More-Than-Human Aesthetics

Melanie Sehgal is Director of Research at the Institute for Basic Research into the History of Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal.Alex Wilkie is Professor of Design and Societies and a Director of the Design Societies Research Unit in the Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.

“Alfred N. Whitehead’s daring protest against the ‘bifurcation of nature’ called for the liberation of aesthetics from human exceptionality. More-Than-Human Aesthetics turns this protest into a compelling multifaceted exploration. How would our practices be transformed if we recognized that none of them can be divorced from an aesthetic experience which humans share with all other inhabitants of the earth?” Isabelle Stengers, Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: Tracing More-Than-Human Aesthetics in Times of Socio- Ecological Crisis - Melanie Sehgal and Alex WilkiePART I Feeling and Experiencing2 Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s) - Michael Halewood3 Eternal Objects of Nuclear Waste Futures - Thomas P. Keating4 Geo-Narrativity: Anthropocene, Aesthetics, Forensics - Alexander Damianos5 Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race - Michael L. ThomasPART II Problematizing and (Re)Valuing6 A New Taste for Life? Value Ecologies and the Aesthetics of the Outside - Martin Savransky7 Variations on the Great Refusal via Dante and Whitehead - Cécile Malaspina8 Aesthetic Axiology: Amanda Piña’s Climatic Dances/ Danzas Climáticas - Maximilian HaasPART III Infecting and Caring9 To Err is More Than More-Than-Human: Patient Safety and the Aesthetics of a Never Event - Alex Wilkie10 Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems - Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey11 On the Aesthetics of Care/ Care of Aesthetics in Social Scientific Research - Mike MichaelPART IV (Un)Learning and Luring12 An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate Our Modes of Thought with Stengers - Didier Debaise13 Back to the Classroom: What Whitehead Took from Art, and What a New Aesthetic Paradigm Can Take from Whitehead - Nicholas Gaskill14 Schools of Feeling: Unlearning the Bifurcation of Nature Through Aesthetic Education - Melanie Sehgal