More-Than-Human Aesthetics

Melanie Sehgal is Director of Research at the Institute for Basic Research into the History of Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal. Alex Wilkie is Professor of Design and Societies and a Director of the Design Societies Research Unit in the Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: Tracing More-Than-Human Aesthetics in Times of Socio- Ecological Crisis - Melanie Sehgal and Alex Wilkie





PART I Feeling and Experiencing


2 Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s) - Michael Halewood


3 Eternal Objects of Nuclear Waste Futures - Thomas P. Keating


4 Geo-Narrativity: Anthropocene, Aesthetics, Forensics - Alexander Damianos


5 Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race - Michael L. Thomas





PART II Problematizing and (Re)Valuing


6 A New Taste for Life? Value Ecologies and the Aesthetics of the Outside - Martin Savransky


7 Variations on the Great Refusal via Dante and Whitehead - Cécile Malaspina


8 Aesthetic Axiology: Amanda Piña’s Climatic Dances/ Danzas Climáticas - Maximilian Haas





PART III Infecting and Caring


9 To Err is More Than More-Than-Human: Patient Safety and the Aesthetics of a Never Event - Alex Wilkie


10 Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems - Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey


11 On the Aesthetics of Care/ Care of Aesthetics in Social Scientific Research - Mike Michael





PART IV (Un)Learning and Luring


12 An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate Our Modes of Thought with Stengers - Didier Debaise


13 Back to the Classroom: What Whitehead Took from Art, and What a New Aesthetic Paradigm Can Take from Whitehead - Nicholas Gaskill


14 Schools of Feeling: Unlearning the Bifurcation of Nature Through Aesthetic Education - Melanie Sehgal