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Thanks for Being Who You Are!
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Dearest Posthumans,
How are you? We hope this Newsletter finds You Well.
We are glad to share some news and updates regarding our posthumanist community worldwide, which include some very special events where many us will be gathering in person and online, such as the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome and the Posthuman Summer Camp in Galliera, Italy (of which we are happy to share that our provisional Program). If you are interested in taking part to this experience, please consider submitting your application to the Call for Auditors.
We hope this newsletter brings you joy and inspiration, supporting your personal, professional, and existential research within the context of posthumanism and beyond!
Thanks for being (p)Art of this community; thanks for Your Presence and Visions!
Peace and Much Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman Network
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GPN Community:
POSTHUMAN SUMMER CAMP (10-13 August, Naturama): Call for Auditors
POSTHUMANIST PANELS @ World Congress of Philosophy (Rome, Italy 1-8 August)
EVENTS and CFPs:
ONLINE COLLOQUIUM (Forthcoming): Econarratives in Theory and Praxis. (Re)Imagining Symbiosis between Humanity and Nature (September 2024)
New Publications:
NEW BOOK: "Organization Studies and Posthumanism. Towards a More-than-Human World" by François-Xavier de Vaujany, Silvia Gherardi, Polyana Silva
NEW BOOK (Forthcoming): Posthumanism and India. A Critical Cartography (edited by Debashish Banerji, Md. Monirul Islam, Samrat Sengupta)
NEW BOOK: Poli-P Poszthumán Perspektívák, edited by Bartha ádám, Horváth Márk
NEW ISSUE: Research in Art and Education. Vol. 2024 No. 2 (2024): Thematic Issue on Posthuman Arts Education
NEW ARTICLE: "Entering Into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life" by Juliana España Keller
Extra:
NEW REVIEW (Francesca Ferrando's "The Art of Being Posthuman": "Reimagining Democracy for the Posthuman Era" by Bimal Pratap Shah
Get involved:
JOINING AND VOLUNTEERING
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NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Newsletter, July 2024, was kindly complied by our Editor Stefano Rozzoni and new GPN Intern Eunice Huang. Here, you can find more info about our extraordinary Team!
REMINDER: A WAY FOR PROMOTING YOUR EVENTS / CFPs / NEWS
Our Newsletter currently counts with more than 1500 international members. Please check out this page of the GPN website to discover how to promote your event(s). 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.
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POSTHUMAN SUMMER CAMP (10-13 August, Naturama): Call for Auditors
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A few days left to participate in the Posthuman Summer Camp as an Auditor! We are pleased to announce that, based on the availability of some spots, you can now submit your application to become an "auditor" at the upcoming Posthuman Summer Camp. The camp will be held from August 10th to 13th, 2024, in Galliera, Italy.
Who are auditors?
By "auditors," we refer to people who participate in the proposed workshop activities during one or more days of the Summer Camp; they will also will join communal lunches and dinners. Auditors will be responsible for proposing or leading activities.
Budget
The Posthuman Summer Camp is fully run by volunteers and is a non-profit event. Auditors are required to contribute a daily fee to cover expenses:
€80 full day
€40 half day
+ €5 for subscription
What is the Posthuman Summer Camp? It is a collaborative and creative gathering of people from various backgrounds, including academic and independent scholars, artists, scientists, performers, activists, and seekers. The camp focuses on researching posthumanism and aims to translate post-dualistic and post-anthropocentric theories into practical applications through experimental approaches. This event is not a traditional academic summer school; instead, it emphasizes interactive, practical, and outdoor workshops to explore innovative forms of learning, knowledge production, and sharing. Co-living experiences, such as communal meals and cleaning, are integral to the posthumanist exploration at our camp.
To fill in the "Call for Auditors Form," please click HERE.
Deadline
The final deadline to fill the form is: July 15th.
Program
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Labyrinth at Okains Bay | Kāwatea, Banks Peninsula | Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū, New Zealand | Aotearoa. Photograph taken by Joanna Pascoe, 25 May 2024.
Labyrinth designed by Stefano Rozzoni and Joanna Pascoe, drawn up by Anthony Pascoe, built by Grant Wylie, Helen Brown, Elizabeth Sugrue and Joanna Pascoe.
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POSTHUMANIST PANELS @ World Congress of Philosophy (Rome, Italy 1-8 August)
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We are getting ready to the World Congress of Philosophy, which will be held in Rome from August 1-8 featuring different talks and paper presentations on posthumanism.
We are pleased and honored to announce that 12 panel proposals from our network have been accepted. If you are interested in attending, please consider the following summary based on the conference's day-by-day calendar (last accessed 8 June 2024).
1. Posthuman Studies (2nd August 2023 - 13:00 15:00)
2. Environmental and Posthuman Philosophies. Critical Perspectives and Methodologies (2nd August 2024 - 15:00 19:00)
3. Posthumanism and Philosophy of Technology: The Spectrum of the Incision (3rd August 2024, 09:00 - 11:00)
4. Posthuman Books: Book Panel in the Philosophies of the Posthuman + Celebration (3rd August 2024, 15:00 - 19:00)
5. Gender and Posthuman Philosophies (3rd August 2024, 17:00 - 19:00)
6. Posthumanism, Religion and Spirituality (5th August 2024, 15:00-17:00)
7. Posthumanism, Art and Philosophy (5th August 2024, 17:00-19:00)
8. Posthuman Education: From Theory to Praxes (6th August 2024, 09:00 11:00)
9. The Vital Continuum: Posthuman Explorations of Plant /Animal/ Human/ Machinic Connections and Vibrations (6th August 2024, 13:00-15:00)
10. Existential Posthumanism in Glocal Philosophies: A Multilogue (8th August 2024, 9:00-11:00)
Whether you are presenting a paper or simply attending, we invite you to follow these panels and join us for social gatherings at this special conference!
Please, click HERE to access the official Conference Website.
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ONLINE COLLOQUIUM: Econarratives in Theory and Praxis. (Re)Imagining Symbiosis between Humanity and Nature (September 2024)
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NEW BOOK: "Organization Studies and Posthumanism. Towards a More-than-Human World" by François-Xavier de Vaujany, Silvia Gherardi, Polyana Silva
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This book aims at exploring the reception of critical posthumanist conversations in the context of Management and Organization Studies. It constitutes an invitation to de-center the human subject and thus an invitation to the ongoing deconstruction of humanism. The project is not to deny humans but to position them in relation to other nonhumans, more-than-humans, the non-living world, and all the “missing masses” from organizational inquiry. What is under critique is humanism’s anthropocentrism, essentialism, exceptionalism, and speciesism in the context of the Anthropocene and the contemporary crisis the world experiences. From climate change to the loss of sense at work, to the new geopolitical crisis, to the unknown effects of the diffusion of AI, all these powerful forces have implications for organizations and organizing. A re-imagination of concepts, theories, and methods is needed in organization studies to cope with the challenge of a more-than-human world.
For further info, click HERE |
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NEW BOOK (Forthcoming): Posthumanism and India. A Critical Cartography (edited by Debashish Banerji, Md. Monirul Islam, Samrat Sengupta)
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For further info, click HERE
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NEW BOOK: Poli-P Poszthumán Perspektívák, edited by Bartha ádám, Horváth Márk
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A poszthumanizmus csápjai mindenhova elérnek. Az elmúlt években Magyarországon is egyre nagyobb teret nyertek a poszthumanizmushoz kapcsolódó irányok a humántudományokban és a művészetekben, megvilágítva, hogy ez a heterogén diskurzusrendszer az élet legkülönbözőbb területein alkalmazható. Az egyre erősebben fenyegető klíma- és ökológiai válság, a mesterséges intelligencia rohamos fejlődése, az ismert társadalmi rend globális válsága, a földi életet uraló diskurzusok radikális megroppanása egyaránt kikényszeríti, hogy új kérdéseket tegyünk fel.
A PoliP kutatócsoport arra vállalkozik, hogy teret biztosítson fiatal magyar kutatóknak, akik nyitottak a poszthumanizmusból adódó gondolatokra. Bemutatkozó kötetünk vállalja a heterogenitást és a nyitottságot minden olyan megközelítés irányába, amely túlmutat az emberközpontúság keretein. Egy olyan korban, amelyben a talajvesztés érzése egyre rémisztőbb, reményeink szerint az Olvasó is talál magának olyan csápot, amelybe kapaszkodhat. A kötetben olvashatóak esszék, tanulmányok a következő szerzőktől: Nemes Z. Márió, Lovász Ádám, Nyiri Szabolcs, Győrffy László, Hidi Boglárka, Báder Petra, Bordás Máté, Borsos Bettina, Vidosa Eszter, Bartha Ádám.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW ISSUE: Research in Art and Education. Vol. 2024 No. 2 (2024): Thematic Issue on Posthuman Arts Education
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Posthumanist theories have had a major impact on our own research, as well as on our artistic and pedagogical prac-tices. When inviting contributions on the topic Posthuman Arts Education, we were curious to see how others, working with these theories, have put them to work in varying (art) pedagogical contexts and their research. What kind of prac-tices, questions, speculations, imaginaries, provocations, affects, potentials, and tensions are set in motion?
We decided to call this thematic issue Posthuman Arts Education knowing that posthumanist art education is an unestablished field open for speculative experimentationand various conceptualizations. The contributions of this thematic issue join an emerging art education scholarshipthat draws from major theorists of posthumanisms, suchas Barad, Bennett, Braidotti, Deleuze and Guattari, and Haraway. During the past decade art education scholars such as Garoian (2012), jagodzinski (2013), Hickey-Moody &Page (2015a), Hood and Kraehe (2017), Trafí-Prats (2017), Hellman and Lind (2017), Keifer-Boyd and colleagues (2018), Rousell and Fell (2018), de Miles and Kalin (2018),Garber (2019), Schulte (2019), and others, have paved the way for rethinking materiality, learning, art and art pedago-gies in the age of planetary emergency.
To access the issue, click HERE
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NEW ARTICLE: "Entering Into a Sonic Intra-Active Quantum Relation with Plant Life" by Juliana España Keller
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In the speculative research of plant bioacoustics, one enters into a sonic intra-active relation between humans and plants, activated by acoustic wave signals emitted by plants to create electronic patterns of sounds composed by humans and emitted by machines. Plants emit sound waves at relatively low frequencies of 50–120 Hz. Experimenting with patching and modulation by tracking these sonic lines of data can lead to unique sonic experiences tapping into the universe’s musicology. Interacting with sounds on such a deep level to create acoustic energy reveals our relational process with the universe. We are interconnected with plant life, vibrating at different internal frequencies. This article focuses on the symbiotic relation between humans and plant life as an acoustic shimmering ecology, communicating a posthuman, symbiotic understanding of vegetal matter as a morphological force that (re)shapes our sonic intra-relations to the natural world. Entanglement is messy and a becoming with the universe as a philosophical sonic meditation and worlding.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW REVIEW: "Reimagining Democracy for the Posthuman Era" by Bimal Pratap Shah
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Reimagining Democracy (Nepal) by Bimal Pratap Shah is a book review of Ferrandos' latest book The Art of Being Posthuman (Polity 2024) :"Ferrando introduces an important concept of 'posthuman democracy,' which extends democratic principles beyond the human realm to include non-human entities and artificial intelligence."
To read the full review, 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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