The Ahuman Manifesto Activism for the End of the Anthropocene

We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing  technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of  “human” into question.

It is against this context that Patricia  McCormack delivers her expert justification for the “ahuman”. An  alternative to “posthuman” thought, the term paves the way for thinking  that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces  issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death  studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the  apocalypse as an optimistic beginning.

In order to suggest  vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the  difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores  five key contemporary themes:
·         Identity
·         Spirituality
·         Art
·         Death
·         The apocalypse

Collapsing  activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing  some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern  phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and  capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of  'zombiedom', The Ahuman Manifesto navigates the ways in  which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond  nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege. This  is so that we can actively think and live viscerally, with connectivity  (actual not virtual), and with passion and grace, toward a new world.