CLINAMEN, OR THE AUTO-REJECT FOR “POSTHUMAN” FUTURES

• Published in: Reject p. 218
• Main Author: Goh, Irving
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Fordham University Press 2014; University of Virginia Press
• Subjects: Animals; Applied philosophy; Applied sciences; Atomic physics; Atoms; Autoimmunity; Bacteria; Bacteriology; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Biology; Clinamen; Communities; Epistemology; Health sciences; Human societies; Humanism; Humans; Immune system; Immunology; Literary theory; Mammals; Medical sciences; Microbiology; Microphysics; Pataphysics; Personality; Personality psychology; Personality theories; Philosophy; Philosophy of science; Physical sciences; Physics; Political science & theory; Primates; Pseudoscience; Psychology; Social & political philosophy; Social groups; Sociology; Subjectivity; Systems science; Systems theory; Zoology
• ISBN: 9780823262687; 0823262685; 9780823262694; 0823262693

In following the animal in the last two chapters — first the animal-messiah in Cixous, and then becoming-animal in Deleuze and Guattari — one could say that the question of therejecthas progressively taken on a “posthuman” contour, especially if one follows Cary Wolfe’s “posthumanism,” or Rosi Braidotti’s “posthuman critical theory” (even though, as I will explicate in a while, one should heed Braidotti’s “posthumanism” only in limited ways). According to Wolfe inWhat is Posthumanism?,the animal question — particularly that which Derrida inL’Animal que donc je suistakes as its point of departure — is what “posthuman” discourse, if it