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