Radical Animism

Jemma Deer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, USA.

Not only does Radical Animism dig deep into the roots of animism and reveal its relations to climate change and other disquieting (s)cenes of the Anthropos, but it does so by means of seismic analyses of texts from Kafka to Woolf, from Shakespeare to Freud, that shout aloud Jemma Deer’s claim that 'nonliving forces read and write'. This book is just asking to be arrested.

• Introduction 1. Radical Animism: Climate Change and Other Transformations2. Surviving the Anthropocene: Revolutionary Rhythms3. Animals at the End of the World: The Evolution of Life and Language4. Hatching: Psychoanalysis and the Textual UnconsciousConclusionNotes ReferencesIndexConclusionNotes ReferencesIndex