A Polemical Companion to Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates
Ed. Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz
The present "debate" is meant to be read in conjunction with Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates, edited by Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. (Available in hardcover, paperback and ebook)
Prelude
1. Iberian Studies for a Change: Chasing Boundaries of Life
Katarzyna Beilin
2. Telling Worldly Stories in a More-than-Human World (or How to Overcome Humanist Orthodoxies in Iberian Cultural Criticism)
Daniel Ares López
3. Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers
John Beusterien
4. Cultivating the Square: Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson
5. Happiness
Eugenia Afinoguénova
6. Spanish Cultural and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene
Luis I. Prádanos
7. A Note on the Culture of Biotechnology in Contemporary Spain
Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin
8. Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead: The Civil War and Spain's Political Present
Sebastiaan Faber
9. Nunca Máis: Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster
John H. Trevathan
Polemics
10. Debating Ourselves; Towards the Garden Cities
Katarzyna Beilin
11. Exploring the Political Ecology of Iberian Studies
Luis I. Prádanos
12. An Exemplary Iberian Peninsula for an Ethics of Life
John Beusterien
13. The Ecological Imperative of Urban Cultural Studies
Matthew I. Feinberg and Susan Larson
14. The Community to Come: Reconsidering Democracy by Way of the Ethics of Life
William Viestenz
15. Back to Alienation
Eugenia Afinoguénova
16. Material Semiotics, Political Ecologies, Ethics of Life and the Renewed Potential of the Humanities to Describe and Shape the World in the Anthropocene
Daniel Ares López
17. Literature as Ecological Thought: Mind the Metaphor
Juan F. Egea
18. Opening Black Boxes in Iberian Debates on Life
John H. Trevathan
19. Dam Novels: Drowned Memory and Disposable Communities
Martín López-Vega
20. Matters of Concern: Survival Strategies
Sebastiaan Faber
21. Assisted Suicide and Academic Suicide
Paul Begin
22. Keeping the Humanities Alive by Transforming It: A Co-op Conclusion
Daniel Ares López, Katarzyna Beilin, John Beusterien, Luis I. Prádanos, Sainath Suryanaryanan and William Viestenz
Cover Image
Open Dump by Guiliano Belli