DeFalco, A. (2023). Curious kin in fictions of posthuman care. Oxford University Press

Abstract

The crisis arising from climate change poses imminent threats to marginalised human and
nonhuman populations, necessitating a concerted effort to formulate comprehensive solutions. The
primary reason for climate change is humans’ rampant exploitation of natural resources through
extractivism. The hubris of human exceptionalism allowed humans to continue this attitude of total
disregard (Braidotti 2013, Ferrando 2020, Jensen and Auld 2022). In order to understand the flaws
of human exceptionalism, it is imperative to comprehend prevailing notions of the human and how
they create exclusionary boundaries.