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The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies
The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies
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The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and anti-humanisms.
Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for post-humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.
Author: Sean Watson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 01/22/2026
Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781538169773
Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for post-humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.
Author: Sean Watson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 01/22/2026
Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781538169773
