More-Than-Human Aesthetics (eBook)

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