Speculative Flesh Ecologies

Hind’s Speculative Flesh Ecologies takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through different types of flesh – such as animal, vegetal, and cultured – to challenge prevailing assumptions about human exceptionalism and the contingent boundaries we place around what we consider appropriate to eat. Using a suite of speculative fictions, she shows how these texts explore different approaches to “fleshiness” to facilitate an examination not only of a novel aspect of posthuman thought but also of the kinds of cultural work speculative fiction does. Definitely a book to consume and chew over. -- Dr Will Slocombe, Reader in English, University of Liverpool
Hind makes a compelling case for reading fictional environments as speculative flesh ecologies by showing how the word-made flesh – whether in human, animal, plant, thing or tissue-cultured forms – emerging in twenty first-century science fiction confronts readers with urgent questions about current consumption patterns, especially how to pursue ethical alternatives. -- Dr Susan McHugh, Professor of English, University of New England