Patricia MacCormack is an

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who lives and works in

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. Currently she is Professor of Continental Philosophy in English and Media at

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, Cambridge. She has published extensively on philosophers including

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

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, and concepts such as

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body modification Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. In its broadest definition it includes skin tattooing, socially acceptable decoration (''e.g.'', common earring, ear piercing in ...

, posthuman theory,

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s and

antinatalism Antinatalism or anti-natalism is the philosophical value judgment that procreation is unethical or unjustifiable. Antinatalists thus argue that humans should abstain from making children. Some antinatalists consider coming into existence to alw ...

. In 2013 she was a visiting Leverhulme Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Books

* ''The Schizoanalysis of Cinema'', edited with Ian Buchanan and including the chapter 'The Ecosophy of Film'. New York: Continuum. 2008. * ''Cinesexuality''.

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. 2008. * ''Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory''. Routledge. 2012. * ''The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory'', sole edited anthology, and including the Introduction and chapter ‘After Life’.

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. 2014. * ''Deleuze and the Animal'' co-edited with Colin Gardner and including the Introduction and chapter ‘Ahuman Abolition’.

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. 2017. * ''Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari'', co-edited with Colin Gardner and including the Introduction and chapter ‘Schizo-Semiotic Apprenticeship: Guattari’s Gift to Contemporary Clinical Practice’. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018. * ''The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene''. Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.

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