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WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN

WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 april 2022 after the human hat does it mean to witness after the W human? The adverbial clause suggests, first, a temporal and a conditional relation to the subject, whereby the act or event of witness- ing follows, responds to, and is conditioned by the departure, or the crumbling away of, the EDITORIAL human. This is not to say, of course, that testi- mony viewed from a post-humanist perspective INTRODUCTION takes place in a world devoid of humans. Para- phrasing Dipesh Chakrabarty’s statement on Alan Weisman’s book The World Without michael richardson Us, we could perhaps suggest that imagining witnessing “in a world without humans” magdalena zolkos would invariably mean situating testimony “beyond the grasp of historical sensibility” (Chakrabarty 197). As the contributions col- WITNESSING AFTER lected here evince, rather than being “liqui- dated” from the scene of witnessing (cf. THE HUMAN Derrida, “Eating Well”), the human – embody- ing a variety of guises, positions, and orien- tations – pullulates the pages of this issue, though always in proximity to non-human or Sherryl Vint’s elaboration of the phrase other-than-human companions. This situates “after the human,” which both problematizes the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 april 2022 after the human hat does it mean to witness after the W human? The adverbial clause suggests, first, a temporal and a conditional relation to the subject, whereby the act or event of witness- ing follows, responds to, and is conditioned by the departure, or the crumbling away of, the EDITORIAL human. This is not to say, of course, that testi- mony viewed from a post-humanist perspective INTRODUCTION takes place...
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 april 2022 after the human hat does it mean to witness after the W human? The adverbial clause suggests, first, a temporal and a conditional relation to the subject, whereby the act or event of witness- ing follows, responds to, and is conditioned by the departure, or the crumbling away of, the EDITORIAL human. This is not to say, of course, that testi- mony viewed from a post-humanist perspective INTRODUCTION takes place in a world devoid of humans. Para- phrasing Dipesh Chakrabarty’s statement on Alan Weisman’s book The World Without michael richardson Us, we could perhaps suggest that imagining witnessing “in a world without humans” magdalena zolkos would invariably mean situating testimony “beyond the grasp of historical sensibility” (Chakrabarty 197). As the contributions col- WITNESSING AFTER lected here evince, rather than being “liqui- dated” from the scene of witnessing (cf. THE HUMAN Derrida, “Eating Well”), the human – embody- ing a variety of guises, positions, and orien- tations – pullulates the pages of this issue, though always in proximity to non-human or Sherryl Vint’s elaboration of the phrase other-than-human companions. This situates “after the human,” which both problematizes the

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Published: Mar 4, 2022

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