Abigail Susik

Bio

Abigail Susik is Assistant Professor of Art History at Willamette University. Her research ruminates upon the way in which technology, visual and material culture, and social memory create both connections and disconnections in history. A current book project, Radical Dreams: Surrealism and Counterculture, a volume co-edited with Elliott H. King, deals with extensions and adaptations of Surrealism between the 1960s and the 1980s.

Contributions

Still Getting Over Ourselves: Nonhuman Studies

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For editor Richard Grusin and the nine authors who contributed essays to the 2015 volume The Nonhuman Turn, the nonhuman indicates an “indistinction” (x) between the human and the nonhuman. This can be restated as a rejection of the dualistic separation between humans and all sorts of entities such as animals, objects, machines, cultural and natural forces, systems, as well as various types of materialities and modalities. [1] Aaron Jaffe, using the synonymous term “inhumanism” in the September...