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Posthuman Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Posthuman Knowledge (Hardcover)
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The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about
the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of
humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained
currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in
our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and
algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a
knowledge-intensive capitalism. In Posthuman Knowledge, Rosi
Braidotti takes a closer look at the impact of these developments
on three major areas: the constitution of our subjectivity, the
general production of knowledge and the practice of the academic
humanities. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and anti-racist
theory, she argues that the human was never a neutral category but
one always linked to power and privilege. Hence we must move beyond
the old dualities in which Man defined himself, beyond the
sexualized and racialized others that were excluded from humanity.
Posthuman knowledge, as Braidotti understands it, is not so much an
alternative form of knowledge as a critical call: a call to build a
multi-layered and multi-directional project that displaces
anthropocentrism while pursuing the analysis of the discriminatory
and violent aspects of human activity and interaction wherever they
occur. Situated between the exhilaration of scientific and
technological advances on the one hand and the threat of climate
change devastation on the other, the posthuman convergence
encourages us to think hard and creatively about what we are in the
process of becoming.
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