Name: Posthuman Knowledge
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Author: Rosi Braidotti
ISBN: 9781509535262

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rosi Braidotti

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

210

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781509535262

Synopsis "Posthuman Knowledge"

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.

Rosi Braidotti

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Rosi Braidotti es una filósofa feminista de la tradición continental; profesora universitaria emérita distinguida de la Universidad de Utrecht (Países Bajos) y profesora honoraria del Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Posee títulos en filosofía de la ANU y de la Sorbona, así como doctorados honoris causa de las universidades de Helsinki (2007) y Linköping (2013). Es miembro honorario de la Academia Australiana de Humanidades (FAHA) y miembro de la Academia Europaea. En 2022 recibió el Premio de Investigación Humboldt por su contribución académica a lo largo de su trayectoria. Sus publicaciones principales incluyen: *Nomadic Subjects* (2011a) y *Nomadic Theory* (2011b), de Columbia University Press; *The Posthuman* (2013), *Posthuman Knowledge* (2019) y *Posthuman Feminism* (2022), de Polity Press; y *The Posthuman Glossary* (2018) y *More Posthuman Glossary* (2022), de Bloomsbury Academic.

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