Biocultural Creatures

"Samantha Frost offers a clear, accessible, and theoretically invigorated exploration of the life sciences, demonstrating the need for a new theory of the human." - Susan Merrill Squier, author of Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

"Samantha Frost has fashioned an exciting new conceptualization of human nature by creatively synthesizing a deep dive into contemporary biology with mastery of humanist theory. By explicating and analyzing biological discoveries revealing that the boundaries between DNA, self, and the environment are much more fluid than ever imagined, Biocultural Creatures builds an important bridge between the humanities and the sciences." - Gene E. Robinson, Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Biocultural Creatures provides an excellent introduction to how the human can be understood in biological terms, without becoming inaccessible in its terminology." - Niclas Hundahl, MedHum | Daily Dose

"This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher—across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines—exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience."

"Frost’s important text is creative, profoundly suggestive, and painstakingly argued." - Romand Coles, Theory & Event

"Trenchant and incisive." - Kevin Arcineaux, Theory & Event

"... the book is indeed offering a new theory of a human being is. Crucially, it is one that would simultaneously retheorize any living organism. ... Frost's is an ambitious task, and the book's success is due, largely, to its highly specific means of pursuit." - Nathan Snaza, Feminist Studies