Patricia MacCormack

Patricia MacCormack is an Australian scholar who lives and works in London, England.[1] Currently she is Professor of Continental Philosophy in English and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Patricia MacCormack
Nationality	Australian
Website	Academic website

She has published extensively on philosophers including Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Serres, Luce Irigaray, and concepts such as queer theory, teratology, body modification, posthuman theory, animal rights, horror films and antinatalism.[2] In 2013 she was a visiting Leverhulme Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[3][4]

Books

• The Schizoanalysis of Cinema, edited with Ian Buchanan and including the chapter 'The Ecosophy of Film'. New York: Continuum. 2008. ISBN 978-1847061287
• Cinesexuality. Routledge. 2008. ISBN 978-0754671756[5][6][7][8]
• Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory. Routledge. 2012. ISBN 978-1409434542
• The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory, sole edited anthology, and including the Introduction and chapter ‘After Life’. Bloomsbury Academic. 2014. ISBN 978-1472526847
• Deleuze and the Animal co-edited with Colin Gardner and including the Introduction and chapter ‘Ahuman Abolition’. Edinburgh University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1474422741
• Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari, co-edited with Colin Gardner and including the Introduction and chapter ‘Schizo-Semiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary Clinical Practice’. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018. ISBN 978-1350026193
• The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. ISBN 978-1350081109

References

1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/12/weekender-dr-patricia-maccormack
2. Scialom, Mike (5 February 2020). "'End procreation to save Earth', says ARU author in 'The Ahuman Manifesto'". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
3. http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/alss/deps/english_media/staff/maccormack.html
4. http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/post-human-nature/
5. Huntley, Tim (2010), "Abstraction is ethical: The ecstatic and erotic in Patricia MacCormack's Cinesexuality" (PDF), Irish Journal of Horror Studies, 8: 17–29
6. Grant, Catherine. "Encounters with a big screen lover". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
7. "Cinesexuality (Book Review)". Contemporary Sociology. 39 (2): 226–226. 2010. doi:10.1177/0094306110361590l. JSTOR 20695388.
8. Martin, Adrian (August 2012). "A theory of agitation, or: Getting off in the cinema". Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 26 (4): 519–528. doi:10.1080/10304312.2012.698032.

External links

• Official website
• Ryder, Alistair (5 February 2020). "'The only solution for climate change is letting the human race become extinct'". Cambridge News.
• Greenfield, Beth (13 February 2020). "Why this professor's climate-crisis solution is rankling Twitter: 'The worst thing you can do is have a child'". Yahoo!Life.