The Embarrassment of Being Human: A Critical Essay on the New Materialisms and Modernity in an Age of Crisis

With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization, autonomy, and finitude.

The Embarrassment of Being Human not only demonstrates how these magical materialisms are ...