Anthropoforming

Reframing Human and Nonhuman Relations in Recent Speculative Fiction

AvPaul Piatkowski,Douglas A. Vakoch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This open access book examines the relations between human and nonhuman subjects in recent literary works through three distinct parts of what the author have called anthropoforming. The first focuses on the relationship between human groups and the geological planet, looking in particular at how the nonconscious planetary has reflexive responses to unrestrained processes of consumption and waste expulsion. The second part moves into physiological connections between human groups and nonhuman inhabitants of the planet and examines how the nonhuman relationships here reshape the way one understands what the human is and how that human relates to a wider world. As these relationships sometimes force actual evolutions, this part of the project investigates how evolution comes about due to a changing relationship first with the planet, then the plant kingdom, and finally with the technological. In the final, third part these are realized as the nonhuman relationship in built and naturally forming ecologies restructure the human relationship to the total planet, seen here as a cognizant entity—a geological consciousness.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798216449584

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Paul D. Piatkowski is adjunct professor of English at High Point University.

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION: THE WORLD IS NOT OURS ANYMORE (AND IT NEVER WAS)World Building and World FieldingStepping into and through AnthropoformingPART I: PLANETARY THINKING, PLANETARY RETHINKING: A LARGE- SCALE LOOK AT ANTHROPOFORMINGChapter 1. Wasted and Dead: Body Matters in Gina Ochsner’s The Russian Dreambook of Color and FlightGhost in the Government’s Shell: Historical Echoes in a Machinic AssemblageConsumption, Waste, and the Scat of the PlanetChapter 2. Waste Conglomerate to “Plastiglomerate”: Orbits of Anthropoformation in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the RainforestReduction and ConsumptionEverywhere, a WastelandPART II: EVOLVING AND REVOLVING: PLANET, PLANT, MACHINEChapter 3. Backwards Forward: Growing Pains on a Planetary LevelDropping the Illusion of Anthro-ControlPerson Re/Making and the Subverting of Settler ScaleChapter 4. My Vegetable Cousin: Evolving the People’s PresenceRhizome Thinking and the Wood Wide WebMaster of the Plan(e)tChapter 5. Evolving in the Clouds: Technology’s “Next Generation”Transhuman Augmentation and the Art of the ArtificialBuilt Ecologies and the Birth of Deep MindsPART III: GEOLOGIC CONSCIOUSNESS: THE TERRACENTRICChapter 6. Battle of the Planets: Terracentricity in Reza Negarestani’s CyclonopediaRemembering—and Forgetting—FoucaultPlanets in Orbit and Post-Anthrocontrol: Scale, etc.Chapter 7. Conversations with Old Man Earth: Democratizing Animacy in N.K. JemisinBiopoliticking: Old Man Earth, or Anthropos DeformedTalking [to] Dirt: Anthropos and Terra in DialogueCONCLUSION: ASSEMBLAGE REQUIREDREFERENCES