Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Stacy Alaimo
Abstract
Exposed argues for a material feminist posthumanism that departs from the predominant modes of humanist transcendence in theory, science, consumerism, and popular culture. Featuring three sections, the book calls for an environmental stance in which humanity thinks, feels, and acts as the very stuff of the world. As a work within the environmental humanities, it grapples with climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, ocean conservation, environmental activism, and the depiction of the anthropocene. And as a study in new materialism it focuses on how the materiality of human bodies provoke ... More
Exposed argues for a material feminist posthumanism that departs from the predominant modes of humanist transcendence in theory, science, consumerism, and popular culture. Featuring three sections, the book calls for an environmental stance in which humanity thinks, feels, and acts as the very stuff of the world. As a work within the environmental humanities, it grapples with climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, ocean conservation, environmental activism, and the depiction of the anthropocene. And as a study in new materialism it focuses on how the materiality of human bodies provoke modes of posthumanist pleasure, environmental protest, and a sense of immersion within the strange agencies that constitute the world.
Keywords:
Environmentalism,
Anthropocene,
New Materialism,
Nonhumanism,
Cultural Studies,
Posthumanism,
Feminist Theory,
Gender Studies,
Material Feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816621958 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816621958.001.0001 |
