DeFalco, A. (2023). Curious kin in fictions of posthuman care. Oxford University Press.

Abstract

The crisis arising from climate change poses imminent threats to marginalised human and nonhuman populations, necessitating a concerted effort to formulate comprehensive solutions. The primary reason for climate change is humans’ rampant exploitation of natural resources through extractivism. The hubris of human exceptionalism allowed humans to continue this attitude of total disregard (Braidotti 2013, Ferrando 2020, Jensen and Auld 2022). In order to understand the flaws of human exceptionalism, it is imperative to comprehend prevailing notions of the human and how they create exclusionary boundaries. Posthumanism helps to realise the full potential of the decentering of the human as the measure of everything (Herbrechter 2013, Ferrando 2013, Ferrando 2020). It is a call for action to radically redefine the monolithic concept of humanism that emerged during the Enlightenment period in Europe (Braidotti 2013, Ferrando 2020).