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In this lucid and passionately argued book, Richard Iveson provides what is perhaps the most powerful and sustained attack to date on the stubbornly persistent vitalist dogmas in posthumanism, animal studies, and new materialism. His project is not merely a critical and destructive one, though. Rather by proposing and defending a generalized ontology of contingency that exceeds the boundaries of life, Iveson helps readers to appreciate anew the wide swath of ethical exigencies that circulate in the sphere of technology and in other registers of the non-living. This is a splendid work that deserves a wide readership. --Matthew Calarco, professor of philosophy, California State University, Fullerton It is Richard Iveson's great merit to require posthumanists not to neglect the most fundamental deconstructive task of postanthropocentric thinking, after the erosion of the human/machine, and human/animal boundary, namely to address the distinction between organic and inorganic on which the notions of life and matter are founded. --Stefan Herbrechter, University of Heidelberg

In this lucid and passionately argued book, Richard Iveson provides what is perhaps the most powerful and sustained attack to date on the stubbornly persistent vitalist dogmas in posthumanism, animal studies, and new materialism. His project is not merely a critical and destructive one, though. Rather by proposing and defending a generalized ontology of contingency that exceeds the boundaries of life, Iveson helps readers to appreciate anew the wide swath of ethical exigencies that circulate in the sphere of technology and in other registers of the non-living. This is a splendid work that deserves a wide readership. It is Richard Iveson's great merit to require posthumanists not to neglect the most fundamental deconstructive task of postanthropocentric thinking, after the erosion of the human/machine, and human/animal boundary, namely to address the distinction between organic and inorganic on which the notions of life and matter are founded.

In this lucid and passionately argued book, Richard Iveson provides what is perhaps the most powerful and sustained attack to date on the stubbornly persistent vitalist dogmas in posthumanism, animal studies, and new materialism. His project is not merely a critical and destructive one, though. Rather by proposing and defending a generalized ontology of contingency that exceeds the boundaries of life, Iveson helps readers to appreciate anew the wide swath of ethical exigencies that circulate in the sphere of technology and in other registers of the non-living. This is a splendid work that deserves a wide readership.--Matthew Calarco, professor of philosophy, California State University, Fullerton It is Richard Iveson's great merit to require posthumanists not to neglect the most fundamental deconstructive task of postanthropocentric thinking, after the erosion of the human/machine, and human/animal boundary, namely to address the distinction between organic and inorganic on which the notions of life and matter are founded.--Stefan Herbrechter, University of Heidelberg

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Richard Iveson was awarded his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and then took up a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Under the general rubric of posthumanism and the posthuman, his current research focuses on the intersection of Continental Philosophy, emergent technologies and the philosophy of science.

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