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In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures. Drawing on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Flix Guattari, the book develops aesthetics as central to all more-than-human forms of experience, including knowledge practices. Each contribution invites readers on an adventure to explore how this broader view of aesthetics can reshape areas including biomedicine, geological forensics, nuclear waste, race, as well as arts and education. This is an agenda-setting contribution to understanding the significance of aesthetics in science and technology studies, as well social and cultural research more broadly.

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Author:   Mike Michael (University of Exeter) ,  Michael Halewood (University of Essex) ,  Thomas P. Keating (Linköping University) ,  Alexander Damianos (University of Kent)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529227789

ISBN 10:   152922778
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   30 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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“Alfred N. Whitehead’s daring protest against the ‘bifurcation of nature’ called for the liberation of aesthetics from human exceptionality. More-Than-Human Aesthetics turns this protest into a compelling multifaceted exploration. How would our practices be transformed if we recognized that none of them can be divorced from an aesthetic experience which humans share with all other inhabitants of the earth?” Isabelle Stengers, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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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.

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