Performance and Posthumanism: Co-Creation, Response-Ability and Epistemologies

Stalpaert, Christel; Baarle, Kristof van; Karreman, Laura

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“…In other words, on the one hand, in order to retheorize and redefine our understandings of subjectivity, agency, causality and the universe, Barad draws on the insights of quantum theory; on the other hand, like Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, she rejects the binary oppositions that have dominated Western thought in favour of a more nuanced understanding of the intricate relationships between humans and other animals, all of which she believes possess agency. After Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto published in 1985, Stalpaert and her colleagues also uncover the interrelations between cyborgs and entangled human bodies, to them, the cyborg can equitably be called the prevailing conceptualization of the entanglement of human bodies and technology (Stalpaert, C., et al, 2021). As indicated, in time, the entangled human bodies are on the verge of transforming into cyborgs through technology.…”

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Reinterpreting human in the digital age: From anthropocentricism to posthumanism and transhumanism

TÜFEKCİ CAN

2023

Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning

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This paper builds its arguments on the (re)interpretation of ‘human’ and its entanglements with nonhumans, namely ‘the others’, in the digital age, also called the information age, which started in the 1970s with the introduction of personal computers. Since the concept of humanness has prominently transformed into something innovative as a result of immense improvements in science and technology, and thereby society, terms such as human, nonhuman, posthuman, and transhuman including cyborgs, have emerged as concepts that require to be reinterpreted in the digital age. In a planet where cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, 5G technology, autonomous vehicles, quantum computers, genetic engineering, edge computing, microchips, green tech, and hydrogen fuel cells are commonly regarded as innovative inventions of the 21st century, the positions of humans are decentralized and displaced from centralized to more peripheric spheres. Beginning from anthropocentrism, in other words human-centeredness, broadly defined as a thought process that makes humans the primary measure of everything, this paper exposes the (trans)formation of humans from anthropocentricism to posthumanism and paradoxically from posthumanism to transhumanism by drawing upon the philosophical discussions of Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Cary Wolfe, Francesca Ferrando and others. Unlike anthropocentricism, posthumanism, as a philosophical and critical theory, attempts to replace humankind by responding to the presence of anthropocentricism in the 21st century. On the other hand, whereas posthumanism, by rejecting any privileges founded on anthropocentric dominance, has challenged the notion that humans are the primary measure of everything on the planet since 1990s, transhumanism emphasizes the continuity of human improvement through technological means that attempt to enhance human capabilities beyond their current biological boundaries. By interrogating the socio-cultural existence of humans through epistemological and ontological viewpoints since the very beginning of humanism, namely a philosophy that places central emphasis on the human realm, this paper attempts to (re)define the place of humans in the digital age with a focus on the relationship between human and nonhuman beings and their entanglements.

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Section: Human and Nonhuman Entanglementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reinterpreting human in the digital age: From anthropocentricism to posthumanism and transhumanism

TÜFEKCİ CAN

2023

Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning

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The black box aesthetics: performative dynamics between artificial intelligence and human interactive staging

Befera

2023

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

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Towards a posthuman turn in drag: Will the queer ever be human?

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Zitzelsberger

2023

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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What is drag? (How) can we understand drag performance beyond gender? Given the growing trend in drag performance towards the un/gendered non/post/in/human, we reconsider what, precisely, makes a performance drag. Integrating insights from queer theory, performance studies and critical posthumanism, this editorial develops a framework to not only provide an orientation to the individual contributions of this Special Issue, but also argue for a larger theoretical turn in drag scholarship. We consider the composite materiality of and relationship between the human performer and their posthuman drag, and propose that the act of dragging, which can use, but does not exclusively rely on gender, constitutes a more expansive queer performance modality that makes the familiar strange, yet allows for recognition in what is otherwise unintelligible. Posthuman drag celebrates the abject, the marginal and the un/imaginable, shifts the focus from disaster to potentiality and imagines a future in which queers can be human.

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Performance and Posthumanism: Co-Creation, Response-Ability and Epistemologies

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Reinterpreting human in the digital age: From anthropocentricism to posthumanism and transhumanism

Reinterpreting human in the digital age: From anthropocentricism to posthumanism and transhumanism

The black box aesthetics: performative dynamics between artificial intelligence and human interactive staging

Towards a posthuman turn in drag: Will the queer ever be human?

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