Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xiv

Forms of Life in the Posthuman Condition: An Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Life Beyond the Anthropocene

pp 13-14

1 - Anthropocene Desperation in Gaian Context

pp 15-32

2 - Making Worlds Beyond Human Scale and Perspective

pp 33-52

3 - For Whom is Apocalypse a New Idea?: Thoughts on Staging the End

pp 53-70

4 - Phenomenology of Waste in the Anthropocene

pp 71-86

5 - Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence

pp 87-108

Part II - Human and Non-Human Interactions

pp 109-110

6 - On the Punctuation of Organisms: The Case of Helmuth Plessner

pp 111-129

7 - Eco-Translation and Interspecies Communication in the Anthropocene

pp 130-148

8 - On Zoē and Spider Life: Studio Tomás Saraceno’s Working Objects in the Critical Posthumanities

pp 149-172

9 - The Beaver, a Partisan Fighting for the Survival of the Planet

pp 173-192

Part III - Forms of Life and New Ontologies

pp 193-194

10 - Jagged Ontologies in The Anthropocene, or, The Five Cs

pp 195-221

11 - Materialism, the Spiritual and the Scalar

pp 222-240

12 - What’s the Matter with Life?

pp 241-260

13 - Forms of Life: Simondon, Ruyer, Malabou

pp 261-279

14 - Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips

pp 280-288

Index

pp 289-298