Volume 3, Issue 2 (December 2009): Beyond the Human
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Editorial
Issue 3.1 delved deep into the human subject. This issue reaches out beyond the human, to the other than human and the human, otherwise. Its forays across the boundaries and limits of humanity present a curved path of ellipsis, as the essays turn in on themselves, presenting and addressing the human from the vantage point of the other, the human seen through alterity and difference.
Adam Stock's article analyses 18th century investigations into the human through metaphors of the machine, and the mechanical in nature. Through Rousseau and Diderot Stock moves outside the human to the body politic, and the mechanical functions of the state. Stuart T. Rochester reaches further into the past and situates his paper in the time of a contemporary call to move beyond the human; the appeal for a humanity constructed otherwise that figures throughout the gospels of Mark. Itsuki Kitani crosses the borders of the human through the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, as Shelley travels outside of himself and into nature. The sensitive-plant provides the means to scrutinize human nature through the physiological operations of "natural" sympathy. David McWilliam questions the essence of humanity when faced with a technology of replication and reproduction: cloning. Through Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go McWilliam examines ethical and political engagements with the human, recreated.
Caroline Haverkort's review essay on Thomas Metzinger and John V. Canfield travels through the ego tunnel to the self-model theory of subjectivity, moving between approaches to self-knowledge. The six reviews offered by Alistair Brown, Jagruti Dave, Maria Carolina Lucato, Eduardo Neve-Jimenez, Jelena Novak and William Viney all provide insights into academic excursions into objects, animals, machines, and music, pushing the human to the limits of existence and survival.
Kaleidoscope's next issue, 4.1 is on the theme of Water. Please see the current call for papers on Kaleidoscope's website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/kaleidoscope/
Acknowledgements
As ever we are grateful for the support of the Institute of Advanced Studies and Durham University. We would like also to thank Gylphi (http://www.gylphi.co.uk) for their excellent typesetting services.
Articles
- Adam Stock, "‘The Organic and the Mechanical: Images of Man, the State and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
- Stuart Rochester, "‘The Eschatological Anthrōpos in Mark's Gospel"
- Itsuki Kitani, "Sensibility and Shelley's Organic System of Nature in 'The Sensitive Plant'"
- David McWilliam, "To Speak Without Being Heard: The Ethics of Ownership Surrounding the Creation of Cloned Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
- Caroline Havercourt, "The Consciousness Revolution: A battle between darkness and light at the end of the (Ego) Tunnel?"
Book Reviews
- Alistair Brown, review of Tim M. Berra, Charles Darwin: The Concise Examination of an Extraordinary Man
- Jagruti Dave, review of Glen Mazis, Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries
- Maria Carolina Lucato, review of Marcus Düwell, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter & Dietmar Mieth, eds.,The Contingent Nature of Life: Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence
- Eduardo Neve-Jimenez, review of Emily Shuckburgh, ed., Survival: Survival of the Human Race
- Jelena Novak, review of Eric Salzman & Thomas Desi, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
- William Viney, review of Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, eds., The Object Reader
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