Anglia Ruskin University professor Patricia MacCormack author of
The Ahuman Manifesto:
Activism for the End of the Anthropocene
celebrates Halloween by assuring us that we can survive the Climate Crisis by dismantling our humanity.
" the “ahuman” will avoid ecological collapse by “going beyond binaries of human and not human. In order to dismantle the human, I have sought to no longer argue like a human, with other humans,”
"If we no longer reproduce, we can care for all inhabitants already here, human and non-human, as well as care for the Earth itself by mitigating the damage already caused. It’s an activism of care… are humans really the ‘best’ forms of life, or should we dismantle our understanding of life as a hierarchy for a more ecological, interconnected scheme of living things?"
The occult rave DJ , performance artist, and binge watcher of Avatar is noted for prefiguring Extinction Rebellion with an Arts Council England-funded “queer spell” event that conjured “punk witches, camp vampires and queer zombies” to rise from their graves and dismantle capitalism.
Her contributionz to the intellectual climate framing Gynthropocene discourse include :
Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality and Becoming-Monster (2004),
Becoming-Vulva (2010),
The Ecstatic Olfactory Face (2014)
Queer Posthumanizm (2015)
Rebuilding the Fabulated Bodies of the Hoard-Warriors (2016), and
Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal (2017).
