Posthuman knowledge & the critical posthumanities /
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 a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Cambridge, Massachusetts] :
Published by Harvard Design Press : and Sternberg Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Incidents (Sternberg Press)
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. "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. |
| Physical Description: | 77 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-75). |
| ISBN: | 9783956796104 3956796101 |