This is the fifth volume in McLean's "poems for Emma" series. It is about how Emma helped him leave humanity behind & enter an intense animal state, a form of posthuman being, where posthumanism is seen similarly to how Lyotard sees postmodernism as prior to modernism, & in some ways a crisis state of modernism. As he usually does, McLean draws on another Lyotardian idea, that of intensity as presented in "Libidinal Economy", as well as Deleuze &...