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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9781509535279
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2019
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