Contents

1Introduction: After Nature

Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn

PART I:AFTER MATTER

2Information and Thinking

Michel Serres

3‘Die Natur ist nur einmal da’ [Nature Is There Only Once]

Françoise Balibar

4Generic Mediality: On the Role of Ciphers and Vicarious Symbols in an Extended Sense of Code-based ‘Alphabeticity’

Vera Bühlmann

5The Resonance of Disparates: Spinoza, Damasio, Deleuze and the Ecology of Form

Rick Dolphijn

PART II:AFTER MACHINES

6Media Entangled Phenomenology

Mark B. N. Hansen

7On Reason and Spectral Machines: Robert Brandom and Bounded Posthumanism

David Roden

8Circuits of Desire: Cybernetics and the Post-natural According to Lyotard and Stiegler

Ashley Woodward

9History as an Ecological Niche: Beyond Benjamin’s Nature

Damiano Roberi

10Nature, Technology and Conscious Evolution: A Post-human Constructive Philosophy

Debashish Banerji

PART III:AFTER MAN

11Being without Life: On the Trace of Organic Chauvinism with Derrida and DeLanda

Richard Iveson

12Returning to Text: Deconstructive Paradigms and Posthumanism

Danielle Sands

13Primary and Secondary Nature: The Role of Indeterminacy in Spinoza and Bartleby

Christopher Thomas

Index

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