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Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism by Weinstone, Ann
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Avatar Bodies : a Tantra for Posthumanism
- Item Length
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- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Genre
- Religion
- Topic
- Spirituality, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist)
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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An ethically-based approach to human relations for the media age Otherness, alterity, the alien--over the course of the past fifty years many of us have based our hopes for more ethical relationships on concepts of difference. Combining philosophy, literary criticism, fiction, autobiography, and real and imagined correspondence, Ann Weinstone proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other--whether technological, animal, or simply inanimate--will we truly become posthuman. Posthumanism has thus far focused nearly exclusively on human-technology relations. Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, consisting of undecidably shared gestures, skills, memories, sensations, beliefs, and affects. Weinstone calls her book a "tantra"--by which she means a set of instructions for practices aimed at sensitizing the reader to the inherent permeability of self to other, self to world. This tantra for posthumanism elaborates devotional gestures that will expose us to more unfettered contacts and the transformative touch.
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University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816641471
ISBN-13
9780816641475
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Book Title
Avatar Bodies : a Tantra for Posthumanism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Spirituality, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist)
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
248 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
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Series Volume Number
10
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Bd450.W445 2003
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments xi Pleasure 1 Every Relation but One:Part I 3 (Post)Humanism 8 Suspension 23 Deconstruction and Posthumanism? 25 Nonphilosophy 17 Tidal Kneeplay 21 Deleuze and Derrida:You Are Other 23 To Have 25 To Belong 28 Fiora Raggi Kneeplay 31 Tantra for Posthumanism 33 Speaking ofAssimilation 37 Avatar Bodies 40 First City Kneeplay 43 Insect Threads 50 Case 52 Insects and Buddhists 55 The Insect Self 59 The Insect Yogi 62 Knowing,Caring 64 Second City Kneeplay 68 Sorcerer Series I:The Island Sorcerer (An Introduction) 71 Some Celibate Erotics 74 Vi raAction 77 The Wasp and the Orchid 79 Sorcerer Series II:The Yogi Sorcerer 83 Sex Scene 86 Becoming Woman,Becoming Yogini 89 English Tantra or the Imperceptible Man 91 Vi ¯raBha¯vaKneeplay 95 Sorcerer Series III:Rheya 96 Sorcerer Series IV:The Miracle of the Rogue 101 Heroes ofDierence 104 Third City Kneeplay:The Wasp and the Orchid Cross a Letter 108 Emanation/Expression 111 Three Bodies 115 Three Bodies:Exposition in Preparation for the Avatar Body 116 Avatar and Expression 118 The Dierence Dierence 121 Avatar Bodies,an Invitation 124 Itaraand Avata¯ra 126 Tantric Bodies 128 Fourth City Kneeplay 130 Eating,Well... 132 Eating Animals 134 Vegetarians,Brahmins 137 Tantra's Third Way 139 The Responsibility of the (Postdeconstructive) Subject 142 Love and Justice 144 Experience 146 Intuition,Perhaps 149 A Tantra for Posthumanism 153 Bha¯va 153 I Am Speaking of Devotion (Bhakti) 154 Discipleship (Di ¯ks a¯) 158 Iteration (Japa) 159 Transindividualism (Nya¯sa) 161 Enjoyment,Intoxication (Bhoga) 163 Gesture (Mudra¯) 169 Fifth City Kneeplay:Solaris in Your Eyes 171 Epistlirium 173 Every Relation but One:Part II 175 Hard to Say 177 The Postal Age 181 (Post) Heroism 184 Post Heroism 187 Post Post 190 The SacriFicial Structure of the Post 193 Fire 197 Water 200 Flesh 202 Who? 204 E-Mail Mudra 206 Chance 210 Postscript 215 Works Cited 219
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-021040
Dewey Decimal
128
Series
Electronic Mediations Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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