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More-Than-Human Aesthetics

Ventures Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature

Edited by Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie

Published

Apr 30, 2024

Page count

240 pages

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Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

ISBN

978-1529227789

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Apr 30, 2024

Page count

240 pages

Browse the series

Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

ISBN

978-1529227802

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
More-Than-Human Aesthetics

1. Introduction: Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: Tracing More-Than-Human Aesthetics in Times of Socio-Ecological Crisis - Sehgal and Wilkie

Part 1: Feeling & Experience

2. Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics and Our World(s) - Halewood

3. Eternal Objects of Nuclear Waste Futures - Keating

4. Geo-narrativity: Anthropocene, Aesthesis, Forensics - Damianos

5. Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race - Thomas

Part 2: Problematising & (Re)Valuing

6. A New Taste for Life?: Value Ecologies and the Aesthetics of the Outside- Savransky

7. Variations on the Great Refusal via Dante & Whitehead - Malaspina

8. Aesthetic Axiology: Amanda Piña’s Climatic Dances/Danzas Climaticas - Haas

Part 3: Infecting & Caring

9. To Err is More Than More-than-human: Patient Safety and the Aesthetics of a Never Event - Wilkie

10. Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems - Fuller & Goffey

11. On the Aesthetics of Care/care of Aesthetics in Social Scientific Research - Michael

Part 4: (Un)Learning & Luring

12. An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate our Modes of Thought with Stengers - Debaise

13. Back to the Classroom: What Whitehead Took from Art, and What a New Aesthetic Paradigm Can Take from Whitehead - Gaskill

14. Schools of Feeling: Unlearning the Bifurcation of Nature through Aesthetic Education - Sehgal