Post humanism

Through narratological analyses of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, this project challenges the ingrained epistemologies and ontologies of humanism and anthropocentrism and offers a zoecentric alternative: the “individual” is always-already hybrid. Beginning with a post-structural and post-humanist theoretical framework, Part I explores how Atwood constructs hybrid Bildungsromans in Crake and Flood by aligning narratively significant moments of inter-species interaction with substantial shifts of the binary narrative structure. Both novels end, however, on unresolved binary options. Part II introduces Anishinaabe epistemologies and ontologies of interconnectivity, using the philosophy of mino-bimaadiziwin alongside aspects of Anishinaabemowin and narrative forms, in order to conduct an Indigenous-centric reading of MaddAddam. I argue that the trilogy both depicts and performs a zoecentric epistemological/ontological shift in the development of the characters, the narrative struc...

This paper aims to analyse the epistemological definition of the legal subject in Hart's philosophical and theoretical thought. In order to achieve this, it delves into Hart's well-known doctrine of the minimum content of natural law, through proper references to its philosophical and methodical basis, which is reminiscent of the Oxfordian criticism of Kant's theoretical statements. In fact, the core of the Hartian foundation of subjectivity is directly connected to the analysis of some truisms about the human nature, whose contingency is particularly emphasised by the author himself. In conclusion, this study shows how this famous and controversial doctrine can be read from a posthumanistic point of view, so that Hart's notion of «human» is conceived as dependent on the ability to enhance our bodies through technology.

O presente artigo pretende desestabilizar os fundamentos do binarismo humanidade/natureza por meio de uma reflexão que amplie o escopo da definição tradicional de violência, demasiadamente antropocêntrica, de maneira a abrir espaço para o reconhecimento de outras formas de violência perpetradas contra outros sujeitos, notadamente não-humanos. Para tanto, o artigo investiga a partir de uma perspectiva pós-colonial a equivalência entre o binarismo humanidade/natureza e a dicotomia colonizador/colonizado, reiterando a ideia central de que a animalização e a desumanização de certos seres humanos é fundamentada e autorizada pela subjugação dos animais através de práticas de violência. Esta literatura se intercala com um marco pós-estruturalista como fonte de desconstrução das fronteiras que separam a humanidade da natureza, indicando também qual seria o movimento de resistência mais apto a romper com as práticas de violência direcionadas aos não-humanos. O artigo tenta, por fim, demonstrar como a eliminação completa dos termos do antropocentrismo seria impossível e indesejável, na medida em que é a partir deles que um discurso de resistência subversivo pode se afirmar, vislumbrando a possibilidade de instituição de um "terceiro espaço", novo e autoral, resultado da imbricação do discurso colonial e das cosmologias ameríndias.

The idea of enhancing soldiers with advanced technologies capable of overcoming the limits of the human body is no longer just science fiction, but a rapidly evolving reality. These technologies aim to transform soldiers into enhanced fighters, capable of operating in extreme scenarios with greater strength, resistance, sensory capacity, and tactical intelligence. Among emerging military technologies, a crucial role is played by Embodied Technologies and Neuroweapons, which aim to increase physical and cognitive capabilities of the modern soldier through the implantation of advanced devices that reflect the progress of neurotechnologies in the military, highlighting the development of a new type of asset for the modern armed forces. These technologies, a direct expression of research on human enhancement, are broadening the spectrum of reflection of posthumanist and transhumanist thought, redrawing the boundaries between man and machine, with significant ethical and social implications. This article provides an overview of the development of such technologies in the military, highlighting their relationship with the concept of Post-human, with particular attention to the impact on ongoing conflicts, where the first “augmented soldiers" have already entered.

The account of narrative temporality has a propensity to give impetus towards an absurd c o m p l e x i t y. C o s m o l o g i c a l a n d phenomenological collision of time gives rise to this absurdity. Philosophical tradition views the cosmological time as a succession of ‘ n o w s . ’ O n t h e o t h e r h a n d , phenomenological time is seen as an embedded structure. The concept of time as succession is rendered inoperable by the knowledge of time as co-existence. This paper intends to examine time and narration in Samuel Beckett’s plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame which always play a vital role in the turns and twists of the plot structure, characterization, environment, stage, and, above all, on the audience. The treatment and treatise of time from an ontological and epistemological viewpoint, which is seen through the scope of Narrative Theory, will certainly add more insight to the subject, and hence will explore beyond the mere philosophical/metaphysical boundaries of ‘t...

Lavra é um documentário híbrido que tanto mapeia os diferentes danos da atividade mineradora em Minas Gerais quanto narra o processo de luto de uma personagem fictícia frente a morte de um rio. Instigado pela ruptura da Barragem do Fundão em novembro de 2015, o longa-metragem executa uma cartografia "psicoterrática" da catástrofe, descrevendo transformações no território ocupado pelo extrativismo a partir dos impactos ambientais e das mudanças no próprio relevo da região, mas também a partir dos desejos e das subjetividades das pessoas que ali habitam. Buscando tecer um quadro conceitual entre ecologia crítica e psicanálise a fim de melhor descrever como desastres ambientais nos afetam no âmbito da subjetividade política, este artigo analisa como Lavra elabora o sofrimento em sua narrativa, performando um luto ecológico em que a categoria de atingido é constantemente revisada e ampliada para abarcar a própria narradora, que se vê engajada com as comunidades e paisagens que visita.

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Os confinamentos do COVID 19 mudaram a nossa relação com o computador: passámos a usá-lo mais mas não necessariamente melhor. Nestes tempos, ensino, trabalho, divertimento e arte recorrem às redes sociais, ao vídeo streamming e a plataformas online. Acreditamos que a actual reflexão sobre esta Interacção Humano Computador poderá ganhar com as experimentações da ciberformance-a performance art que cruza ambientes físicos e virtuais-tanto a nível da teoria, através de conceitos como realidade virtual e incorporação-como da prática, que preconiza a criação de interfaces intermediais que desenvolvem a nossa condição pós-humana de forma mais livre, incorporada e amplificada.
Abstract
COVID 19 confinements changed our relationship with the computer: we use it more but not necessarilly better. In these times education, work, entertainment and art resort to social media, video streamming and online platforms. We believe that the current reflection on this Human Computer Interaction can gain from the experiments of cyberformance – the performance art the crosses physical and virtual environments – both at a theoritical level, through concepts like virtual reality or corporeality, and at an empirical level, previewing the creation of intermedial interfaces that develop our post-human condition in a more embodied, integrated and freer way.

Lavra é um documentário híbrido que tanto mapeia os diferentes danos da atividade mineradora em Minas Gerais quanto narra o processo de luto de uma personagem fictícia frente a morte de um rio. Instigado pela ruptura da Barragem do Fundão em novembro de 2015, o longa-metragem executa uma cartografia "psicoterrática" da catástrofe, descrevendo transformações no território ocupado pelo extrativismo a partir dos impactos ambientais e das mudanças no próprio relevo da região, mas também a partir dos desejos e das subjetividades das pessoas que ali habitam. Buscando tecer um quadro conceitual entre ecologia crítica e psicanálise a fim de melhor descrever como desastres ambientais nos afetam no âmbito da subjetividade política, este artigo analisa como Lavra elabora o sofrimento em sua narrativa, performando um luto ecológico em que a categoria de atingido é constantemente revisada e ampliada para abarcar a própria narradora, que se vê engajada com as comunidades e paisagens que visita.

Networked technologies have created many learning opportunities and led to new learning models such as massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, MOOCs are an evolving learning model that are even today changing according to learners’ needs. First generation cMOOCs and second generation xMOOCs are now being followed by third generation hybrid MOOCs. In these evolution cycles, there are many experimental practices such as the use of bot-teachers. This study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and then focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective, using teaching presence from the community of inquiry (CoI) and actor-network theory (ANT) as theoretical lenses. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is promising and beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence such as direct instruction, and/or design and organisation. However, analysis found that th...

Introduction Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer death in Caribbean women. Across the Caribbean islands, the prevalence of hereditary breast cancer among unselected breast cancer patients ranges from 5 to 25%. Moreover, the prevalence of BC among younger women and the high mortality in the Caribbean region are notable. This BC burden presents an opportunity for cancer prevention and control that begins with genetic testing among high-risk women. Measured response to positive genetic test results includes the number of preventive procedures and cascade testing in family members. We previously reported data on an active approach to promote cascade testing in the Bahamas and report on preventive procedures showing moderate uptake. Here, we describe a clinically structured and community-partnered approach to the dissemination and follow-up of genetic test results including family counseling for the promotion of risk mitigation strategies and cascade testing in our Trinidadian cohort of patients tested positive for BC predisposition genes. Methods As a part of our initial study of BC genetic testing in Trinidad and Tobago, all participants received pre-test counseling including three-generation pedigree and genetic testing for BRCA1/2, PALB2, and RAD51C. The study was approved by the University of Miami IRB and the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. We prospectively evaluated a clinically structured approach to genetic counseling and follow-up of BC mutation carriers in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015. The intervention consisted of (1) engaging twenty-nine BC patients with a deleterious gene mutation (probands), and (2) invitation of their at-risk relatives to attend to a family counseling session. The session included information on the meaning of their results, risk of inheritance, risk of cancer, risk-reduction options, offering of cascade testing to family members, and follow-up of proband decision-making over two years. Results Twenty-four of twenty-nine mutation carriers (82.8%) consented to enroll in the study. At initial pedigree review, we identified 125 at-risk relatives (ARR). Seventy-seven ARR (62%) attended the family counseling sessions; of these, 76 ARR (99%) consented to be tested for their family gene mutation. Genetic sequencing revealed that of the 76 tested, 35 (46%) ARR were carriers of their family mutation. The ARR received their results and were urged to take preventative measures at post-test counseling. At 2-year follow-up, 6 of 21 probands with intact breasts elected to pursue preventive mastectomy (28.5%) and 4 of 20 women with intact ovaries underwent RRSO (20%). Conclusions In Trinidad and Tobago, a clinically structured and partnered approach to our testing program led to a significant rate of proband response by completing the intervention counseling session, executing risk-reducing procedures as well as informing and motivating at-risk relatives, thereby demonstrating the utility and efficacy of this BC control program.

Inspired by the feminist thoughts of Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, the author of this article endeavours to depict the emerging concept of gender neutrality that has developed in Sweden in recent years. The author uses an interpretative paradigm with a variety of qualitative field research tools, to gain a deeper understanding of how gender neutrality works in practice at school and nursery level in Sweden. The study took place in Stockholm in September 2014 with the author living in situ. The case study involved the use of: field notes and observations, interviews with university scholars, heads of schools and nurseries and openended questionnaires with teachers, carers and students. The analysis of written resources included the school and nursery national curriculum, press discourse and scientific publications on the subject matter. The author of the article argues that gender neutrality may be perceived as a concept originating from post-humanism, therefore it should be examined within the post-human socio-pedagogical reflection and embedded in norm critical discourse.

Para além da ciência e do anthropos: deslocamentos da antropologia da ciência e da tecnologia no Brasil A antropologia da ciência e da tecnologia (ACT) no Brasil tem se desenvolvido com grande fôlego, principalmente a partir da virada para o século XXI. Este artigo oferece um mapeamento inicial desse campo no que concerne ao período entre 2010 e 2018. Diante das limitações de fornecer um panorama mais abrangente, optamos pela combinação de diferentes estratégias: análise de publicações em periódicos científicos e coletâneas; mapeamento das abordagens e temáticas presentes nos eventos científicos; e informações complementares relativas a teses e dissertações. Espera-se indicar pistas acerca dos investimentos de pesquisa, possivelmente mais consolidados, divulgados nas revistas mais qualificadas do país e nas coletâneas de artigos e acerca da produção emergente de conhecimento registrada nos anais dos congressos da área. Os resultados do mapeamento revelaram a concentração da produção nos seguintes eixos: conceitos e métodos da ACT; biomedicina e saúde; gêneros e sexualidades; humanos e não humanos; técnicas; questões ambientais e desenvolvimento.

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While implementation research has studied the behaviors of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) extensively, we have very little knowledge about the role of managers in affecting SLB behaviors during implementation of policy reforms. This report examines the role of managers in the implementation of a major – but contested – public school reform in Denmark. Testing change management theory, we find substantial effects of managerial communication about the change on the implementation of the reform in teaching practices – this concerns both communication of visions and plans for implementation and conversations with employees individually about their future role. However, several other change management aspects have no effect or very slight effects on implementation. We also find substantial implementation effects of managers’ professional leadership when they are involved in teaching, i.e. when they observe classroom teaching, provide feedback and discuss methods. The study finds even st...

Activists and scholars often describe environmental racism as an immoral and illegal dumping of toxic waste into poor, Black, and people of colour communities. Yet, the use of environmental habitats in (and with) which Black people are mutilated, concealed, and contained has gone under‐conceptualised as a mode of environmental racism. I propose an expansion of familiar understandings of environmental racism to include the use of environmental habitats to commit and conceal acts of anti‐Black violence. This proposition draws from an understanding that environmental racism includes the mutual devaluation of Black bodies and the spaces in which they inhabit. I ground this study in Afro‐Pessimist and Black geographies thought, research on environmental racism and cultural analyses of Black literary and performance art. Finally, I draw from the spatial and racial analyses imprinted within James Baldwin's immense catalogue to put forth Blackness as an alternate human ethic imbued with...

This article * concentrates on the material side of religious intimacy in Afro-Brazilian Umbanda through an 'ontographic' perspective as well as looking at materiality as evidence. It is based on an eleven-month fieldwork period among devotees, clients and individual practitioners of Umbanda in Southeast Brazilian metropolises, especially in São Paulo. In people's experiences of spiritual work (trabalho) and spiritual development (desenvolvimento) carried out with Exús-guardians, guides and protectors who have, after their death, returned in order to work for people's wellbeing-ritual objects (such as bodies, clothes, beverages, herbs, cigarettes, candles, songs) are seen as constitutive in knowledge production and life transformation. The central claim in this article is that diverse material and immaterial objects through which Exús interact and materialise, are neither primarily symbolic nor representative, but are re-configurative.

Setores do extrativismo brasileiro têm sido criticados em virtude da expansão agrícola e minerária na floresta amazônica e nos territórios das comunidades indígenas e tradicionais, que assume cada vez mais o caráter de invasões violentas. Em decorrência das críticas, a implementação de padrões ambientais e sociais para estes setores tem sido debatida em nível internacional, sobretudo no contexto do acordo comercial UE-Mercosul e das conferências sobre o clima global. Neste estudo, analisamos as relações de poder que permeiam a governança ambiental em nível nacional e as iniciativas Global Tailings Review (iniciada pelo ICMM - International Council on Mining and Metals) e seu modelo FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) em nível internacional. Nossas observações empíricas estão focadas nas experiências de gestão ambiental e de catástrofes colocadas em prática após a ruptura das barragens de Mariana (2015) e de Brumadinho (2019) - que desencadearam os maiores desastres sócio-técnicos do Brasil - e as certificações de plantações de eucalipto em Minas Gerais e no extremo sul da Bahia. Os resultados mostram que nos órgãos aparentemente participativos, a reprodução dos mecanismos de poder guarda similitudes com práticas autoritárias características dos tempos do coronelismo durante a República Velha (1889- 1930). Neste sentido, identificaremos o sistema ambiental em Minas Gerais como um "regime ambiental coronelista". De forma surpreendente, a práxis das iniciativas internacionais de certificação ocorre em moldes similares, assim como suas estratégias em relação às pessoas afetadas pelos projetos certificados e seus apoiadores. Em meio a esse contexto, está em curso a 4ª revolução industrial em ambos os setores, levando à digitalização e à automação completa dos processos de produção. Já é evidente que não se gera trabalho nem renda, tampouco se pode esperar receitas estatais devido aos privilégios fiscais concedidos aos dois setores. Portanto, o extrativismo modernizado representa um crescimento sem desenvolvimento. As áreas de produção caraterizadas por um vazio demográfico, simbolizam, portanto, a perfeição de um modelo de desenvolvimento permeado pela lógica colonial, da qual apenas uma pequena elite se beneficia, enquanto as classes mais pobres anteriormente exploradas já não são mais necessárias. Esse cenário nos faz questionar a contribuição de fato do extrativismo certificado 4.0 para uma maior justiça ambiental.

In contemporary history, advanced technologies have become important areas of argument and discussion as they are intricately connected to our development and survivability. World War II gave rise to numerous new technologies, and later the United States Defense Department's interest contributed to the discovery and invention of various technological advancements. Since the midtwentieth century, the impact of technology on society has raised serious questions about the transformation of humans and societies in the face of technological apartheid. Philosophers from

En este artículo se plantea una revisión teórica del desarrollo seguido por muchas de las principales investigaciones sobre cuidados y de la centralidad que el feminismo les ha otorgado. Argumentamos que ello ha llevado a concebir los cuidados como complejos procesos socioprácticos que son fundamentales para las subjetividades, el consenso social y la perpetuación de un mundo común. La posterior indagación en la interdependencia de tales prácticas, las éticas de los cuidados y la emergencia de una perspectiva posthumanista nos permite desbordar esa concepción, caracterizando la lógica de los cuidados como una lógica de ajustes continuos y defendiendo el paso de aquellas éticas a una eventual ontología de materializaciones del cuidar que es inevitablemente política y altera nuestra concepción de lo humano y su inserción en el entorno.

When Anglo-Saxon warriors buckled on gem encrusted, intricately wrought gold arms and armor, they did not merely transform their appearance, but shifted their fundamental ontology. We consider objects from the Staffordshire Hoard as embodiments of fah and aelf-sciéne, specifically Anglo-Saxon ideas of visual splendor, and the modern notion of bling in order to excavate their role in the transformation of men into posthuman teratological wonders. We strive to imagine the hoard not as a series of objects but as embodied apparatuses inextricable from those who wore them and from the violence they were intended to fend off, yet accelerate.

Resumo: neste artigo, apresenta-se uma análise do filme Joker (2019) de Todd Phillips. O filme é compreendido no gênero estudo de personagem e aqui considerado sob a contínua frustração de expectativas na narrativa fílmica operadas pelo comportamento do personagem principal, bem como do seu insucesso em estabelecer conexões de modo a lograr um sentimento de pertencimento. Essas características, a simbologia desvelada e os argumentos da análise aqui proposta serão apoiadas por conteúdos presentes no roteiro, na música original, na expressão corporal, intertextualidades e ilustradas por elementos cinematográficos. Espera-se com esse exercício hermenêutico desvendar camadas de significação veladas no roteiro e não apreensíveis em uma observação passiva do filme. Palavras-chave: Joker; despertencimento social; quebra de expectativas; estudo de personagem.

20 2002), inevitably engaged with the abiding concern for the spatial, 'travel' qualities of tourism. 10 'Mobilities' became a name that is cultural or paradigmatic itself (Mavrič and Urry 2007), and that also 'mobilises culture' (Urry and Sheller 2004). Aligning the travel component of tourism with a general 'mobilities movement' made explicit links between tourism and second homes, migration, work-travel and diaspora, fulfilling those early links anticipated by Cohen's (1974) observations of the partiality of tourism. In its widest sense mobilities involves the movement of people, objects and texts or signs 11 however, as a global theory as opposed to an empirical reality it serves to give space the same weightlessness as culture (Favell 2001:394). This means that mobilities adds to travel what culture adds to leisure and the scale of tourism becomes recognisably global. The 'leisure explosion' of which tourism was a part became part of a 'larger cultural revolution' (Bailey 1989: 111) that is the 'modern consumer society'. Through this the global acts as both a 'transcendence' (Mavrič and Urry 2009:650) and a 'convergence' theory describing a commonality that is albeit "more varied, more generous, and more rewarding" (Golby and Purdue 1984 in Bailey 1989:117). Reworded as 'culture' and 'mobilities', both leisure and travel as the two orienting principles of tourism move into a shared, much bigger sphere of the global. It is this relocation up a level that dissolves the comparatively smaller separateness between tourism and everything left over as 'non-tourism'. [O]n the contrary, tourism has become a widespread, protean practice that occurs in mundane settings, everyday routines and home cities as well as farflung places (Edensor 2007: 545). 'Early tourism' now qualifies as a predecessor to postmodernism (Galani-Moutafi 2000:216) where 'the everyday world' also becomes global. 12 The forming up of this 'planetary consciousness' (Pratt 1992 in Favero 2007:51) also means old ways of thinking about tourism are replaced with new ones; old subjects like tourists are amended with new ones like 'post tourists' (Feifer in Urry 1990:100). The 'tourist gaze' itself (Urry 1990) once useful for 10 The fickleness of meaning and its realisation in our tendency to 'construct' needs to be translated to a weightless form like culture in order to be so fickle.

This paper approaches the polemics on (inter)disciplinarity in design from a frequently overlooked viewpoint: that of the design-artifact itself. It is, in that sense, a critique of current (inter)disciplinary discourse itself (as opposed to taking sides in the debate). Discourses on ...

The endeavour of the present paper is to trace the roots of what we know as patriarchy in common usage or utterance. Is patriarchy essentially a term associated with oppression/repression, especially of women? Is it some invisible codified, institutionalised, uniform, homogenous set of values/beliefs/concepts; propagated by the father of the family/household, who is supposedly the head of it? Is the notion of patriarchy same across culture, race, religion, region, caste, and ethnicity; or is it different in nature? Is the notion of 'patriarchy' same across time? In a country like India, which has always been a confluence of several caste, class, religion, and ethnicity; how can we arrive at a uniform, homogenous definition of patriarchy? When did 'patriarchy' come into being? Is the term 'patriarchy' synonymous/coterminous with masculinity, which implies having 'male' characteristics and biological attributes, or, are they different? Also, is there somewhere a commonality of nature in the males in general all over the world, as being 'repressors' of women? In other words, do all the males across the world share some kind of solidarity or 'kinship' with each other in terms of having the privileged access to the hierarchical power relations? If we apply terms like 'patriarchy' and 'masculinity' synonymously/interchangeably, then are not we making a slight mistake somewhere; because, in spite of both the words being connected to the 'males,' or, 'male-centrism' in general; 'patriarchy' etymologically denotes the rule of the father ('pita'/'patriarch') who is definitely a male, but, it is not that all the males are biological fathers. Then can we use the term patriarchy to designate all the males? Are the women in the society only victims of patriarchy, or, are the males/men equally burdened by it psychologically? If the women of the society bear the brunt of patriarchal oppression, then would the degree of that oppression be same in case of an upper class, educated, employed woman, and, a poor, uneducated Dalit, or, a Muslim woman? Also, is patriarchal oppression mostly psychological/mental, or, is it physical as well? Can we refer to the incidents of wife-beating (by the husbands), eve-teasing, sexual harassment (of the females) at workplaces, gruesome rape incidents, molestations all as instances of patriarchal oppression, or, as something more? Can we actually call a rapist, or, a molester a patriarch, or, a pervert, a maniac, a devil rather? How do we look at the several instances of married women filing false dowry cases, or, misusing section 498A IPC to file a false domestic violence case against the husband and the in-laws, or, filing a maintenance case against the husband to squeeze money for harassment? Has the term patriarchy somewhere become nonfunctional in recent times when it has to operate around such terms like liberalisation, globalization, women-empowerment, feminism, equal rights etc? Has patriarchy today become an extinct term, that is only being circulated and practised only to foster and sustain several counter-discourses; or, has it still got an existence, a body? Does biology/anatomy determine the fate of an individual, or, the social construction? Or, how much does biology, and, how much does society?

El discurso posthumanista esta empezando a hacerse sentir en el contexto educativo y particularmente en el ambito escolar. Una de las primeras cuestiones que esas transformaciones paradigmaticas suscitan en este contexto se insertan en el ambito de la etica, requiriendo mayores reflexiones sobre una posible etica posthumana en la educacion. El objetivo de este articulo, desarrollado por investigacion de caracter bibliografico, fue abordar esta cuestion, delineado la emergencia del Posthumanismo en el contexto educativo y las cuestiones eticas implicadas, y presentando contribuciones del pensamiento latinoamericano para esta reflexion.

Together with Paul Gilroy she has recently edited the volume Conflicting Humanities (2016). CV: Your latest book is called The Posthuman. In consideration of your philosophical development, which is rooted in the study of Foucault, in an uninterrupted dialogue with Deleuze as well as in feminism and feminist activism, could you explain how your idea of posthumanism developed? In other words, what have been your transitions on the way towards posthumanism? RB: For me as a student of Foucault, Deleuze and Irigaray, the crisis of Humanism means the rejection of all forms of universalism, including the socialist variation. "Man" cannot claim to represent all humanity because that "Man" is a culture-specific, gender-specific, race-specific and classspecific entity: is it a European, male, white, intellectual ideal. Moreover, that ideal posits itself as a norm that everyone else is supposed to imitate and aspire to; but all those who differ from the Eurocentric, masculinist, white, intellectual norm are classified as "different from' it. And being "different from" means "to be worth less than". This hierarchical organization of difference as negative becomes a very politicized issue for feminists, post-colonial and anti-racist thinkers.

La abundancia de métodos de experimentación artística es algo que requiere de metodologías alternativas para su estudio y su evaluación. «Diffractive Interfaces» es una propuesta de investigación que se centra en la relación arte-pedagogía y posibilita una interacción dinámica entre agencias mediante la experimentación con diferentes patrones y posibilidades relacionales facilitando la búsqueda de otras formas de (re)presentación y gestualidades en el contexto de las interfaces culturales. Tanto los procesos de trabajo como los resultados de «Diffractive Interfaces» se caracterizan por un procedimiento interdisciplinario de apropiación y de interacción entre investigación científica e investigación artística por medio del uso de la tecnología, la biología, la sociología, la crítica, la música, el arte y la filosofía. Palabras clave interfaz, investigación artística, metodología difractiva Diffractive Interfaces: diffraction as an artistic research methodology

En este artículo se plantea una revisión teórica del desarrollo seguido por muchas de las principales investigaciones sobre cuidados y de la centralidad que el feminismo les ha otorgado. Argumentamos que ello ha llevado a concebir los cuidados como complejos procesos socioprácticos que son fundamentales para las subjetividades, el consenso social y la perpetuación de un mundo común. La posterior indagación en la interdependencia de tales prácticas, las éticas de los cuidados y la emergencia de una perspectiva posthumanista nos permite desbordar esa concepción, caracterizando la lógica de los cuidados como una lógica de ajustes continuos y defendiendo el paso de aquellas éticas a una eventual ontología de materializaciones del cuidar que es inevitablemente política y altera nuestra concepción de lo humano y su inserción en el entorno.

is doctoral thesis examines contemporary human relationships with animals in a Western context by means of three 'relational' art projects produced by Snaebjörnsdóttir/ Wilson-nanoq: fl at out and bluesome; (a)fl y; and seal. It explores the research and visual art methodologies employed in the art projects, tracing their relationship with writings on human-animal relations. ese artworks engage their audiences in a series of 'encounters' with the subject, in which perceived dualities are made to meet, e.g. haunting and hunting, perfection and imperfection, the real and the unreal. ese dualities are important in theorizing this 'relational' space where the eclipse of the 'real' animal occurs through its representation and in giving shape to questions on the construction and the limits of these boundaries, embedded within and arising from the artworks.

What is disclosed in the questioning of the human being in post-humanism? Addressing this question in congruence with Heidegger's questioning of being in Being and Time, we end up with two discoveries: first, that the characteristic of Dasein, as the being of the questioning, already carries the same implications as the post-human figure, and second, that questioning in this sense is indicative of the effort of realizing a new scientific space for conceptualizing the human being as non-substantialist. conceived of in this way, however, post-humanism is a result of a very human effort indeed.

RESUMO Partindo-se da noção de “outros estruturais” do sujeito projetado/produzido pela tradição humanista, apresentada por Braidotti (2011; 2013; 2016), defende-se que as tecnologias da escrita, notadamente o texto e o livro, são elementos constitutivos do sujeito do humanismo e que tais tecnologias têm seus “outros estruturais” a serem também considerados. Através do exame de escritas ditas “menores” produzidas por interlocutores relevantes do pensamento pós-humanista crítico e de outros tipos de escrita produzidos por dois artistas contemporâneos, que atuam no campo da dramaturgia e das artes plásticas, procura-se demonstrar como funcionam esses outros dos modelos de escrita consolidados pela tradição humanista, notadamente os modelos grafocêntricos do racionalismo tecno-científico. Na medida em que favorecem a produção de devires por um sujeito material e situacionalmente encarnado, em contraposição a um cógito ou consciência transcendental desencarnada, afirma-se que os tipos d...

Partiendo de la concepción de sujeto post-humano, entendido por Rosi Braidotti y Donna Haraway como una construcción nómade y múltiple en la que el vínculo con lo tecnológico y con el medio ambiente resultan constitutivos, propongo analizar cruces entre especies en tres relatos de dos escritoras del Río de la Plata, de la segunda mitad del siglo XX: “Las viejas fantasiosas” (1981), de la argentina tucumana Elvira Orphée, y “Misa de Pascua” y “Misa de amor” (1993), de la uruguaya Marosa di Giorgio. Me detendré en la reescritura del mito de Circe en el primer relato y en las metamorfosis que tienen lugar a partir de una desbordante imaginería erótica en los dos últimos, como así también en ciertos recursos narratológicos disruptivos respecto del canon cuentístico del género fantástico escrito por autores masculinos, para interrogar figuraciones de lo post-humano en el marco de estas producciones literarias.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the design of the Deep House project (Fig. 1), an attempt to use estrangement as a method to emancipate a house from a canonical approach to the progressive design of a one-family house project. The main argument in this text is that the results created by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), whether in the form of GANs, CNNs, or other networks, generate results that fall into the category of Estranged objects. In this article, I would like to offer a possible definition of what architecture in this plateau of thinking represents and how it differentiates from previous attempts to use estrangement to explain the phenomena observed when working with NNs in architecture design. A potpourri of thoughts that demonstrate the intellectual tradition of exploring estrangement, especially in theater and literature, that ultimately circles back to its implications for architecture, particularly in light...

RESUMO: Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre as atividades Previously e Newsletter como propostas que tiveram um expressivo envolvimento estudantil no conjunto de ações artísticopedagógicas do Campo Remoto. O Campo Remoto foi o projeto de ensino emergencial remoto dos cursos de Bacharelado em Artes Visuais da Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná da Universidade Estadual do Paraná, e promoveu atividades síncronas e assíncronas em ambiente virtual no ano de 2020, em decorrência da pandemia de Covid-19. O presente texto é construído 1 Artista e professora adjunta no Bacharelado em Artes Visuais do Centro de Artes da UNESPAR, Campus Curitiba I-EMBAP. Doutora em Artes Visuais pelo PPGAV

This paper contends that a robust concept of the technosphere-indeed one that is truly adequate to the Anthropocene-must be approached using a plurality of methods that do not categorize agencies or rely on hierarchical scalar analysis. In this commentary, we draw from feminist science studies scholar Karen Barad's philosophy of agential realism, and in particular her concept of "intra-action," to identify the technosphere as emergent from entangled practices, sites and infrastructures, and to trace the technosphere from the "meso" scale to subatomic and cosmological realms of force and energy. We demonstrate the value of a critical, intra-active approach to technical assemblages by thinking the technosphere concept with and within a vast experimental apparatus: the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.

Life in the era of biotechnology opens up opportunities but also poses challenges related to our values ​​and questions regarding the way we want to see coexistence on our planet, which is inhabited by many species. The parasite is our case study and an interesting concept that we inherit from biology but which is also addressed in humanism and philosophy. As humans, we commonly understand the concept of a parasite as a negative one that suggests someone or something which benefits at our expense. However, French philosopher Michel Serres had a different view of the parasite. According to him, the parasite is based on relationships between different entities, and there is often noise in these relationships. Serres refers to biologist Henri Atlan, who has argued that said noise forces the system to reorganize itself in a way that incorporates the noise into the complex system. The idea of ​​noise as an integrated part of the system is quite far from today’s thought processes with the...

This paper looks at both theoretical and practical research on embodied knowledges and fermented foods. The paper consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I discuss the history of human-microbial socioecological relations from 7000 BCE to the present. My second chapter describes my experience of teaching two fermentation workshops. I include a discussion of the participants' description of their experiences with integrating embodied knowledges, as well as a consideration of how their perceptions of bacteria changed over the course of the workshop. I also look at the class and gendered politics of fermentation workshops in this chapter. In both chapters, I follow Alexis Shotwell's argument against purity politics which "shuts down precisely the field of possibility that might allow us to take better collective action against the destruction of the world in all its strange, delightful, impure frolic" (9). I argue instead for complicated companion species relationships in order reimagine bacteria as pleasurable kin rather than microbial antagonists.

This paper explores the impact post-human stance has on the study of the learning process. It shows how this new paradigm which focuses upon the relationship between human and non-human modifies our understanding of education. First, we argue that the educational debate is largely inspired by an anthropocentric perspective. It is grounded in the notion of human self-determination and it neglects the role of non-human factors in the learner's development. Furthermore, non-humans (both animals and machines) are usually considered as something to be used: in other words, they are instruments. This fact notwithstanding, there is a small minority of contemporary learning theories that investigate the relationship between human and non-human from a non-anthropocentric point of view. An overview of these theories is offered in the second part of the paper. Finally the use of Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in educational research will be explored to show one of the possible non-anthropocentric methods of conceiving and investigating the learning process. According to ANT, learning can be interpreted as the effect of a network made up of heterogeneous elements, both human and non-human.

Much has been argued within the fertile critical field of feminism in the second half of the twentieth century.  With the advantage of distance from the twenty-first century, we can now gain a certain perspective on the general context of production and reception of feminist criticism as it becomes embodied in new myths that subvert the old phallogocentric ones.  My approach intends to start a dialogue between such embodiments (mainly in the work of Cixous, Hayles, de Beauvoir, and Haraway) and Karen Barad’s agential materialism, using her critical construct of “phenomenon” as an instrument to understand the feminist paradigm in the post-human context and proposing accountable diffractive intra-action as an alternative to naturalized constructs.

A quali condizioni l'umanesimo può trasformarsi in post-umanesimo? In questo saggio cerchiamo di argomentare a favore di un'ontologia in cui la dif-ferenza tra un essere umano e un cavolfiore, cioè quella del dualismo soggetto-oggetto, collassa su se stessa. Per Sartre il cavolfiore rappresenta l'opposto dell'essere umano. Cercheremo pertanto di sostenere che in realtà anche nell'esistenzialismo di Sartre si può trovare un possibile movimento verso il post-umano. Un movimento che di fatto Sartre non intraprende, ma che tuttavia è potenzialmente implicito nell'Esistenzialismo è un umanesimo.

Lavra é um documentário híbrido que tanto mapeia os diferentes danos da atividade mineradora em Minas Gerais quanto narra o processo de luto de uma personagem fictícia frente a morte de um rio. Instigado pela ruptura da Barragem do Fundão em novembro de 2015, o longa-metragem executa uma cartografia "psicoterrática" da catástrofe, descrevendo transformações no território ocupado pelo extrativismo a partir dos impactos ambientais e das mudanças no próprio relevo da região, mas também a partir dos desejos e das subjetividades das pessoas que ali habitam. Buscando tecer um quadro conceitual entre ecologia crítica e psicanálise a fim de melhor descrever como desastres ambientais nos afetam no âmbito da subjetividade política, este artigo analisa como Lavra elabora o sofrimento em sua narrativa, performando um luto ecológico em que a categoria de atingido é constantemente revisada e ampliada para abarcar a própria narradora, que se vê engajada com as comunidades e paisagens que visita.

Este estudo faz uma breve revisão do percurso do ateliê do artista na história da arte, situando sua importância em alguns momentos da história, chegando ao contemporâneo. Em uma análise da importância desse espaço de criação para o resultado plástico artístico, abordam-se, entre outros, Joe Fig e Juarez Machado, como exemplos de artistas que têm o ateliê como seu espaço de criação e refúgio sagrado, mas também, em certos casos, o ateliê como temática na criação artística. Palavras-chave: Ateliê de artista. História da Arte. Joe Fig. Juarez Machado.

Este artículo trata de cómo nuestra comprensión del lenguaje y del pensamiento ha sido transformada por el lenguaje informático. Lo virtual requiere un análisis filosófico respecto a su relación con lo real. La hiper-realidad sustituye a la realidad porque el acceso al mundo es cada vez más tecnológico, representacional; ello genera un lenguaje específico con propiedades particulares. La tecnología supone también la aparición del estatus de lo post-humano y la amplificación de nuestra experiencia del mundo. Lo hiper-real sustituye a lo real en cuanto el acceso a la realidad se amplifica de forma inusitada gracias a lo tecnológico. Lo virtual tecnológico supone el nacimiento de una nueva categoría, que analizada desde el pensamiento de Nietzsche adquiere un contexto histórico clarificador. En el lenguaje computerizado el signo se convierte en hipersigno y los viejos problemas metafísicos se desvanecen en una cultura tecnológica que los vacía de significado.

This paper is divided into two realms. The first portion aims at addressing the post-humanist developments that continually assay to evolve whilst ambivalently opining about the castaways of the world who are the end products of tech-chrysalis. Simultaneously, the second section tries to focus on those very machines that try hard and fast to aid the e migr e and refugees. It also attempts to understand the conflicting positions of politics, technology and humanity. Keywords: Post-humanism; Robots; Refugees; Technology; Aid and Rescue.