More-Than-Human Aesthetics

This imaginative collection invites readers to explore how a broader view of aesthetics can reshape areas like, medicine, arts and education, challenging how we think about knowledge. It is an agenda-setting contribution to understanding the significance of aesthetics in science and technology studies.

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures.Drawing on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Félix Guattari, the book develops aesthetics as central to all more-than-human forms of experience, including knowledge practices. Each contribution invites readers on an adventure to explore how this broader view of aesthetics can reshape areas including biomedicine, geological forensics, nuclear waste, race, as well as arts and education.This is an agenda-setting contribution to understanding the significance of aesthetics in science and technology studies, as well social and cultural research more broadly.

Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: Tracing More-Than-Human Aesthetics in Times of Socio- Ecological Crisis - Melanie Sehgal and Alex WilkiePART I Feeling and Experiencing2 Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s) - Michael Halewood3 Eternal Objects of Nuclear Waste Futures - Thomas P. Keating4 Geo-Narrativity: Anthropocene, Aesthetics, Forensics - Alexander Damianos5 Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race - Michael L. ThomasPART II Problematizing and (Re)Valuing6 A New Taste for Life? Value Ecologies and the Aesthetics of the Outside - Martin Savransky7 Variations on the Great Refusal via Dante and Whitehead - Cécile Malaspina8 Aesthetic Axiology: Amanda Piña’s Climatic Dances/ Danzas Climáticas - Maximilian HaasPART III Infecting and Caring9 To Err is More Than More-Than-Human: Patient Safety and the Aesthetics of a Never Event - Alex Wilkie10 Machinic Highs and Pathic Patchworks of Addicted Systems - Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey11 On the Aesthetics of Care/ Care of Aesthetics in Social Scientific Research - Mike MichaelPART IV (Un)Learning and Luring12 An Ethology of Abstractions: Learning How to Cultivate Our Modes of Thought with Stengers - Didier Debaise13 Back to the Classroom: What Whitehead Took from Art, and What a New Aesthetic Paradigm Can Take from Whitehead - Nicholas Gaskill14 Schools of Feeling: Unlearning the Bifurcation of Nature Through Aesthetic Education - Melanie Sehgal