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oapen-20.500.12657-256092022-07-21T07:50:15Z Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome object-oriented ontology posthumanism cultural studies materialism thing studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere objects. They act; they withdraw; they make demands; they connect within lively networks that might foster a new humanism, or that might proceed with indifference towards human affairs. Through what ethics do we respond to these activities and forces? To what futures do these creatures and objects invite us, especially when they appear within the texts and cultures of the “distant” past? 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:44:40Z 2020-04-01T10:44:40Z 2012 book 1004486 OCN: 859753584 9780615625355 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25609 eng application/pdf n/a 1004486.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780615625355 ScholarLed 295 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere objects. They act; they withdraw; they make demands; they connect within lively networks that might foster a new humanism, or that might proceed with indifference towards human affairs. Through what ethics do we respond to these activities and forces? To what futures do these creatures and objects invite us, especially when they appear within the texts and cultures of the “distant” past?
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