can't believe your eyes (or voice): dancer in the dark -- Lose the building: form and system in contemporary architecture -- Emerson's romanticism, Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity -- The idea of observation at Key West: systems theory, poetry, and form beyond formalism -- The digital, the analog, and the spectral: echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts.

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Humanism.
Aesthetics--Philosophy.
Deconstruction.

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