Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rosi Braidotti
Introduction by John May
SeriesSternberg Press / The Incidents
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:88
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 114
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9783956796104
ClassificationsDewey:144
Audience
General
Illustrations 20 COLOR ILLUS.

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 9 May 2023
Publication Country United States

Description

On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities. Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration and exhaustion. Rosi Braidotti argues that we must think about these apparent contradictions all together in order to make differences that actually matter. Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities oscillates between evocations and transections of contemporary conditions, for which Braidotti offers what she calls the "posthuman convergence" as a new paradigm for situating and navigating their problems and possibilities. Reflecting on the knotted situation of the academic humanities, cognitive capitalism, and advanced climate change, she delivers an intersectional critique of humanism and anthropocentrism, and targets their exclusions and aporias to address subjectivity, knowledge production, and academic structures within that posthuman convergence. Braidotti's convergence demands imagination, endurance, connectivity, and perspectives multiplied, embodied, and grounded in the only world we have.

Author Biography

Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as the founding director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht.

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