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Category Archives: Nonhuman Life
Three Animals At Play
Most biologists have assumed that play has indeed had some constructive purpose in species and individual evolution, and their advocacy is itself a much grander conceptualization than any modern attempts to rationalize human play simply as growth or socialization. The … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, games, nonhuman life, nonhumans, play
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Thinking with Fungus
To swing back to literal fungus, the intertwining of life and death has long been a mark of fungoid existence, with the death and darkness of forests being populated by fungus which thrives in the hollow remnants of more majestic … Continue reading
Posted in Nonhuman Life, Theory
Tagged ben woodard, fungus, slime dynamics, thinking with fungus
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Trouble in the Neighborhood
This morning I did what I do on Mondays and walked over to a local coffee shop that is almost always filled with white men in their fifties complaining to other white men in their fifties about things that will … Continue reading
Rancière on the Pure Nonsense of Life
The notes disappear in smoke, and the raised fist of the infant – a new kind of messiah different from Bartleby/Deleuze – celebrates, for all science, the hymn of life obstinately pursuing its own nonsense. Literary fiction has embraced the … Continue reading
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Tagged jacques ranciere, life, nonhuman life, quote, theory
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Thacker on Life
This third kind of life, the”nameless thing” so often described by Lovecraft, is a paradigm for the concept of life today. The concept of life encompasses so much, from the most reductive biological viewpoint to the most open-ended ethical or … Continue reading
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Tagged eugene thacker, life, nonhuman life, quote
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Nonhuman Life: Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude
This post is part of a series of posts that I am writing in conjunction with an independent study I am taking that is based around the concept of nonhuman life. You can read more about it here. Up front: After … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, nonhuman life, nonhumans, philosophy, quentin miellassoux
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Nonhuman Life: Announcement and Book List
View this post on Instagram A post shared by CMRNKNZLMN (@cmrnknzlmn) This semester I will be taking an independent study on the concept of “nonhuman life.” As a part of that, I have decided to make my weekly notes, small … Continue reading
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