This book explores ways in which posthumanist and new materialist thinking can be put to work
in order to reimagine higher education pedagogy practice and research. The editors and
contributors illuminate how we can move the thinking and doing of higher education out of the
humanist cul-de-sac of individualism binarism and colonialism and away from anthropocentric
modes of performative rationality. Based in a reconceptualization of ontology epistemology and
ethics which shifts attention away from the human towards the vitality of matter and the
nonhuman posthumanist and new materialist approaches pose a profound challenge to higher
education. In engaging with the theoretical twists and turns of various posthumanisms and new
materialisms this book offers new experimental and creative ways for academics practitioners
and researchers to do higher education differently. This ground-breaking edited collection will
appeal to students and scholars of posthumanism and new materialism as well as those looking
to conceptualize higher education as other than performative practice.
