The Animal Who Writes: A Posthumanist Composition

By Marilyn M Cooper

Book Overview

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor--as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Marilyn M. Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. Cooper argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822967596
• ISBN13: 9780822967590
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"