[Commlist] New book: Nonhuman Witnessing

<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478025641/nonhuman-witnessing/>

*Nonhuman Witnessing*
War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World

*Michael Richardson*

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478025641/nonhuman-witnessing/ 
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“Foregrounding the ethical dimensions of the convergence between the 
fields of security and ecology, Michael Richardson explores whether 
witnessing is taking place beyond the boundaries of the human. By making 
a fantastic case for the reversal of the humanist concept of witnessing, 
Richardson impacts what kinds of research questions can be asked across 
the disciplines.” – Jairus Victor Grove, author of /Savage Ecology: War 
and Geopolitics at the End of the World/

“The work of Michael Richardson is like a four dimensional cartography 
to navigate the hyperaesthetics of our post-photographic present.” –Eyal 
Weizman, coauthor of /Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in 
the Politics of Truth/

In /Nonhuman Witnessing/ Michael Richardson argues that a radical 
rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building 
frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, 
and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of 
traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how 
ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us 
better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity 
of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites, from nuclear testing on 
First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes, artificial 
intelligence, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout, he 
illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an 
age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their 
understanding of witnessing, testimony, and trauma in the context of 
interconnected crises, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements 
between witnessing and violence and the human and the nonhuman.

*Michael Richardson*is Associate Professor of Media and Culture at the 
University of New South Wales, Sydney, and author of /Gestures of 
Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature/.



*Duke University Press | Thought in the Act | February 2024 | 256pp 
| 9781478025641 | PB | £22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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