Constituting the Human

 

April 8, 2011

 

Keynote: Cary Wolfe, "(Non) (Human) Animals and Biopolitical Thought."

 

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor and Department Chair, Department of English, Rice University Cary Wolfe's works include Critical Environments (1998), Animal Rites (2003), and the edited collection Zoontologies (2003). His 2009 What Is Posthumanism? weaves together the concerns of his previous two volumes: animal studies, systems theory, pragmatism, poststructuralism. He has also been involved in two multi-author volumes: Philosophy and Animal Life, with Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, and Ian Hacking (2008), and The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue, with Paola Cavalieri, Matthew Calarco, Harlan Miller, and J.M. Coetzee (2009). He is currently completing a short book on biopolitics, biophilosophy, and species difference, and editing the series Posthumanities that he founded at Minnesota. http://www.carywolfe.com/vita.html

 

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