Rosi Braidotti Mini Seminar - "Non-human/Inhuman/Posthuman" - Seminar 2: "Postanthropocentrism"
This seminar aims at outlining, exploring and assessing different traditions of thought about the non-human/inhuman/posthuman with special reference to theories of subjectivity, taking as a running thread the on-going discussion and negotiation with Humanism. The seminar has a critical edge but a distinctively affirmative character in that it spends less time on the criticism of existing humanist models than on the specific theoretical, methodological and political contributions made by critical theories themselves. From post-structuralist anti-humanism to non-Western neo-humanism, critical theory involves the redefinition of what it means to be human.
Based on my books Nomadic Subjects and Nomadic Feminist Theory (Columbia University Press, 2011) and The Posthuman (Polity Press, 2013), I will introduce deleuzian neo-materialism and spinozist monism as major building blocks of contemporary posthuman theory.
Reading material for "Seminar 2: Postanthropocentrism" will include:
- Rosi Braidotti: Chapter 2 “Postanthropocentrism’ in: The Posthuman; ‘Sexual difference as a nomadic political project’ in: Nomadic Subjects
- Haraway, Donna (2003): The Companion Species Manifesto. Dogs, People and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. https://nihilsentimentalgia09.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/haraway_companion_species_manifesto.pdf
- Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan (eds.): Scattered Hegemonies. Postmodernity and Transnational Practices (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1994) p.1-33.
- Vandana Shiva: “Can life be made? Can life be powered?” in: ‘Biopiracy. The plunder of nature and knowledge’, Boston, 1997, p.19-42
- Articles by D. Goldberg and P. Essed on life biopolitics
Critical Theory at UCI Mar 15 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030