ABSTRACT
In living better, the authors consider that there may also be possibilities for a posthumanist emancipatory politics of attachment, and they consider what engagements with non-Western cultures have to teach them about creatureliness. They investigate the ways in which the distinctions of civilisation are linked to discourses around the transcendence of their embodied condition as animals. Rather, certain kinds of humans have 'uplifted' themselves, transcended the 'animal' within through the development of a particular kind of culture – civilisation. The authors also consider the possible futures that might be linked to a reappraisal of human being in the world in ways that recognise both the more-than-human constitution of our world and that lived practices, social relations and the character of being are altered by such multiple constitution. There are other searches for the authentic human animal that do involve ridding ourselves of technology and going back to the woods.
