Questa serie indaga ciò che anima il mondo che ci circonda, approfondendo la natura complessa della vita. Collega diversi campi come la teoria queer, gli studi postcoloniali e la critica della razza, esplorando come razza e sesso plasmano la nostra comprensione del postumanesimo e dei nuovi materialismi. L'attenzione è rivolta a come vita, vitalità e animazione esistano oltre la conoscenza convenzionalmente umanistica.
Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.
By exploring the biopolitical concept through a nonanthropocentric perspective, Joseph Pugliese argues for the recognition of more-than-human entities as legitimate actors deserving of justice. He highlights the entanglement of these entities with human victims in conflict zones like Palestine and sites of US drone strikes, challenging human exceptionalism. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, Pugliese advocates for an ethico-legal framework that acknowledges ecological justice, revealing the often-overlooked impacts of human conflict on the more-than-human world.
Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility- the capacity to be affected-to expose the powerful workings of sentimental biopower in the nineteenth-century United States, uncovering a vast apparatus of sensory regulation that aimed to shape the evolution of the national population.
Jian Neo Chen examines how contemporary trans of color artists are tracking and resisting their displacement and social marginalization through new forms of cultural expression, performance, and activism.
In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization.
Amit S. Rai shows how urban South Asians employ low-cost technological workarounds and hacks known as jugaad to solve problems, navigate, and resist India's neoliberal ecologies.
Megan H. Glick considers how twentieth-century conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health, showing how efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce various forms of social inequality.