Cary Wolfe is founding director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory and Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor Emeritus of English at Rice University and fellow at the Berggruen Institute. He is author of several books, including Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations and What Is Posthumanism? and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota.

"Full of potentiality and sheer cleverness, Jagged Ontologies is an impressive, important intervention that will sharpen the autopoietic–sympoietic divide. Cary Wolfe seeks to find where things might be taken, what new thoughts can be brought into being, what avenues might be opened and explored." —Grant Farred, author of The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism"Cary Wolfe's distinctive approach to biopolitics powerfully dovetails deconstruction and systems theory. With strong attention to simplistic notions of sympoiesis and individualistic neo-Darwinism, Jagged Ontologies positions itself on a lively frontier of intellectual inquiry." —Timothy Clark, author of The Value of Ecocriticism

• ContentsIntroduction: Why "Jagged"?1. What "the Animal" Can (Therefore) Teach "the Anthropocene"2. Sympoiesis Dreaming3. How (Not) to Keep the Forest Weird4. Everything Is (Not) Connected: Biopolitics and Jagged Ecologies in Big Bend5. Animality, Infirmity, Disability, Citizenship: The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys6. Posthumanism Thinks the "Political": How Autopoiesis Radicalizes Foucault7. What Species Is Multispecies Justice?NotesIndex

Cary Wolfe is founding director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory and Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor Emeritus of English at Rice University and fellow at the Berggruen Institute. He is author of several books, including Art and Posthumanism: Essays, Encounters, Conversations and What Is Posthumanism? and editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, all from Minnesota.

"Full of potentiality and sheer cleverness, Jagged Ontologies is an impressive, important intervention that will sharpen the autopoietic–sympoietic divide. Cary Wolfe seeks to find where things might be taken, what new thoughts can be brought into being, what avenues might be opened and explored." —Grant Farred, author of The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism"Cary Wolfe's distinctive approach to biopolitics powerfully dovetails deconstruction and systems theory. With strong attention to simplistic notions of sympoiesis and individualistic neo-Darwinism, Jagged Ontologies positions itself on a lively frontier of intellectual inquiry." —Timothy Clark, author of The Value of Ecocriticism

• ContentsIntroduction: Why "Jagged"?1. What "the Animal" Can (Therefore) Teach "the Anthropocene"2. Sympoiesis Dreaming3. How (Not) to Keep the Forest Weird4. Everything Is (Not) Connected: Biopolitics and Jagged Ecologies in Big Bend5. Animality, Infirmity, Disability, Citizenship: The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys6. Posthumanism Thinks the "Political": How Autopoiesis Radicalizes Foucault7. What Species Is Multispecies Justice?NotesIndex