[Air-L] new and forthcoming book publications

[NIKOLETA ZAMPAKI]

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲/𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
 ✒️by Claude Calame
🔗 www.tplondon.com/product/humans-environment/

The modern concept of “nature” appeared during the 17th Century: nature as a mechanical object to be submitted to reason man. A long tradition refers to the concept of nature in the Greek phusis. It is referring to a dynamic process that engages in criticizing the modern paradigm of nature as opposed to culture.
As it is, the principle of the domination and exploitation by humans of what we consider as nature is at the heart of the ideological, economic and financial models imposed by neoliberal capitalism. Based on the objective of growth, this model shapes and destroys human communities as well as the environment on which they rely and sustain.
The climatic urgency as well as the limited capacity of the resources of the earth, require a transition towards an ecosocialism for another world. The anthropological confrontation with the Greek phusis invites to a break with capitalism based on a large scale and speedy use of technologies and with the only objective of financial gain. The result has been destructive productivism. Instead, we have to take into account the complexity of and interactions between human societies and their technical practices in their environment. The survival of one or the other is at stake. In sum, nature is culture.
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Forthcoming Book Publication at the Book Series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures”, Rowman & Littlefield

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 by Professor Sebastian Williams Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. Initially referring to a guest who exchanged stories for a place at the dinner table, Sebastian Williams argues that the parasite has developed into a vile and hated figure who drains energy from the body politic. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, he posits that “parasite” became a biosocial term for Humanity’s ultimate Other—a dangerous antagonist. But many modernist authors reconsider the parasite to critique the liberal humanist sense of an independent Self. Considering work by Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell, among others, the author argues that even parasites have their place in a posthumanist world. Ultimately, he argues the parasite inherently depends on others for its survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities. More info: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666921298/Modernist-Parasites-Bioethics-Dependency-and-Literature-post-1900


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Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Post-doc Researcher
Faculty of Philology,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
E-mail: nikzamp at phil.uoa.gr
Academia.edu: [https://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/NikoletaZampaki]
Associate and Managing Editor at the Journal of Ecohumanism
[https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/index]
Series co-Editor of "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" at Rowman & Littlefield [https://rowman.com/Action/Series/_/LEXPCF]
Series co-Editor of “Environmental Humanities Book Series” at TPLondon [https://www.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/]