New Geographies 09
New Geographies 09: Posthuman
Mariano Gomez-Luque, Ghazal Jafari (Editors)
Harvard GSD & Actar, January 2018
Paperback | 8 x 10 inches | 208 pages | English | ISBN: 978-145150722 | $29.95
Publisher Description:
?Posthuman? signals a historical condition in which the coordinates of human existence on the planet are altered by profound technological, ecological, biopolitical, and spatial transformations. Engendering new ways of being in the world, this condition challenges long-established definitions of the ?human?, and by extension, of the human environment. Interpreting design as a geographical agent deeply involved in the territorial engravings of contemporary urbanization, New Geographies 09 investigates the urban landscapes shaping the posthuman geographies of the early 21st century, fostering a wide-ranging debate about both the potentialities and challenges for design to engage with the complex spatialities, more-than-human ecologies, and diverse forms and habits of life of a post-anthropocentric world.dDAB Commentary: The tenth issue (although numbered 09, the inaugural zero issue makes it the tenth) of New Geographies, the annual journal produced by doctorate candidates at Harvard GSD, tackles the wide-ranging theme "Posthuman." Like previous issues of New Geographies (I've posted about 03, 06, and 07), the contributions to "Posthuman" are dense, coming from academics in architecture, geography, and related fields. Some notable names...
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