"A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world"--

Cary Wolfe is Dunleive Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” and What Is Posthumanism? and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota. He edits the Posthumanities series for Minnesota.

Contents

Preface

1. In Lieu of an Introduction: A Conversation with Giovanni Aloi

Part I. Systems: Social, Biological, Ecological

2. Lose the Building: Meaning and Form in Diller and Scofidio’s Blur

3. Time as Architectural Medium: Koolhaas and Mau’s Tree City

4. The Installation That Almost Ate Me

Part II. “The Animal”

5. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing “The Animal Question” in Contemporary Art

6. Apes Like Us

7. Condors at the End of the World: Rethinking Environmental Art

8. Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction

Part III. The Biopolitical

9. What Is the Bio- of Biopolitics and Bioart?

10. No Immunity: The Biopolitical Worlds of Eija-Liisa Ahtila

11. The Miracle of the Familiar: A Conversation with Eija-Liisa Ahtila

12. The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys 

Notes

Index