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[cid:D3A2E8B4-5C34-4A80-8D5E-E85DB6DC4CD3]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/multispecies-salon> The Multispecies Salon<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/multispecies-salon>
Edited by Eben Kirksey
"This timely anthology offers a substantial and engaging introduction to the field of multispecies studies, clearly presenting the core concepts of an important and influential area of scholarship, which will become increasingly central to anthropology, science studies, environmental studies, and social theory. At the same time, The Multispecies Salon is in many ways an art book. It features an extraordinary range of remarkable art projects, which are fascinating in their own right and beautifully written up."—Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
"The Multispecies Salon is an ambitious, important book, an excellent read, full of energy and imagination. I teach art and anthropology courses, and this volume will be a key pedagogical text for me. I am certain that The Multispecies Salon will also be an attractive text in science studies, environmental anthropology, and cultural studies courses. It's an enthralling collection."—George Marcus, coauthor of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history. Anthropologists have collaborated with artists and biological scientists to illuminate how diverse organisms are entangled in political, economic, and cultural systems. Contributions from influential writers and scholars, such as Dorion Sagan, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, are featured along with essays by emergent artists and cultural anthropologists.
Delectable mushrooms flourishing in the aftermath of ecological disaster, microbial cultures enlivening the politics and value of food, and nascent life forms running wild in the age of biotechnology all figure in this curated collection of essays and artifacts. Recipes provide instructions on how to cook acorn mush, make cheese out of human milk, and enliven forests after they have been clear-cut. The Multispecies Salon investigates messianic dreams, environmental nightmares, and modest sites of biocultural hope.
For additional materials see the companion website: www.multispecies-salon.org/<http://www.multispecies-salon.org/>
Eben Kirksey is a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Global Architecture of Power, also published by Duke University Press.
Duke University Press
October 2014 328pp 86 illus. (incl. 10 in color) 9780822356257 PB £17.99 now only £14.39* when you quote CSL1015MSS when you order
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[CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/plant-theory>Plant Theory<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/plant-theory>
Biopower and Vegetable Life
Jeffrey Nealon
"In this powerful and original book, Jeffrey Nealon engages some of today's urgent problems, giving us a new perspective on both the ethical issues raised by recent work in animal studies and related disciplines and the political issues at stake in any analysis of biopower and neoliberalism."—Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
"Ironic but mercifully not postmodern, patient and eminently readable, Jeffrey Nealon's book engages with and ultimately calls into question some of the guiding principles of animal studies. It is without question a singular contribution to recent research on biopolitics, animal studies, and the burgeoning field of 'plant theory.'"—Timothy Campbell, Cornell University
In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower. Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is interested in how and why this confusion predominates. Plant Theory turns to several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.
Jeffrey T. Nealon is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
Stanford University Press
October 2015 168pp 9780804796750 PB £13.99 now only £11.19* when you quote CSL1015MSS when you order
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[CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/what-animals-teach-us-about-politics> What Animals Teach Us about Politics<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/what-animals-teach-us-about-politics>
Brian Massumi
“For those ready and willing to navigate the complexity of What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Massumi is a brilliant thinker who has produced another incisive critique that is likely to elicit interesting scholarship and responses, both from his immediate interlocutors and anyone else looking for a way out of humanity.”—Liam Mayes, Montreal Review of Books
"This is a truly brilliant book, one of Brian Massumi's best. More than anyone else I have read, Massumi makes real progress in untangling the relationship between play, sympathy, politics, and animality. What Animals Teach us About Politics provides a fascinating and persuasively non-subject-centered account of sympathy, and it goes a long way toward helping us to see how the practice and theorization of 'politics' would be radically refigured within a process-ontology."—Jane Bennett, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the "primitive" state of nature and the accompanying presuppositions about instinct permeating modern thought. Massumi integrates notions marginalized by the dominant currents in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and philosophy—notions such as play, sympathy, and creativity—into the concept of nature. As he does so, his inquiry necessarily expands, encompassing not only animal behavior but also animal thought and its distance from, or proximity to, those capacities over which human animals claim a monopoly: language and reflexive consciousness. For Massumi, humans and animals exist on a continuum. Understanding that continuum, while accounting for difference, requires a new logic of "mutual inclusion." Massumi finds the conceptual resources for this logic in the work of thinkers including Gregory Bateson, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon, and Raymond Ruyer. This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthumanism, and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy, the theory of play, and the thought of Alfred North Whitehead.
Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.
Duke University Press
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On 21/10/2015 21:19, "The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list on behalf of Chrissie Wanner" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
*Apologies for cross-posting*
We're delighted to announce the launch of multispecies.net: a collaborative
website about multispecies ethnography and anthropology.
We hope the site will provide a forum for creative thinking, critical
commentary, and debate about relationships between humans and all other
forms of life; animals, insects, plants, fungi, and microbes.
We welcome submissions which consider how humans shape, and are shaped by,
relationships with other species, and which attend to the agency,
subjectivity, and interests of life beyond human species bounds.
If you have any suggestions for the site, or would like to contribute in
any way, you can email us at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
You can follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/multispeciesnet> and
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Best wishes,
Kirsty Ferrier (University of St. Andrews) Robin Irvine (University of St.
Andrews) Chrissie Wanner (University of Edinburgh) Chris Ward (University
of Nottingham)
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