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Thanks for Being Who You Are!
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Dearest Posthumans,
We hope this email finds You Well.
We wish You All a Serene and Inspiring 2024, full of Posthuman Realizations!
We are happy to share our January GPN Newsletter which includes CFPs, new publications and other opportunities in the field of Posthuman Studies. Specifically, in our Editorial we share the possibility to join us this Summer at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Italy (August 1-8 2024) and / or at the 2nd edition of the Posthuman Summer Camp (Italy, August 10-13 2024).
Thanks for Your commitment, Work, and Vision! We are always connected, as we face the challenges of the present-day world with an affirmative outlook.
Peace, Visions and Much Appreciation,
The Global Posthuman Network
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Editorial:
Getting ready for...the "XXV World Congress of Philosophy" (Rome 2024)
News from the GPN
CFPs:
CFP: “Training Embodied Critical Thinking” webinar series
CFP: “Critical Plant Theories and Cultures”
CFP: “Matter of Solidarity”
New Publications:
NEW BOOK! “Being and Not Being. End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy” by Richard Iveson
NEW BOOK! “Relating with More-than-Humans. Interbeing Rituality in a Living World” edited by J. Chamel, Y. Dansac
NEW PUBLICATION! "Vision Quest in Posthumanist Education: Focuses, Praxes and Experiences" by Francesca Ferrando and Stefano Rozzoni
NEW PUBLICATION! “Navigating Boundaries: Architecture Beyond Human”
NEW ENTRY: “Rhetoric and Posthumanism” by Mehdi Mohammadi
Extras:
AWARDS: NYSCA Support for Artists Grant 2023 + the FST StudioProject Fund Grant 2023 to...Maria F. Izaguirre!
Video and text of the TALK: "Supremacist Philosophy and False Transvaluation" by Jaym* del Val
Get involved:
JOINING AND VOLUNTEERING
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EDITORIAL
Getting ready for...the "XXV World Congress of Philosophy"
(Italy, August 1-8 2024)
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Dear Posthumans,
Many of us will be involved in the "XXV World Congress of Philosophy" (WCP) - dedicated to the topic ‘Philosophy across Boundaries’ - (August 1-8 2024, in Rome). We are delighted to share that around 10 panels dedicated to posthumanist studies have already been accepted!
As the deadline for proposal submissions or panels has been extended to February 1st, we encourage members of the GPN community to contribute with abstracts or panels to the WCP, enhancing the richness of in-person conversations.
For comprehensive event details, including dates, costs, and topics, please click HERE
To submit your proposal (abstract of panel), click HERE |
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2nd Edition of the Posthuman Summer Camp
(Italy, August 10-13 2024)
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We are also excited to announce that the Italian Posthuman Network and the Center for the Study of Posthumanist Philosophy will host the second edition of the Posthuman Summer Camp at Naturama in Galliera, Italy, from August 10-13, 2024. Conference participants attending in person are encouraged to consider joining this summer school experience. Galliera is conveniently located near Bologna, approximately 2-3 hours away from Rome by train.
Further information about the event will be shared through the January GPN Newsletter. In the meantime, if You would like to read more about the first edition of the Posthuman Summer Camp, the article " Vision Quest in Posthumanist Education: Focuses, Praxes and Experiences" (Ferrando / Rozzoni 2024) has just been released (see entry below - section "Publications"); the article explains the scopes and praxes related to the first edition of the Posthuman Summer Camp (2023), among other topics related to posthumanist education.
For further enquiries, please write to rete.po...@gmail.com
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NEWS FROM THE GLOBAL POSTHUMAN NETWORK
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Newsletter, January 2024, was kindly complied by our Editor Stefano Rozzoni. Here, you can find more info about our extraordinary Team!
We are also delighted to announce that our Co-Director Mafe Izaguirre has been awarded the NYSCA Support for Artists Grant 2023 and the FST StudioProject Fund Grant 2023! More info in the section "Extras".
REMINDER: A WAY FOR PROMOTING YOUR EVENTS / CFPs / NEWS
We have created an online form that you can use for promoting your events through the Newsletter of the Global Posthuman Network, which currently counts with more than 1500 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.
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CFP: “Training Embodied Critical Thinking” webinar series
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CFP: “Critical Plant Theories and Cultures”
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Open Cultural Studies invites submissions for a topical issue “Critical Plant Theories and Cultures: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements”, edited by Dr. Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece).
In this special issue, we will discuss critically the necessity to rethink plant life, its presence, role, and impact on various aspects of our human and non-human world by initiating an interdisciplinary dialogue, whereby different terrains of Humanities would learn from each other to think about, imagine and describe vegetal life with critical awareness.
Submissions will be collected by April 30, 2024 via the on-line submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/culture/
For further info, click HERE
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CFP: “Matter of Solidarity”
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We invite journal articles, essays, panel discussions, interviews, and experimental formats to conceptualise and reflect on the practices of resistance, resilience, care, common survival (as well as everyday unheroic and “ordinary” ways of surviving), and solidarity in feminist/women-led/anti-patriarchal, anti-racist and antiauthoritarian struggles. We especially welcome non-western perspectives and voices to challenge the often implicitly white and western parameters of what is considered a feminist struggle or what it should look like. We encourage contributors that approach matters of solidarity in an intersectional and critical manner.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW BOOK! “Being and Not Being. End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy” by Richard Iveson
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Against the grain of many contemporary theoretical positions that indulge in delusions of safety and certainty, Being and Not Being argues that contingency is definitive of the structure of being itself. As a result, any predictions about the future founded upon present or habitual states of being are necessarily subject to possible error given the unpredictability that is the condition of all emergent forms of being. Rather than signal the absence of an ethical dimension, this prior inscription of potential, which gives rise to profoundly unforeseen forms of being, necessarily invokes an a priori ethical demand that is common to biological and technological systems alike.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW BOOK! “Relating with More-than-Humans. Interbeing Rituality in a Living World” edited by J. Chamel, Y. Dansac
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This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings’ legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales.
For further info click HERE |
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NEW PUBLICATION! "Vision Quest in Posthumanist Education: Focuses, Praxes and Experiences" by Francesca Ferrando and Stefano Rozzoni
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This article has just been released in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS), Special Journal on Post/trans Humanism and Education
Edited by Rose, D.E. Published by Taylor & Francis.
In the context of Posthuman Studies, attention towards education is gaining increasing significance to address the anthropocentric axioms embedded in contemporary worldviews. What is posthumanist education? This paper addresses this question affirming the importance of embodying posthumanist theory in practice. Attention will be dedicated to three original keywords: selves-care; flex(st)ability; commUnity. They will be investigated as possible posthumanist focuses to respond to current educational needs. This paper is not purely theoretical; it is anchored in material experiences that are being explored by posthuman communities worldwide. We will reflect, more specifically, on the Posthuman Summer Camp, a collaborative event organized by the Italian Posthuman Network (Italy, August 10–13 2023). In this essay, the realities and possibilities that emerged during the first edition of the Camp are embraced as embodied and embedded, experiential and experimental – clearly, existential – praxes, enlightening our vision quest on posthumanist education.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW PUBLICATION! “Navigating Boundaries: Architecture Beyond Human”
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EAR38: Navigating boundaries: Architectures beyond human No. 1 compiles contributions which revolve around a transformative exploration of the relationship between the built environment and the plant life of our surroundings. It also gathers research centred on the transformative aspects of artistic practices within the built environment, redefining the relationship between art, space and perception. Each paper delves into innovative perspectives that challenge traditional human-centred notions and boundaries, seeking to redefine how we perceive and engage with the world around us.
For further info, click HERE
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NEW ENTRY: “Rhetoric and Posthumanism” by Mehdi Mohammadi
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The Genealogy of the Posthuman project continues with ever-new entries. We suggest going through one of the latest publications, titled “Rhetoric and Posthumanism” by M. Mohammadi.
“They argue for the inclusion of nonhuman actors in understanding complex systems, stating that “posthumanism’s focus upon the complex interactions of human and nonhuman actors can help researchers avoid either overvaluing the human (humanism) or the nonhuman (antihumanism)”. The approach unsettles traditional anthropocentric perspectives by acknowledging that “attempts to understand human beings as autonomous, isolated, or determinative do not fully account for the complexities of living, writing, and working in a variety of biological and mechanical systems”
For further info, click HERE
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Video and text of the TALK: "Supremacist Philosophy and False Transvaluation" by Jaym* del Val
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Filosofía Supremacista y Falsa Transvaloración: Nihilismo Trash-humano y Holocausto Planetario.
Hacia una R/evolucion Metahumana.
Ó: Así hablé yo, Zarathustra, hace 140 años, y así os hablo hoy.
conferencia de Jaym* del Val en las Jornadas ¿Más allá del Humanismo?
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Filosofía.
14 de diciembre de 2023
To access the source, click HERE |
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AWARDS: NYSCA Support for Artists Grant 2023 + the FST StudioProject Fund Grant 2023 to...Maria F. Izaguirre!
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We are happy to announce that Maria F. Izaguirre has been awarded the NYSCA Support for Artists Grant 2023 and the FST StudioProject Fund Grant 2023!
"The NYSCA Support for Artists Grant 2023, offered by the New York State Council on the Arts and sponsored by Theaterlab, is a wonderful recognition of my work and commitment to the arts. The award will fund an off-Broadway production series in 2024 showcasing experimental explorations on cybernetic art. It's an honor to be among the recipients contributing to the vibrant arts and culture scene in the state. I am particularly thankful to Orietta Crispino, Director of Theaterlab, and her team for their confidence and the opportunity to craft new experiences to push the audience into unexplored territories. Below, I've included a link to the press release in English and Spanish.
In addition, I am delighted to announce that I received the FST StudioProject Grant, a prestigious award established by Frederieke Sanders Taylor to support and champion studio practice and emerging artists in New York City. This acknowledgment is not only a testament to my artistic journey but also a tribute to the vision and legacy of Frederieke Sanders Taylor. The award will support and catalyze my upcoming artistic endeavors, providing a platform for realizing new projects in 2024. Below, I've included a link to the press release in English and Spanish."
For further info click HERE and 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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