Deleuze and the nonhuman turn

an interview with Elizabeth Grosz

Jon Roffe

Hannah Stark

pp. 17-24

in: Jon Roffe, Hannah Stark (eds), Deleuze and the non/human, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

Recently the category of the human has been besieged from all sides. Not only has it been revealed to have been complicit with the violent exclusions of those considered to be less-than-human, understood as a normative notion (women, nonheterosexuals, people of color, the disabled) but its metaphysical security has also been challenged by the flourishing of theoretical interest in the nonhuman: forces, animals, objects and plants. How do you position your own work in relation to the critique of the human — in both its liberal and metaphysical forms — and how do you see the nonhuman turn developing?

Cited authors

Deleuze Gilles

Grosz Elizabeth