Tuesday 7th November 2017, 8:00pm

Session 183: “The Posthuman” by Rosi Braidotti with Riikka Tauriainen and Sally Schonfeldt

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UNFOLDING THE POTENTIAL OF THE POSTHUMAN PREDICAMENT,
SUBALTERN SECULAR SPACES,
RELATING TO OTHERS,
HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN FORMS,
NEW CONCRETE FORMS OF UNIVERSALITY,
NON-WESTERN NEO-HUMANISM,
RADICAL POSTHUMAN SUBJECTIVITIES,
EXPANDING THE NOTION OF LIFE TOWARDS THE NON-HUMAN,
THE CRITIQUE OF THE HOMOGENIZATION OF CULTURES,
FORMER HUMANIST CENTRES,
UNACKNOWLEDGED BRUTALITIES,
THE BAD HABITS OF THE OLD IMPERIAL EUROPE,
OF THE REJECTION OF THE SELF-APPOINTED MISSIONARY ROLE OF EUROPE AS THE ALLEGED CENTRE OF THE WORLD,
PLURALIST COSMOPOLITAN PRACTICES,
AFFIRMATIVE POLITICS,
THE PURSUIT OF ALTERNATIVE VISIONS,

…A POSTHUMAN QUEST.

Together with Theory Tuesdays, we explored and thought/read-together Rosi Braidotti’s seminal book The Posthuman. This book came to our attention through our interests in post/de-colonial thought, which this text provides in plentitudes, although each of us arrived at this text through different references – Riikka through readings of Elizabeth Povinelli and Sally through discussions with Indigenous Australian scholars in Australia. We chose extracts from Braidotti’s book entitled “Critical Posthumanism” and “The Posthuman as Becoming-earth” as the first offers Braidotti’s own critical position on the transformative potentials offered by Posthumanism and the second lies closer to our hearts – the notion of a non-human based and earth embracing understanding of our world.

Paticipants: 7