Our project is aimed at addressing the problematics stemming from the co-imbrication of technologies, socio-political environments and ecologies. It is our contention that the unprecedented perturbations emanating from this entanglement have enormous destabilising effects for ideas and practices related to “the good life” – an ethico-philosophical question stretching back to Socrates who exclaimed that the unexamined life is not worth living.
To address issues such as the speed of technological innovation, the collapse of ecosystems, and the intensive balkanisation of societies, we turn to posthumanism – a broad term that has come to encompass many fields and schools of thought, including the new materialisms, bioethics, techno- and cyber-feminisms, Deleuzian philosophy, cybernetics, technology, and environmental and Anthropocene studies. Posthumanism suggests an urgency for the need to redefine the human, away from dichotomous and anthropocentric thinking, by deconstructing key assumptions of the humanist tradition and challenging the centrality of the human in research, as well as the prioritisation of a specific form of “rational” reasoning, and the implications of human exceptionalism that is built into the foundation of how humanists and post-enlightenment thinkers have characterised the relations between humans and other humans, between humans and animals, between the human and inhuman, between subject and object, and between nature and technology.
It is our hope that these tools will enable both the participants and ourselves to reimagine the art of living in postcolonial conditions.
Project members: Profs. Chantelle Gray and Janae Scholtz
Prof. Janae Sholtz is a Fulbright Specialist and visiting Professor from Alvernia University. She is the author of The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (2015). Prof. Sholtz has published research in the areas of Continental philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of art, posthumanism, and social and political philosophy. She has a strong interest in aesthetic practices and how the affects created through these practices contribute to a new ethos that can be shared and transmitted on social and political levels.
Our project is aimed at addressing the problematics stemming from the co-imbrication of technologies, socio-political environments and ecologies. It is our contention that the unprecedented perturbations emanating from this entanglement have enormous destabilising effects for ideas and practices related to “the good life” – an ethico-philosophical question stretching back to Socrates who exclaimed that the […]
Our project is aimed at addressing the problematics stemming from the co-imbrication of technologies, socio-political environments and ecologies. It is our contention that the unprecedented perturbations emanating from this entanglement have enormous destabilising effects for ideas and practices related to “the good life” – an ethico-philosophical question stretching back to Socrates who exclaimed that the unexamined life is not worth living.
To address issues such as the speed of technological innovation, the collapse of ecosystems, and the intensive balkanisation of societies, we turn to posthumanism – a broad term that has come to encompass many fields and schools of thought, including the new materialisms, bioethics, techno- and cyber-feminisms, Deleuzian philosophy, cybernetics, technology, and environmental and Anthropocene studies. Posthumanism suggests an urgency for the need to redefine the human, away from dichotomous and anthropocentric thinking, by deconstructing key assumptions of the humanist tradition and challenging the centrality of the human in research, as well as the prioritisation of a specific form of “rational” reasoning, and the implications of human exceptionalism that is built into the foundation of how humanists and post-enlightenment thinkers have characterised the relations between humans and other humans, between humans and animals, between the human and inhuman, between subject and object, and between nature and technology.
It is our hope that these tools will enable both the participants and ourselves to reimagine the art of living in postcolonial conditions.
Project members: Profs. Chantelle Gray and Janae Scholtz
Prof. Janae Sholtz is a Fulbright Specialist and visiting Professor from Alvernia University. She is the author of The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (2015). Prof. Sholtz has published research in the areas of Continental philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of art, posthumanism, and social and political philosophy. She has a strong interest in aesthetic practices and how the affects created through these practices contribute to a new ethos that can be shared and transmitted on social and political levels.
Our project is aimed at addressing the problematics stemming from the co-imbrication of technologies, socio-political environments and ecologies. It is our contention that the unprecedented perturbations emanating from this entanglement have enormous destabilising effects for ideas and practices related to “the good life” – an ethico-philosophical question stretching back to Socrates who exclaimed that the […]