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                Dear Colleagues,
<br>Please find below and attached an announcement for a summer school course on
<br>contemporary debates about the “posthuman turn” and how it re-configures
<br>knowledge production in the humanities and beyond. Directed by prof. Rosi
<br>Braidotti.
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<br>Posthuman Knowledge(s)
<br>Utrecht University, course director Prof. Rosi Braidotti
<br>19 August 2019 - 23 August 2019 ( 1 week )
<br>https://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/culture/posthuman-knowledge
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<br>The intensive course “Posthuman Knowledge(s)” offers an overview of
<br>contemporary debates around the ‘posthuman turn’, in the framework of
<br>Braidotti’s brand of critical theory.  
<br>It explores the implications of the posthuman convergence of posthumanism and
<br>postanthropocentrism for the constitution of subjectivity, the production of 
<br>knowledge and the practice of the academic humanities. How can scholarship in
<br>the critical humanities move beyond the old dualities in which Man/Anthropos
<br>defined himself, beyond the hierarchical production of sexualized, racialized
<br>and naturalized others as excluded from humanity ? To what extent do current
<br>posthuman forms of knowledge critique anthropocentrism and Eurocentric
<br>humanism?
<br>In 2019, Braidotti’s intensive course will focus on “Posthuman
<br>Knowledge(s)” , which is also the title of Braidotti’s new monograph,
<br>published by Polity Press. The other textbook that will be adopted for the
<br>course is The Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
<br>The aim of this interdisciplinary  course is to offer a critical overview of
<br>the contemporary scholarship dealing with the applications and implications of
<br>the ‘posthuman turn,’ for knowledge production and research, notably in
<br>the Humanities and Social Sciences. The posthuman turn is defined as the
<br>convergence, within the context of advanced or cognitive capitalism, of
<br>post-humanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other. Although
<br>these two lines of critical thought often overlap, they are rather distinct
<br>phenomena both in terms of their theoretical genealogies and in their
<br>practical applications. Their current convergence is triggering a number of
<br>qualitative developments of a very original nature, which we will try to
<br>study.
<br>A related aim of the course is to introduce the participants to Braidotti’s
<br>specific brand of neo-materialist, critical posthuman theory. This theory
<br>rests on two main concepts: the emphasis on the embodied and embedded,
<br>relational and affective structure of subjectivity and the grounded and
<br>accountable nature of knowledge claims. These aspects will be connected
<br>through the emphasis on perspectival politics of locations on the one hand and
<br>affirmative ethics on the other. To strengthen this aspect of the course,
<br>participants will be required to read Braidotti’s The Posthuman (Polity
<br>Press, 2013) prior to the start of the course.
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<br>In order to evaluate posthuman knowledge(s), the course will present, explore
<br>and assess  the defining features of a selected number of fields within the
<br>fast-growing Posthumanities, such as the Environmental, Digital and Medical
<br>Humanities, asking questions such as: what is the object of enquiry of these
<br>emergent areas of research? What is the knowing subject of the Posthumanities?
<br>How do these new fields of knowledge affect the constitution of subjectivity
<br>and practice of academic research today? Mindful of the differences in power
<br>and access that structure the debate on the posthuman, we will also
<br>investigate how posthuman knowledge(s) can assist us in moving beyond the
<br>patterns of exclusion of the sexualized, racialized and naturalized
<br>“others” that were not recognized as belonging to humanity and were also
<br>disqualified as subjects of knowledge. Special attention will also be given to
<br>the continuing efforts to learn to think beyond anthropocentrism.
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<br>Next to outlining the main features of the Posthumanities, the course will
<br>also endeavour to present in a collaborative fashion – through panels and
<br>tutorials – a selection of concrete case-studies drawn from the
<br>Environmental, Digital and Medical Humanities. These cases will be presented
<br>by teams of participating scholars from a range of disciplines and
<br>interdisciplinary areas of research, notably: literature and animal studies,
<br>pedagogy, media and technology studies, legal theory, philosophy and the arts.
<br>Throughout the course, special efforts will be made to highlight the crucial
<br>contribution of art practices to all areas of posthuman scholarship and
<br>research.        
<br>Course director
<br>Prof. dr. Rosi Braidotti
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<br>Application
<br>For this course you are required to upload the following documents when
<br>applying:
<br>•  Motivation Letter
<br>•  Reference Letter
<br>•  C.V.
<br>•  Transcript of Grades
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<br>Registration
<br>Application deadline: 01 June 2019
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<br>Goda Klumbyte
<br>Research Fellow
<br>Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS)
<br>Kopernikusgasse 9
<br>8010 Graz, Austria
<br>www.ifz.at/IAS-STS
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<br>The IAS-STS is hosted by the IFZ – Inter-University Research Centre for
<br>Technology, Work and Culture (www.ifz.at) and by the Science, Technology and
<br>Society Unit (www.sts.tugraz.at) of Graz University of Technology
<br>
<br>PhD Candidate
<br>Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems
<br>Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
<br>University of Kassel, Germany
<br>www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/fachgebiete/gedis
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<br>goda.klumbyte@uni-kassel.de
<br>Pronouns: she/her
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<br>G.K.
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