Books in the Posthumanities series

A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy

Speech Begins after Death is a transcript of critic Claude Bonnefoy's interview with Michel Foucault in which he reflects on his approach to the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing. Never before published in English, this is one of Foucault's most personal statements about his life and writing.

Links the political critique of sovereign power with ecological concerns

This deeply personal yet intellectually groundbreaking work develops the idea of companion species and deftly explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of animal-human encounters.

"Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology"--

The essential junkiness of our culture and biology.

Power and counterpower in the space of silence

Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors weidentify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong tohumans. Combining serious scholarship with humor, this book poses twenty-sixquestions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what theythink about, and what they want.

Translation of: Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik.

A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science's claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth

Challenging the view that caring is only human

The influential work of speculative biology-and a key document in posthumanist studies-now available in a new, accurate English translation.

Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"-entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.