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Author(s): Ann Weinstone
ISBN(s): 9780816641475, 0816641471
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.06 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0816641471 

ISBN 13: 9780816641475

Author: Ann Weinstone


An ethically-based approach to human relations for the media age. Otherness, alterity, the alien–over the course of the past fifty years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, autobiography, and real and imagined correspondence, Ann Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other–whether technological, animal, or simply inanimate–will we truly become posthuman. Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human-technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns on our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs, and affects. Weinstone calls her book a “tantra”–by which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other, self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch.

Avatar Bodies A Tantra For Posthumanism 1st Table of contents:

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Pleasure?
  3. Every Relation but One: Part I
  4. (Post)Humanism?
  5. Suspension
  6. Deconstruction and Posthumanism?
  7. Nonphilosophy?
  8. Tidal Kneeplay?
  9. Deleuze and Derrida: You Are Other?
  10. To Have; To Belong
  11. Fiora Raggi Kneeplay
  12. Tantra for Posthumanism?
  13. Speaking of Assimilation?
  14. Avatar Bodies?
  15. First City Kneeplay
  16. Insect Threads?
  17. Case?
  18. Insects and Buddhists?
  19. The Insect Self
  20. The Insect Yogi?
  21. Knowing, Caring
  22. Second City Kneeplay
  23. Sorcerer Series I: The Island Sorcerer (An Introduction)
  24. Some Celibate Erotics
  25. Vira Action?

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