Posthuman Critical Theory

Braidotti, Rosi

doi:10.5325/jpoststud.1.1.0009

Cited by 328 publications

(612 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

403

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Different to the task of including nonhuman others, our focus on practising post‐humanism begins with refiguring the moralising constraints imposed on the doing of our thinking (Todd & Hynes, ). It does so by drawing on a series of workshops that were originally developed for a postgraduate Master's course, the aim of which was to explore and further advance methodological innovations for human geography in light of post‐humanism's “decentring” of the human subject (Braidotti, ; Wolfe, ). Each workshop was motivated by the possibility of reimagining a particular practice common to geographical research, from “writing” and “listening,” to “archiving,” “imaging,” and “sensing.” Rather than instrumentalise, the aim of each workshop was to explore and examine – i.e., to “workshop” – how post‐humanist theories might reconfigure these research practices.…”

Section: Practising Post‐humanism: Why Now?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Williams

Patchett

Lapworth

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Post-humanist theories shaping contemporary geographic research have unsettled the privileged position of the "human" as a common reference to apprehend social life. This decentring of the human demands that we rethink our expectations of, and approaches to, methodological practice and the traditional distinctions made between the theoretical and the empirical. In this introduction and the following interventions, we explore how a material situatedness and attention to nonhuman agencies within post-humanist thought complement and extend existing methodological innovations within human geography. We do so with reference to a series of Masters workshopsa somewhat overlooked space of research-creationeach of which explored the implications of post-humanism on methodological practice. The introduction concludes with three key tenets that were followed in each of the individual workshops, and which set out an ethos for practising post-humanism more broadly. K E Y W O R D S experimentation, geographic method, Masters workshops, nonhuman intensities, post-humanist theory, theory/practice divide 1 | PRACTISING POST-HUMANISM: WHY NOW?Recently, there has been a push to explore more experimental orientations to the "doing" of research and to develop practices that problematise methodological assumptions pertaining to rigour, reliability, and representation within geography (Dowling et al., 2016(Dowling et al., , 2017(Dowling et al., , 2018Vannini, 2015;Whatmore, 2006). In this paper we contribute to these exciting debates by engaging with the way post-humanist theoretical innovations shaping contemporary human geography require us to rethink the empirical demands and methodological responsibilities of geographical research. In bringing the material and affective registers of social life to the fore, post-humanist theories have the potential to reconfigure our relation to research practices in ways that trouble the traditional distinction between the theoretical and the empirical. It is in this potential for capturing novel aspects of contemporary social and cultural life, in excess of human durations, that we situate our concern for the practice of post-humanism within human geography.Responding to the call to experiment methodologically, the turn to more-than-human geographies has done much to broaden the remit of contemporary research to include the agency of the nonhuman in shaping social life. As Bastian et al. (2016, p. 2) note, a key concern here is "to take nonhuman life, and the entanglements of human/nonhuman life seriously" in the production of geographical knowledge. This concern is precisely about the challenge of attending to diverse nonhuman agencies in ways that demand different approaches to the act of doing geographical research. In turning to the relationship between post-humanism and geographical research (Braun,

show abstract

Section: Practising Post‐humanism: Why Now?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Williams

Patchett

Lapworth

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…14 She continues, "the concept of the human has exploded under the double pressure of contemporary scientific advances and global economic concerns" and we have, thus, "entered the post-human predicament." 15 Yet the inevitability of the posthuman overcoming of the human is, as Braidotti acknowledges, based on an understanding of the human in Enlightenment terms; that is, philosophical, essentialized, and universalistic.…”

Section: Edward Said and Humanism Of Democratic Critical Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Humanism/Posthumanism Debate: The Educational Implications of Said's Critical, Humane Praxis

Chatelier

2017

Educational Theory

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The late Edward Said sought to place critique and, indeed, self-critique at the heart of humanism. While the posthuman critiques surrounding the (im)possibility of humanism in postmodern times tend to focus on human autonomy, rationality, and essentialism, Stephen Chatelier here explores the idea that Said's writing on humanism could help us shift the focus from issues of ontology towards those of practice. Such a move, he argues, prioritizes the ethico-political aspect of human engagement. Rather than making an attempt to defend Enlightenment or Eurocentric forms of humanism, Chatelier probes two distinct possibilities that arise from Said's democratic humanism. First, he considers to what extent a construction of humanism as practice can enable us to see critical posthumanism as a form of Saidian humanism. Second, he explores how (post)humanist discourse might continue to be of use in precipitating thinking among educators about ethico-political imperatives of education in an era shaped by complex cultural and political relations and a dominant neoliberal rationality.

show abstract

“…68 What Braidotti provide ways to actually talk of much more than just the posthuman; the expanded sense of the term is less focused on the human than on 'complex singularities' with multiple scales of reference far beyond the human--social. 70 Braidotti insists on recognising the role women's, gender and queer studies, alongside postcolonial studies, have played in developing radical epistemologies of historical situations where the human has been negotiated in relation to the nonhuman-in institutions with specific gender and sexual biases, in colonial practices, and so on. 71 It is by way of radical epistemologies as much as radical art practices and aesthetic notions that we can develop ways to grasp the sense of how the posthuman actually entails a larger transversal line that can also be carved out in terms of its geological, geographical and geophysical forces.…”

Section: Volume21 Number2 Sep2015mentioning

confidence: 99%

Earth Forces: Contemporary Land Arts, Technology and New Materialist Aesthetics

Parikka

2015

CSR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article addresses recent art projects that are discussed under the notion of new materialist aesthetics. This term is used to elaborate connections between these projects and their methods and recent discussions of the nonhuman and posthuman philosophy. The article also elaborates some positions in technological or 'media art' practices that work on hardware and infrastructure but also on the geophysical underpinnings of media. It expands on more geocentric perspectives in art and aesthetics through connecting a range of such projects by a contemporary artists including Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Ryan Jordan, Terike Haapoja, Jamie Allen and David Gauthier to the body of land art (as represented by Robert Smithson) and current new materialist discussions.

show abstract

Posthuman Critical Theory

Cited by 328 publications

References 22 publications

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Practising post‐humanism in geographical research

Beyond the Humanism/Posthumanism Debate: The Educational Implications of Said's Critical, Humane Praxis

Earth Forces: Contemporary Land Arts, Technology and New Materialist Aesthetics

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About