Main entry:

Braidotti, Rosi, author. aut

Title & Author:

Posthuman knowledge & the critical posthumanities / by Rosi Braidotti.

Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard Design Press : Sternberg Press, [2024]
[Cambridge Mass.?] ; The MIT Press ; Art Data ; Les presses du réel ; Idea Books.
©2024

Description:

77 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm

Series:

The incidents

Notes:
"March 12, 2019, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts."--Page 5.
"Introduced by John May -- Orgainzed by the Master in Design Studies Program and Womxn in Design -- Produced by Ken Stewart, Paige K. Johnston, and Patric Verrone."--Page 5.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-75).
(mostly from captions) Introduction of speaker -- Post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, and the posthuman -- "We" are not one and the same -- New materialist philosophy -- The anthropo-meme -- The imaginary of disaster -- Cognitive capitalism -- Posthuman knowledge production -- The critical posthumanities -- The missing people -- Ethics of affirmation -- Questions and answers.

Summary:

"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. In a lecture that oscillates between evocations and transections of contemporary conditions, Braidotti offers what she calls the 'posthuman convergence' as a new paradigm for situating and navigating its 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."--Printed paper wrapper, page 4.

Biographical note:

Rosi Braidotti (born 1954, Italy): "Grew up in Australia, where she received a first class honors degree from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy. She then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne where she received her degree cum laude in philosophy in 1981."--Page 9.

ISBN:

9783956796104 paperback
3956796101 paperback

Subject:

Posthumanism.
Humanism.
Humanistic ethics.
Philosophical anthropology.
Subjectivity.
Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects.
Climatic changes Social aspects.
Humanisme.
Morale humaniste.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Climat Changements Aspect social.
humanism.
philosophical anthropology.

Form/genre:

lectures.
Lectures.
Conférences.

Added entries:

May, John (Architect), host.
Incidents (Sternberg Press)

Post-human knowledge and the critical post-humanities

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 321470
Call No.: 321470
Copy: 1
Status: Available