Rosi Braidotti Mini Seminar - "Non-human/Inhuman/Posthuman" - Seminar 3: "The In Human"
Department: Critical Theory at UCI
Date and Time: March 16, 2016 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
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 3: The In Human" will include:
- Achille Mbembe: “Necro-politics” [Article to be decided]
- Rosi Braidotti: “The Inhuman” (Chapter 3) in: The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013.
- Melinda Cooper (2008): Chapter 1: ‘Introduction’; Chapter 2: ’Life beyond the limits’; Chapter 3: ’On pharmaceutical empire’; Chapter 5: ’Labors of regeneration’ in: Life as Surplus. Biotechnology & Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press).
- Brah (2002): "Global mobility, local predicaments: globalization and the criticalimagination", Feminist Review 70, pp. 30-45