Claire Colebrook is Professor of English at Penn State University, USA

"Claire Colebrook has provided a dazzling articulation of a new line of vitalism, a fundamentally passive vitalism, that always puts life out of alignment with itself and that affirms the virtual forces of becoming-other that inhere in life. This is a breathtaking and daring book that challenges us to think about how life is to be rethought and how its contours may help us to rethink philosophy." - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA

• Introduction: The Problem of Vitalism: Active/Passive; 1. Brain, System, Model: The Affective Turn; 2. Vitalism and Theoria; 3. Inorganic Art; 4. Inorganic Vitalism; 5. The Vital Order After Theory; 6.On Becoming; 7. Living Systems, Extended Minds, Gaia; Conclusion.

Claire Colebrook is Professor of English at Penn State University, USA

"Claire Colebrook has provided a dazzling articulation of a new line of vitalism, a fundamentally passive vitalism, that always puts life out of alignment with itself and that affirms the virtual forces of becoming-other that inhere in life. This is a breathtaking and daring book that challenges us to think about how life is to be rethought and how its contours may help us to rethink philosophy." - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA

• Introduction: The Problem of Vitalism: Active/Passive; 1. Brain, System, Model: The Affective Turn; 2. Vitalism and Theoria; 3. Inorganic Art; 4. Inorganic Vitalism; 5. The Vital Order After Theory; 6.On Becoming; 7. Living Systems, Extended Minds, Gaia; Conclusion.