The animal who writes : a posthumanist composition /Marilyn M. Cooper.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Composition, literacy, and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor--as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. The author argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making.