@inbook{34e2f9dc070448908981b0e4a15b02e1,
title = "Animal-human differences: the deconstructive force of posthumanism",
abstract = "While Posthumanism is a term that arguably assumes fluid, fragmented, flexible subjectivities that expose the constructed and anthropocentric boundaries between human and nonhuman, this chapter attempts to demonstrate the various ways the term contributes to solidifying the boundaries with which it wants to break. More than this, the chapter also argues that increasingly, some posthumanists of varying stripes, are bypassing its deconstructive force by reducing deconstruction to a method, analysis, and application. As I argue in this chapter, the critical force of deconstruction works to undermine our anthropocentrism that founds our current and historical notions of what it means to be human, by radicalizing, and holding accountable, the differences between the human and nonhuman. It is for this reason that the chapter provides an example by way of a discussion of a true long- term relationship between a human (myself) and a wild animal; one in which anthropocentric boundaries are challenged (while still retaining difference).",
keywords = "Animals, Derrida, Jacques, Possum, Ecology, Posthumanism, Deconstruction",
author = "Nicole Anderson",
note = "Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783631845011",
series = "Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Enviroment",
publisher = "Peter Lang Publishing Group",
pages = "211--225",
editor = "Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki",
booktitle = "Symbiotic posthumanist ecologies in Western literature, philosophy and art",
address = "Switzerland",
}