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Dearest
Posthumans,
We hope that
our May
Newsletter finds You
well.
We are pleased to
share some interesting
events and
announcements
regarding inspiring
posthuman projects
worldwide: they
represent useful
opportunities to
enrich our research
and existential path
on Posthumanism.
Thanks for being part
of this community and
for the inspiring work
that you put in it!
Please, keep on
planning, creating,
and
imagining affirmative
initiatives and
supporting
the collaborative and
pluralistic spirit of
our Network. Your
contribution is
fundamental,
especially in light of
the many challenges
that we, as a
species, face
everyday!
Peace, Health and Much
Appreciation,
The Global
Posthuman Network
www.posthumans.org
News
NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL
POSTHUMAN NETWORK Events
1. ZOOM PANEL MEETING:
"MORE THAN HUMAN" -
Posthumanism,
Human-Technological
Relations, and
Bioethics. Presented
by Posthumanism:
Cinema Philosophy
Media Series (May 4)
2. WORKSHOP:
"Recrafting omnes et
singulatim: Collective
and individual
subjectivities in
algorithmic
governmentality" (May
4)
3. CONFERENCE: Second
International
Environmental
Humanities Conference:
Critical Animal and
Plant Studies (May
16-18 May)
4. SUMMIT: 2022
Clitoris Summit
(May 22)
5. FESTIVAL:
Resilienze Festival -
Fuori dal Binario (May
26-29)
6. WORKSHOP: 12th
Organizations
Artifacts &
Practices (OAP)
workshop: Posthumanist
organizing and
posthumanist
management: History or
becoming? (22-24 June
2022)
New
Publications
7. NEW BOOK! "ECO
SOMA" by PETRA KUPPERS
8. NEW BOOK! "THE
BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK OF
POSTHUMANISM" by MADS
ROSENDAHL THOMSEN AND
JACOB WAMBERG
(Paperback version)
9. NEW BOOK! "L'AMORE
PER GLI ANIMALI" by
ROBERTO MARCHESINI
10. NEW ISSUE! of
ANTENNAE ISSUE 57.
“BEYOND POSTHUMANISM”
CFPs
11. CFP: SETTIMANA
POSTUMANA by the
Italian Posthuman
Network (by May 10)
12. CFP: 2nd
International
Conference on
Inter/Dis-connections
of the Prefix ‘Post’
in Contemporary
Literary, Linguistic
and Cultural Studies
(by May 15)
13. CFP: Third
international
conference Why Still
Education? Humanism,
Posthumanism,
Anti-Humanism:
Educational
Perspectives (by June
15)
14: CPF: Deleuze,
Special Issue of
"Deleuze and Guattari
Studies", Edinburgh
University Press:
Planetary and
Decoloniality (by June
12)
Get involved
15. JOINING AND
VOLUNTEERING
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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 1200
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 monthly, 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.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Newsletter, May
2022, was kindly
complied by our Editor
Stefano Rozzoni, with
the help of Assistant
Editor Palladio Lavigne.
Here, you can find more
info about our
extraordinary Team!
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| ZOOM PANEL MEETING: "MORE
THAN HUMAN" -
Posthumanism,
Human-Technological
Relations, and
Bioethics.
Presented by
Posthumanism:
Cinema
Philosophy Media
Series (May 4) |
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A Zoom panel
meeting on
biohacking,
biomedical
advancements,
bioengineering, and
transhumanist hopes,
aspirations and
fixations. How do
technological
advancements extend
what it means to be
human?
For more information
contact: Russell
Kilbourn
rkil...@wlu.ca or
Julia Empey
empe...@mylaurier.ca
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WORKSHOP:
"Recrafting
omnes et
singulatim:
Collective and
individual
subjectivities
in algorithmic
governmentality" (May 4)
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Workshop
organised by Daniele
Lorenzini (Warwick
University), Martina
Tazzioli (Goldsmiths),
Ana Valdivia (King's
College)
Speakers: Antoinette
Rouvroy, Claudia
Aradau, Bernard
Harcourt, Seda Gurses,
Colin Koopman, Lorena
Jaume-Palasi
Programme:
1:30-2:00pm:
Introductory remarks
(Ana Valdivia, Daniele
Lorenzini, Martina
Tazzioli)
2:00-4:00pm: Panel 1 -
"Algorithmic
governmentality and
de-subjectification"
(chairs: Daniele
Lorenzini & Martina
Tazzioli)
Antoinette Rouvroy
Homo numericus: The
recombinant subject of
algorithmic
governmentality
Claudia Aradau
Wrong-telling,
truth-doing: The
production of
algorithmic knowledge
Bernard Harcourt
Being and becoming
4:00-4:30pm: Break
4:30-6:30pm: Panel 2 -
"Digital inequality and
racialised
subjectivities" (chair:
Ana)
Colin Koopman
Data equals: Historical
and philosophical
perspectives on
inequality in data
Seda Gürses
Beyond debiasing:
Addressing the
inequalities of AI
Lorena Jaume-Palasí
Normative solutionism:
Frictions and
commonalities between
law and code
6:30-7:00pm: Concluding
remarks
For further info, click
HERE
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CONFERENCE:
Second
International
Environmental
Humanities
Conference:
Critical
Animal and
Plant Studies
(May 16-18
May)
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further info, click HERE
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SUMMIT:
2022 Clitoris
Summit
(May 22)
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Scientists,
doctors, artists,
authors, philosophers,
poets, and activists
will be shining a
light on the clitoris
— they are joining us
in elevating this
beauty of an organ to
her rightful place in
the world, as the seat
of human dignity and
pleasure.
This event is
presented within the
framework of Conscious
Transhumanism, a
movement for
consciousness, dignity
and science. The
erasure of the
clitoris from
contemporary culture
is unscientific and
detrimental for all of
us: let's change this.
The 2021 Summit was a
success. 1000+ guests
joined us LIVE! from
all over the globe.
Let’s make 2022 a
beautiful event, share
with everyone!
For further info,
click HERE |
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FESTIVAL:
Resilienze
Festival -
Fuori dal
Binario (May
26-29)
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Resilienze
Festival è un progetto
ideato e prodotto da
Kilowatt presso Le
Serre dei Giardini
Margherita a Bologna,
che parla delle grandi
trasformazioni
planetarie mostrando
le interazioni e i
legami tra ambiente,
società, economia e
cultura, interrogando
i linguaggi dell’arte
per esplorare punti di
vista alternativi, far
comprendere la
complessità, superare
ogni forma di
riduzionismo.
Il concept della sesta
edizione, che si terrà
dal 26 al 29 maggio
2022, è Fuori dal
Binario, un
invito a uscire dalle
strade già segnate, a
superare le dicotomie
che semplificano la
lettura del mondo
senza offrire
occasioni per capirlo
veramente.
Per tutte le info,
cliccare QUI. |
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WORKSHOP: 12th
Organizations
Artifacts
&
Practices
(OAP)
workshop: Posthumanist
organizing and
posthumanist
management:
History or
becoming?
(22-24 June
2022)
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further info, click HERE
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| NEW BOOK! "ECO SOMA" by
PETRA KUPPERS |
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In
Eco Soma, Petra
Kuppers asks
readers to be
alert to their own
embodied responses
to art practice
and to pay
attention to
themselves as
active
participants in a
shared
sociocultural
world. Reading
contemporary
performance
encounters and
artful
engagements, this
book models a
disability culture
sensitivity to
living in a shared
world, oriented
toward more
socially just
futures.
Eco soma methods
mix and merge
realities on the
edges of lived
experience and
site-specific
performance.
Kuppers invites us
to become moths,
sprout gills,
listen to our
heart’s drum, and
take starships
into crip time.
And fantasy is
central to these
engagements:
feeling/sensing
monsters,
catastrophes,
golden lines,
heartbeats,
injured sharks,
dotted
salamanders,
kissing mammoths,
and more. Kuppers
illuminates
ecopoetic
disability culture
perspectives,
contending that
disabled people
and their
co-conspirators
make art to live
in a changing
world, in contact
with feminist,
queer, trans,
racialized, and
Indigenous art
projects. By
offering new ways
to think, frame,
and feel
“environments,”
Kuppers focuses on
art-based methods
of envisioning
change and argues
that disability
can offer
imaginative ways
toward living well
and with agency in
change, unrest,
and challenge.
Petra Kuppers's
'Eco Soma' is the
second volume in
the 'Art after
Nature' series
co-edit by
Giovanni Aloi and
Caroline Picard
for the University
of Minnesota
Press.
For further info,
click HERE
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| NEW BOOK! "THE BLOOMSBURY
HANDBOOK OF
POSTHUMANISM"
by MADS
ROSENDAHL
THOMSEN AND
JACOB WAMBERG
(Paperback
version) |
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The
Bloomsbury Handbook of
Posthumanism, edited
by Mads Rosendahl
Thomsen and Jacob
Wamberg, consists of
32 articles organized
in four sections:
Paradigms, Ethics,
Technology, and
Aesthetics. It’s now
available in
paperback.
The Bloomsbury
Handbook of
Posthumanism appears
in paperback in April
2022. It was first
published in 2020
during the Covid-19
pandemic that is still
a part of our lives.
It gave rise to a
feeling of human
humility as the world
changed rapidly in
months. Yet, the
pandemic also showed
how technology made
cooperation and
combating disease
possible to the degree
that would have been
unheard of a decade
ago. Looking back, the
dual focus of the
handbook, which many
readers have
appreciated, on both
the decentering of the
understanding of
humanity’s place in
the world and the
empowerment of
humanity through
technology, seems as
relevant as ever.
For further info,
click HERE |
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| NEW BOOK! "L'AMORE PER GLI
ANIMALI" by
ROBERTO
MARCHESINI |
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Fin
dalle prime
manifestazioni
artistiche del
Paleolitico, gli
animali sono stati
per l’uomo una
fonte inesauribile
di ispirazione.
Dopo millenni
trascorsi in loro
compagnia il
divario che ci
separa si è però
oggi fatto molto
netto ed è
amplificato dalla
deriva tecnologica
e dalla crisi
ambientale in
atto. Il ristretto
gruppo di pet,
composto per lo
più di cani e
gatti, che abita
con noi e che
spesso umanizziamo
in modo grottesco,
non è più in grado
di offrire quello
specchio
istruttivo e
stimolante che
fino a pochi anni
fa costituiva un
tassello formativo
indispensabile per
lo sviluppo di
Homo sapiens.
Roberto Marchesini
esplora la
relazione tra
esseri umani e
altri animali da
diverse
prospettive.
All’analisi di
tipo scientifico,
indispensabile per
comprendere i
meccanismi alla
base di fenomeni
quali la
domesticazione del
cane e lo sviluppo
della zootecnia,
affianca una
disamina delle
teorie filosofiche
e antropologiche
che hanno generato
la spaccatura,
ormai così
evidente, fra il
nostro mondo e il
loro. Inoltre,
grazie a più di
uno sconfinamento
nei campi
dell’arte e della
rappresentazione
dell’eterospecifico,
L’amore per gli
animali riassume
molti dei processi
che nel corso
della storia (e
della preistoria)
ci hanno resi
l’animale che
siamo.
For further
info, click HERE
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ISSUE 57.
“BEYOND
POSTHUMANISM” |
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Posthumanist
discourses, and
subsequently
conceptions of the
Anthropocene, have
been substantially
shaped by implicitly
unacknowledged
structural omissions.
A foundation level
endemic confusion of
the specific with the
universal critically
compromises any
anticipated radical
paradigm shifts to, as
philosopher Sylvia
Wynter (2015) would
have it, “give
humanness a different
future”. Again,
according to Wynter,
it is important that
we urgently shift the
hollow universalizing
terms that obscure the
subjective positions
of the “we” at the
center of popular
Anthropocene
discourse. This
reference point “is
not the referent-we of
the human species
itself", a fungible
planetary human
figure, but rather a
culturally discreet
Human (or Human®™)
with specific
anthropogenic
activities and
relations, both
structurally and
conceptually.
Which new conceptions
of the Anthropocene
may arise when
geographical time
collapses with
historical time? What
new thoughts on the
Anthropocene can be
revealed when we
acknowledge that
neither the
responsibility nor the
vulnerability of
climate change, are
evenly/universally
distributed? How do we
disrupt the narratives
of the Anthropocene(s)
that erase the roles
and realities of the
non-Human®™?
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| CFP: SETTIMANA POSTUMANA by
the Italian
Posthuman
Network - Rete
Postumana
Italiana (by May
10) |
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The Italian
Posthuman Network has
organized an open call
for its first
launching event: the
"Posthuman Week", to
be held in Italy in
October / November
2022. Events can be
academic and
non-academic,
embracing the arts,
sciences,
philosophies,
ecologies and
technologies: how to
live as posthumans?
All are welcome!
Deadline: May 10th
2022
For further info,
click HERE |
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| CFP: 2nd International
Conference on
Inter/Dis-connections
of the Prefix
‘Post’ in
Contemporary
Literary,
Linguistic and
Cultural Studies
(19-20 Oct 2022)
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Keynote
Speakers
Dr. Cathy
Caruth: Professor of
English and
Comparative
Literature, Major
contemporary theorist
in the field of
Literature and Trauma
Dr. Stef
Craps:Professor of
English Literature at
Ghent University,
Director of the
Cultural Memory
Studies Initiative,
Founder of the
Mnemonics Network
Dr. Francesca
Ferrando: Assistant
Professor, Liberal
Arts Program, New York
University, USA.
Founder of the Global
Posthuman Network
The prefix ‘post’ has
dominated most of the
academic inquiries in
contemporary culture,
theory, and
philosophy. Roland
Barthes, Jacques
Derrida, Michel
Foucault, Gilles
Deleuze, Judith
Butler, Jean
Baudrillard and Julia
Kristeva initiated and
expanded upon the
implications of this
prefix for
comprehending the
multidimensional
complexity of the
ever-expanding world
and discourses around
us. The expression
‘post’ has now become
the staple of the
academic litany in
connection with WW I
& II, Modernism,
Colonialism, 9/11,
Feminism, Dualism,
Humanism, Trauma,
COVID, and so on
The increasing
prevalence of the
prefix ‘post’ to
describe and
comprehend
contemporary reality
at this point in time
calls for renewed,
invigorating, and
innovative approaches
to seek answers to the
questions such as: why
is there an increasing
trend to use the
prefix ‘post’ with
almost all the
existing theories and
socio-political and
historical events?
What does it add or
subtract from a
philosophy? How does
it enrich or snatches
away the fundamentals
of a theory? How does
it make or unmake a
theory? How is it
relevant for
describing our
contemporary
realities? What makes
it resonate so aptly
with most of the
existing theoretical
perspectives? How and
when did it become an
inevitable phenomenon
in the current
scholarly research?
How does it provide a
rich and diverse set
of tools to write a
creative work and
critically analyse it?
What is the future of
this prefix: is it
going to be obsolete
at some point in time?
We are interested in
looking for answers to
this type of
questions.
Deadlines
Abstract Submission
Deadline: May 15th,
2022
Notification of the
accepted papers: June
30th, 2022
Final Paper submission
deadline: July 30th,
2022
For further info,
click HERE
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| CFP: Third international
conference Why
Still
Education? Humanism,
Posthumanism,
Anti-Humanism:
Educational
Perspectives
(5-7 October
2022) |
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Keynote
Speakers:
Rosi Braidotti,
Utrecht University,
Netherlands
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner,
John Cabot University
in Rome, Italy
Carol Taylor,
University of Bath, UK
Grasping the present
situation of our human
and educational
history requires
(re)thinking a number
of important
questions. Has the
world changed
dramatically or is it
our image of the world
that has changed? When
we talk about the
changed world, are we
talking about the
human condition
(conditio humana), our
image of humanity
(imago hominis), or
both? Are we already
living in the
posthuman age or in
the age of
posthumanist thinking?
What impact does the
posthuman paradigm
have on educational
theory and practice?
What impact could or
should it have?
If education has been
traditionally observed
as the synonym for
humanisation, which
embeds humanist and
neohumanist ideals as
its foundation and key
inspiration, does it
mean that education
will be transformed
alongside the
envisaged
transformation of
humanity?
Important Dates
Application deadline:
June 1, 2022
Notification of
acceptance: June 15,
2022
Conference dates:
05-07 October 2022
For further info,
click HERE
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| CPF: DELEUZE, Special Issue
of DELEUZE AND
GUATTARI
STUDIES,
EDINBURGH
UNIVERSITY
PRESS:
PLANETARITY AND
DECOLONIALITY |
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The new
‘critical tool box’
that the decolonial
thinkers invent by
cloyingly adhering to
ethics of epistemic
disobedience, based on
creating an eternal
mode of perpetual
withdrawal from the
expanse of western
epistemology, works by
resuscitating
West/Non-west binary
and generating other
forms of forced
reductionism that
stands vulnerable to
right wing fascist
manipulation. While
the militant
decolonial
grammatology triggers
off endless cycles of
blame game, the need
of the times,
according to many, is
to collectively unite
with the Western
hemisphere to work out
an assemblage of
alternative modernity,
a modernity grounded
on sustained
eco-living rather than
extraction and
exploitation of
colonial modernity.
Deleuze’s philosophy
with its
schizoanalytical
lenses aims to
disempower Western
epistemology’s
supposed hierarchical
position so that its
applicatory scope
pluralizes beyond
other alternatives
modes of thought.
Moreover, Decolonial
thinking can always
engage with ‘minor
becomings’ of
Deleuze’s thinking to
work out novel
ethicalities of
resistance.
If interested please
send an abstract of
300 words by 12 June
2022 to the following
mail ids:
saswatd...@gmail.com/
aroypr...@gmail.com
For the full cfp and
any queries related to
the proposal please
send your mail to
dipras...@gmail.com
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
www.posthumans.org |
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