{"product_id":"curious-kin-in-fictions-of-posthuman-care-9780192886125","title":"Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care","description":"Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in short as a posthuman phenomenon. Care philosophy shares this focus on embodiment and vulnerability in its insistence on interdependence as the defining condition of human life, making it well positioned for a posthuman turn. To this end, \u003cem\u003eCurious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care\u003c\/em\u003e draws together contemporary narrative fictions that challenge humanist conceptions of care in their imaginative depiction of more-than-human affective bonds, arguing for an expansion care philosophy's central figure: the embodied, embedded, and encumbered 'human'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFictional narratives of care between humans and robots, bioengineered creatures, clones, nonhuman animals, aliens or inanimate things, highlight the limits of humanist ethical models' capacity to register and accommodate posthuman relational intimacies, while gesturing towards a model of care able to accommodate networked interdependencies that extend beyond the human realm. Texts by Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Louisa Hall, Eva Hornung, Kazuo Ishiguro, Bhanu Kapil, and Jesmyn Ward, along with films and television programmes like \u003cem\u003eRobot and Frank\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eReal Humans\u003c\/em\u003e, depict a range of scenarios in which more-than-human care relations not only supersede human-human relationships, but suggest new human\/animal\/machine ways of being that offer novel insights into the possible presents and futures of posthuman care. \u003cem\u003eCurious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how these fictions do their own theorizing, imagining the politics, ethics and aesthetics of specific, contextualized scenarios of posthuman contact and companionship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterweaving posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, \u003cem\u003eCurious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care\u003c\/em\u003e offers generative visions of care that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies, behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain life in more-than-human worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmelia DeFalco, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Contemporary Literature, University of Leeds\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmelia DeFalco is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eUncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eImagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eEthics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro\u003c\/em\u003e (2018).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50456971346194,"sku":"9780192886125","price":94.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5601077-babe-4df4-ad66-f95f07ee1453.jpg?v=1729919767","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/curious-kin-in-fictions-of-posthuman-care-9780192886125","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}