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NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK
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REMINDER: A WAY FOR PROMOTING YOUR EVENTS / CFPs / NEWS: We have create an online form that you can use for promoting your events through the Newsletter of the Global Posthuman Network, which currently counts with around 1100 international members. There is no fee to submit. All submissions will be reviewed and, if found in tune with the posthuman turn, will be published in our next Newsletter. Please, keep in mind that the Newsletter is bimonthly, so if you send an event that expires by the time we send the Newsletter, we will not be able to publish it. Thanks for your interest.
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BOOK PRESENTATION BY RICK DOLPHIJN - OCTOBER 7
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Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht) will give a presentation related to his most recent book on October 7, 2021. The talk takes place 10:00-11:30 (EDT) on Zoom. Please see link below to log on or contact Mitch Goldsmith (mg12vh@brocku.ca).
“The Wounds that Matter”
In my recently published monograph, The Philosophy of Matter; a meditation, one of the key concepts is ‘the wound’. Much inspired by literature and the arts, this talk aims to explore woundedness in different ways; how wounds bring us together? How are we “born to embody” our wounds, as Joë Bousquet would say it? And what is pain teaching us about the non-fascist life?
Dr. Rick Dolphijn is an Associate Professor at Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, and a Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2023). He published widely on new materialism, posthumanism and affect theory. His monograph The Philosophy of Matter: a meditation was published with Bloomsbury Academic in August 2021
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SYMPOSIUM: POSTHUMANISM AND WORLDBUILDING - OCTOBER 9-10
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OCTOBER 9TH: FRANCESCA FERRANDO
In the first series of workshops Francesca Ferrando discussed with us, 'The Art of Posthuman Existence', consisting of "The Composite Landscape of the Posthuman", "From the Anthropocene to Human Enhancement", and "Posthuman Healing".
In the upcoming workshop, she is looking into Posthumanism and Worldbuilding. Francesca will also open up a dialogue around topics such as:
- ethical food
- climate change-aware ways of living
- self-sustainability
- post-consumerism
The event is FREE.
Webinar LINK
Facebook page: LINK
Link to Francesca Ferrando's previous workshops:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/.../francesca-ferrando-the...
Link to the symposium blog page, which includes more information:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/.../symposium-and-workshop...
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OCTOBER 10TH: DAVID RODEN
David Roden: Goodman and the World Behind the Schemes.
The event is FREE.
Facebook Page: LINK
Previous workshops:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/post/speculative-and-unbounded-posthumanism-david-roden
About the Author:
David Roden's published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound and posthumanism. He contributed the essay "The Disconnection Thesis" to the Springer Frontiers volume The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge 2014) considers the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical implications of the existence of posthumans: powerful nonhuman agents produced by human-instigated technological processes. Other representative publications include: “Radical Quotation and Real Repetition” in Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2004); "Nature's Dark Domain: an argument for a naturalized phenomenology" in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Phenomenology and Naturalism (2013); “Sonic Arts and the Nature of Sonic Events”, Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2010).
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CONVERSATION: RELIGION, SCIENCE AND STORYTELLING - OCTOBER 13
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UCCS Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life presents:
Religion, Science, and Storytelling,
A virtual conversation with
- Dr. Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies University of California at Santa Cruz
- Dr. Karen deVries, UCCS
- Dr. Jeffrey Scholes,
Dr. Haraway grew up in an Irish Catholic and Methodist family in Denver where she often accompanied her father, sportswriter Frank Haraway, in the press box at Bears baseball games. She studied zoology, philosophy, and English at Colorado College and earned her PhD in biology at Yale.
After teaching at the University of Hawaii and at Johns Hopkins University, she joined the History of Consciousness program at UC/Santa Cruz. Author of both "A Cyborg Manifesto" and The Companion Species Manifesto, her interdisciplinary work draws from biology, philosophy, science and technology studies, religious studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and anthropology.
Register for this free online Zoom event HERE
For more information, contact Karen deVries at kdevries@uccs.edu
FB: Estudios Posthumanos
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CONVERSATION: BOTANICAL SPECULATIONS - OCTOBER 21
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Botanical Speculations
21st of October 10:30am CST
'Hidden'
Olga F. Koroleva in Conversation with Giovanni Aloi
Zoom LINK
'Hidden' is a research and moving image project on the relationship between hidden disability and the companion-working plant. It marks a new trajectory in my practice that explores vegetal narratives concurrent in humans and plants, tracing colonial patterns of medicinal plant travel in the longer term.
Olga Koroleva is a London-based artist – curator – researcher – forager – lecturer. Her work
honours slow practice and self-care while exploring ways of non-exploitative cohabitation with multiple others on this planet. She works primarily with expanded research cinema,
and is the founder of the international peer group The Political Animal. She has previously taught animal theory at The School of Art, London Metropolitan University. She is currently a Film Practice Fellow at the Centre for Film and Ethics, Queen Mary University of London.
Please explore the following documents and material kindly shared by Koroleva: Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, ‘Chapter three - Touching Visions’ in Matters of Care (University of Minnesota Press) https://bit.ly/3uChs1l
Olga Koroleva, Hidden
www.olgakoroleva.com/hidden.html
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SEMINAR SERIES: TRANSMEDIA ARTS - (from) OCTOBER 28
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The schedule for Transmedia Arts Seminar at Mahindra Humanities Center and Harvard metaLAB for 2021-22 academic year is now posted.
Check out the list of events:
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/transmedia-arts
This series onsiders the intersection of contemporary art/theatre and new media technologies, taking up immersive, multisite, and networked modes of transmedia storytelling, performances instrumentalizing a range of live and digital platforms and formats, including social media, augmented and virtual reality, haptic and digital technology, visual and audio mapping, human/AI interaction, algorithms, and bodily and sensory enhancements.
On Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:00pm, the first seminar will be dedicated to: Decentralized Storytelling – Where AI, the Blockchain, Code, and Metaverse Intersect
Speakers: Lance Weiler, Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab
We find ourselves in a unique moment where traditional systems are being decentralized. From banking to retail to education to entertainment – consumers, students, and fans are taking control. The blockchain is ushering in new opportunities for storytelling, collecting, and the monetization of digital assets. This, combined with advancements in AI, gaming engines, and mixed-reality-based technologies is giving rise to the metaverse – a collective shared space that has the potential to bridge the virtual and the physical in unexpected and powerful ways. The rapid democratization of technology has led to a new wave of immersive storytelling that spills off screens into the real world and back again. These works defy traditional constraints as they shift away from a one-to-many to a many-to-many paradigm, transforming those formerly known as the audience from passive viewers into storytellers in their own right – enabling them to craft and collect the stories and experiences that surround their lives. New opportunities and limitations offered by emergent technologies are augmenting the grammar of storytelling, as creators wrestle with an ever-shifting digital landscape, one where story and code collide.
For further info click HERE
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COURSE: WE WILL DANCE WITH MOUNTAINS – SEP-DEC 2021
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To think with the immensely helpful formulations of Peruvian scholar, Marisol de la Cadena, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains: Into the Cracks!’ is a course in postactivism, “but not only.”
This is an animist festival, a subterranean convergence of disarticulated bodies desirous of a new politics, and a cartography project set upon exploring vast terrains of failure as a gesture of refusal in a time when resistance not only feels inadequate to the task of decoloniality but programmatically linked to the continuity of the status quo.
Inspired by Bayo Akomolafe’s construction of ‘blackness’ as a magical counterhegemonic quest for cracks in the Anthropos, instigated by the African Anthropocene, situated at Afro-diasporic sites of loss and queer power, and conceived as a deepening commitment to a politics beyond state recognition, this course-festival is an effort to spark an end-of-time emancipatory, decolonial, trans-local vocation of making sanctuary that is heavily indebted to the story and emergence of Candomblé spiritualities in Bahia, Brazil.
The course will include lectures/talks by Bayo Akomolafe, teachings by revered guest teachers, open discussions with panelists, exercises, one-on-one encounters, regional meetups and local gatherings of practice, musical and theatrical performances, weaving rituals, and the ongoing prolificity of a research inquiry at the end of time.
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For three months, on nine Sundays, from 12 September to 19 December 2021 we'll join each other for live video sessions. (Those without video or internet access can join by phone.) All sessions are recorded and temporarily available for participants.
The sessions are 3 hours.
Live Sessions are held on the following Sundays at 8:30 PM India Standard Time (IST):
12 September | 26 September | 10 October | 24 October | 7 November | 21 November | 5 December | 12 December | 19 December
7am PST/8am PDT (San Francisco) | 10am EST/11am EDT (New York) | 3 GMT/4pm BST (London) | 8:30 pm IST (India) | 1am AEST /2am AEDT Monday (Australia) |
Please be aware that the time of the course will change mid-way through for countries with daylight savings. The anchor time for the course is 8:30pm India Standard Time.
For further info click HERE
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NEW WEBINAR RECORDINGS - POST PHILOSOPHIES AND THE DOING OF INQUIRY
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The final webinar recording is posted on YouTube for viewing. Talking with Maggie MacLure on post-philosophies and the doing of inquiry was a lovely way to end the webinar series.
This free webinar series was a year-long virtual space on Zoom that meets monthly on the topic of post qualitative inquiry and the doing of inquiry inspired by a range of post philosophies. Each session involved one or two international guests who have experience with inquiry approaches inspired by post philosophies such as posthumanism, poststructuralism, affect theories, feminist ‘new’ materialism, and postcolonialism.
Panelist discussed the following:
- How does your philosophical approach influence your ways of doing inquiry?
- What does this philosophical approach make thinkable or possible for inquiry? (so how does your approach relate to more traditional practices such as literature reviews, data collection, analysis, and so forth)
- What are your perspectives on methodology(ies) and/or methods? How do you envision that in your approaches to doing inquiry?
- What mechanisms could be put in place at universities to help supervisors and/or committees support students doing post philosophy inspired ways of inquiring?
Check out the recordings at the following LINK
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NEW ISSUE - IMMORTALIST MAGAZINE
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Immortalist Magaine has published a new issue, titled "The Dawn of Superspirituality?"
(From the Editorial Letter by Dinorah Delfin)
Albert Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” In other words, to transform our lives and societies for the better, we must first transform ourselves.
One way of transforming is by transcending the limitations of logical fallacies, circular thinking, and semantics. By disrupting, correcting, rebuilding, refurbishing, and up-cycling one’s mental faculties.
Do we learn to validate, or to challenge our thinking?
Should tyranny and misinformation be censored? Or should we learn from radically uncensored, flexible, and balanced thinking?
The misrepresentation of words and censored dissidents is what leads to real danger.
How can we reach a consensus within such entrenched polarizations?
In this special issue of Immortalists Magazine, we introduce ten mind- and consciousness-expanding articles on the topics of super-longevity, radical mindfulness, transhumanism, cosmism, and politics. Together, they shed light on how to improve our health, critical thinking, and sound discernment.
We open Immortalists Magazine’s Issue No. 10 with Longevitist and Olympic Weightlifting Coach, Sarah Ikerd and her article “Activating The Ageless Algorithm.” In her piece, she shares a set of easy instructions to activate the process of healthy living. The science of Super-Longevity isn't just about living longer, but it is inherently about Super-Wellness — both physically and mentally. Radical life extension is ultimately about reducing suffering by focusing on an individual's desire to live long, healthy, and fulfilled lives; and by improving humanity's ability to survive and thrive.
Check out the issue at the following LINK
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NEW PODCAST - A WORLS WITHOUT HUMANS w/ PATRICIA MACCORMACK
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Philosopher Patricia MacCormack shares her insights into how the ‘ahuman’ might provide a solution to the growing ecological crisis, why self-extinction should be considered a compassionate act, and why antinatalism, abolitionist veganism, and occultism might be our best strategies for combatting human exceptionalism.
Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. She has published extensively on feminism, the philosophies of Deleuze, Guattari, Lyotard, Serres and Bataille, posthuman theory, teratology, animal rights, European horror films, chaos magick, Lovecraft and other trajectories of alterity. She is the author of Cinesexuality (2008), Posthuman Ethics (2012), The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocenethe (2020), co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (2008), The Animal Catalyst: Toward Ahuman Theory (2014).
Listen to the podcast by clicking on the LINK
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WAITING FOR...NEW ISSUE: POST/H/UM 6. FEMINISM(E)
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Post/h/um. Jurnal de studii (post)umaniste este un proiect de cercetare complet non-comercial, o revistă independentă, open access, cu articole de teorie critică, filosofie și studii culturale.
The new issue will be published in April, 2022.
However, translation in Romanian are already available, which include essays by Susan Ferguson, Marta Segarra and Francesca Ferrando are available at the following LINK
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TURKISH TRANSLATION - COURSE "THE POSTHUMAN"
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This is the Link to the translation. |
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CFP: POSTHUMANISM AND MANAGEMENT (Deadline NOV 30)
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Theme of the issue: POSTHUMANISM AND MANAGEMENT. NON-HUMAN, MORE-THAN-HUMAN, AND POSTHUMAN ORGANISING
Climate and ecological crisis, inequalities, the pandemics, migrations, different faces of digitisation, and so on, and so forth. In this day and age, the world forces us to pose new questions about the ways in which it is organised, organises itself, and is managed within its many domains. Above all, such questions concern relations – and entanglements – among various human and non-human, animate and inanimate, virtual, biological, geological, and other actors. Management scholars have become accustomed to the fact that human cognition allows only for partial insight, which makes the human perspective a privileged one. This perspective dominates not only exploitation-oriented trends, favouring anything that makes it easier for (human) organisations to achieve their goals, but also the progressive trends, like Humanistic Management or Critical Management Studies, which focus on the good, or on the emancipation – of human beings. There are too few questions about how the world created by myriads of other-than-human beings organises itself without actual humans, and how more-than-human actants arrange and enact the reality, stand up for their rights, and manifest their agency, strength, and dignity, undermining the foundations of Enlightenment humanism, anthropocentrism, and other approaches that take the generalised and omnipotent anthropos as both a starting and an ending point.
The call is open to radical theses, avant-garde research, unpredictable case studies, fresh methods, and all things motivated by the desire to open management and research to the so-called new humanities, posthumanities, and ecological humanities. Authors are more than welcome to refer to such reflections as critical posthumanism, new materialism, anthropology of things, relations and object-oriented ontologies, actor–network theory (ANT), etc.
The deadline for articles written in Polish or English, consistent with the publishing guidelines of "Zarządzanie w Kulturze", is November 30, 2021. Address for correspondence: czasopismo.zwk@uj.edu.pl.
For further info click HERE
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PHD POSITION: POSTHUMANISM AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
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University of Tasmania in Hobart is looking for a Phd Student (a salaried position of 3,5 years) to conduct research on the project "Posthumanism at the edge of the world", supervised by wonderful Dr Toby Juliff.
The application deadline is October, 29, 2021.
The project description:
How might we image and imagine the posthuman on an island that sits on the 42nd southern parallel? Posthumanism at the edge of the world is a visual arts research area that seeks to expand knowledge of the posthuman through critical engagements with interdisciplinary creative speculations, experimental practice-led enquiries, and new discursivities of the more-than-human/human-to-come. This project explores practice-led and practice-based capacities to map and imagine new geographies, developing new possibilities that build on existing relations (e.g. with Antarctica and its Treaty System parties) and contributing to new constellations. Placing posthumanism within these new geographies, ecologies, and politics will demand the asking of essential questions relating to possibilities of place, of peoples, and practices.
We recognise lutruwita / Tasmania as a site of deep ecology and future possibilities and encourage any visual arts application that contributes to the advancement of new knowledge relevant to this region.
Topics may touch on one or more of the following potential avenues of research:
-New archipelagos of the 42nd southern parallel
-Redefining the ‘South’
-The more-than-human: interspeciesism and place
-Inter and intradisciplinary conditions of place in the imagined future
-The jurisprudence of the human-to-come: interdisciplinary art, law, and the posthuman
-Speculative aesthetics in extinction studies
-Hydrofeminism and solidarities of water
-Decolonising the machine: AI, data, and social justice
-Transfeminist approaches to bioethics
- Queering ecologies as sites of critical activism
Interdisciplinary approaches to death studies
For further info click HERE
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If you are interested in joining the community, and / or volunteering, and/ or forming regional posthuman networks in your area, please email us at: NYposthuman[at]gmail.com
Thanks for connecting and sharing your insights and visions!
Peace, Health and Much Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman Network
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