Rosi Braidotti, “Posthuman Knowledge”

This lecture is built on the assumption that we are currently situated in a posthuman convergence between the Fourth industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction, between and advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and non-human entities. This convergence calls for a posthuman critical intervention in the form of intersecting critiques of western humanism on the one hand and of anthropocentrism on the other. The lecture discusses the impact of this convergence upon three major areas: the constitution of our subjectivity; the general production of knowledge and the practice of the academic Humanities. It addresses directly the following questions: what are the implications of the fact that knowledge production is no longer the prerogative of academic or formal scientific institutions like the university ? What are we to make of the sudden growth of new trans-discipinary hubs that call themselves: the Environmental and Digital Humanities, the Medical, Neural and Bio-Humanities, and also the Public, Civic and Global Humanities and so on ?
The lecture offers both a genealogy of these Critical Posthumanities and a theoretical framework by which to assess them.
More information about Braidotti's forthcoming book, Posthuman Knowledge can be found on the publisher's website.
See the GSD's homepage for recently published a profile on Rosi.
Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Honorary Degrees Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), 2009; Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2014; Knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005) is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University (2007-2016), founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht University (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. Since 2009 she has been an elected board member of CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes). Her publications include: Patterns of Dissonance, 1991; Metamorphoses, 2002; Transpositions, 2006; La philosophie, lá où on ne l’attend pas, 2009; Nomadic Subjects, 1994 and 2011a; Nomadic Theory, 2011b; The Posthuman, 2013. She recently co-edited Conflicting Humanities (2016) with Paul Gilroy and The Posthuman Glossary (2018) with Maria Hlavajova, which are part of the bookseries “Theory” she edits for Bloomsbury Academic.
This lecture is co-organized by the Master in Design Studies Program and Womxn in Design.

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  • @ENGLISHCOSMOSNETJRFMPhil
    @ENGLISHCOSMOSNETJRFMPhil Жыл бұрын

    I am going to present a paper on Posthumanism and this lecture made me confident about my recent readings. Energy personified.

  • @ivan9139
    @ivan91394 жыл бұрын

    impenetrable passion, eloquent, expressive, love the spirit

  • @heartyhaha

    @heartyhaha

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you penetrate passion ?

  • @noonward

    @noonward

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heartyhaha how do you?

  • @tatyanavonleys
    @tatyanavonleys4 жыл бұрын

    Great! I love her and her knowledge!

  • @foggycraw6758
    @foggycraw67584 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, brothers!

  • @FrankNFurter1000
    @FrankNFurter10005 жыл бұрын

    Rosi is always so intensive and invigorating. Thank you for the uploaded.

  • @bjornkristjansson7191
    @bjornkristjansson71912 жыл бұрын

    Well. Rosi nails the attention into a joyful focus, and what a wealth of notions, concepts. I need to see this again.

  • @noonward

    @noonward

    Жыл бұрын

    wealth of notions lmao

  • @Gimhyewon
    @Gimhyewon4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading this.

  • @MultiRozey
    @MultiRozey3 жыл бұрын

    This is one must watch.

  • @LazyArquitecto
    @LazyArquitecto5 жыл бұрын

    Nice Video! You and your videos encouraged me to create a channel, do what I love, and help people save their best gift, THEIR TIME. Thank you!

  • @caio_simoneti
    @caio_simoneti4 жыл бұрын

    I was just reading The Posthuman and was not really being able to connect with its excitement because I've been drown into "posthuman melancholia" lately, but watching her speak changes everything haha

  • @anjankatta1864

    @anjankatta1864

    3 жыл бұрын

    Any books / videos that particularly pushed you into posthuman mealncholia? Curious what you found most impacting

  • @reececameron4936

    @reececameron4936

    2 жыл бұрын

    instablaster...

  • @erwartungstk
    @erwartungstk Жыл бұрын

    so smart and thoughtful but at the same time funny and ironic, simply great.

  • @genericidios
    @genericidios3 жыл бұрын

    This is a real healer.

  • @treeoflife7151
    @treeoflife71513 жыл бұрын

    excellent lecture. thanks for the good audio and image, gsd.

  • @andriacanayo903
    @andriacanayo9032 жыл бұрын

    Nicely explained. Thank you! My professor did a podcast that I couldn't follow at all.

  • @Ariane-Feijo-Inbound-PR
    @Ariane-Feijo-Inbound-PR3 жыл бұрын

    great lecture!

  • @bardroll3268
    @bardroll32683 жыл бұрын

    Breath-taking lecture by Braidotti.

  • @indonesiamenggugat8795
    @indonesiamenggugat87953 жыл бұрын

    Entertaining Brilliance, My Rosi. Warm hug from Indonesia. Your voice sound similar with Vandana Shiva. Dreaming of you both talking in the same event..

  • @wren3164
    @wren31643 жыл бұрын

    Woah I see what true knowledge looks like.

  • @AmruthaViswanath
    @AmruthaViswanath5 жыл бұрын

    That cheeky 'Harvard' that Braidotti said after cognitive capitalism.

  • @caitlinquinn79
    @caitlinquinn793 жыл бұрын

    This is excellent- I'm trying to find a transcript because reading along, need to be at half speed as a deaf person! Anyone got a link? I'm still looking!

  • @rahul-ip6ts

    @rahul-ip6ts

    2 жыл бұрын

    Looked for a transcript as well, couldn't find one! Would love to know if one exists...

  • @smallcave8147
    @smallcave81474 жыл бұрын

    AMAZIMG

  • @MrJustSomeGuy87
    @MrJustSomeGuy872 жыл бұрын

    Starts at 3:58

  • @TheTanvirahsan
    @TheTanvirahsan8 ай бұрын

    I have started my PhD journey on Posthumanism and Posthumanity in 2022. I am trying to understand and explain 'Posthuman Subalternity', a phenomenon I feel because of the posthumanization proposed by the transhumanists and already existant because of hyper capitalism, through the lens of literary specimens. This lecture contains many key points around which I am building my thesis. My heartfelt gratitude and love towards Professor Rosi Braidotti. She is my first guiding angel into posthumanism.

  • @EnglishSahitya-taj

    @EnglishSahitya-taj

    Ай бұрын

    I am also working on posthumanism.Please share your contact details.

  • @henryfirus6856
    @henryfirus68563 жыл бұрын

    Man is the embodied breath of Life, triune unity of Body Word Spirit.

  • @mukerremtuncay
    @mukerremtuncay5 жыл бұрын

    it is like a respiration this conference...

  • @sinanguler3
    @sinanguler33 жыл бұрын

    ve evet bu konuşma final ödevim için oldukça yüksek bir önem arz etmekte teşekkürler Harvard Üniversitesii

  • @jiyanabi5078

    @jiyanabi5078

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tüm gaünü yorumlarda görmeyi umuyordum ama sadece bir kişi varmış 😂😂umarım iyi bir not alırsın

  • @sinanguler3

    @sinanguler3

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jiyanabi5078 reytingler her zaman yüksek olmayabiliyor ya Çok sağ ol, sen de iyi bir not alırsın umarım! ☠️

  • @sofiakurilchik
    @sofiakurilchik5 ай бұрын

    Oh, dear Lord, that's the woman I want to become when I finally grow up.

  • @excitingworld364
    @excitingworld3642 жыл бұрын

    ...and how is Damasio relevant here??

  • @excitingworld364
    @excitingworld3642 жыл бұрын

    What's with gin and tonic? Mentioned twice...

  • @addammadd
    @addammadd Жыл бұрын

    I have trouble telling when she’s being deadpan funny or genuine, specifically writing this as she’s talking up synthetic meat.

  • @vakk9
    @vakk92 жыл бұрын

    luv u and gin and tonic

  • @zeusjanseng.lujares7428
    @zeusjanseng.lujares74282 жыл бұрын

    She’s funny!

  • @dude1diligence
    @dude1diligence Жыл бұрын

    Professing themselves to be wise, became fools

  • @aliciaa.
    @aliciaa. Жыл бұрын

    Minuto 54 se habla de poblaciones que han sido mermadas por la violencia colonial. En Venezuela los pueblos originarios han sido devastados por la violencia decolonial y minera. Me parece que la depredación no tiene ideología, cualquiera la ejerce si puede.

  • @erwartungstk

    @erwartungstk

    Жыл бұрын

    para entender, qué sería violencia decolonial minera?

  • @tyogrady866
    @tyogrady8662 жыл бұрын

    High-school level thinking.

  • @Dani_rohr_
    @Dani_rohr_5 ай бұрын

    For the record English is not my mother tongue but I will start to work with it Fair enough as a human being and hot engine. Lol just kidding but not. Schwer da alles zu übersetzen /überleben /überschreiben / und greetings and grizzly bear hug ❤

  • @pablolasagamota6215
    @pablolasagamota6215 Жыл бұрын

    I have never understood why contemporary philosophy rejects universality on the basis that universality has never been truly universal. Why don't try to make it truly universal? Why should we renounce to humanity instead of revealing its true purpose? Just because we haven't been able to truly include everyone under the "human" doesn't mean it doesn't work. Social justices works on the basis on recognizing the other as equal and that only happens if we can defend an universal concept laying beyond each particular perspective.

  • @tommoelbommo
    @tommoelbommo2 жыл бұрын

    Vac-scene ? 😆

  • @excitingworld364
    @excitingworld3642 жыл бұрын

    Marx has much more to offer than Rosi seems to think. Especially on the point of imagining different forms of economy/markets. By the end, she did sound like a marxist, though apparently without realizing this herself. Overall, not convincing and not radical enough - e.g., that she thinks capitalism is not breaking but bending is so ironic ad so myopic. A total lack of reflection by someone extremely privileged, to my mind. What would you say now, Rosi - after the pandemics and the total collapse of so much around us? Still not seeing that capitalism is indeed breaking?

  • @genathing903

    @genathing903

    2 жыл бұрын

    The rich got richer during the pandemic. The markets have not been exhausted. Capitalism is alive and well. Perhaps she had a point?

  • @excitingworld364

    @excitingworld364

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@genathing903 on life support, ventilation machine and all - at best. Visit Latin America, India etc, where the MAJORITY of people live, behind gated communities of europe and north america... see for yourself. Not that things are fine behind the gates either...

  • @berlg.3382

    @berlg.3382

    2 жыл бұрын

    Capitalism is evolving. To say it is “breaking” is to misunderstand what is happening around you.

  • @excitingworld364

    @excitingworld364

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@berlg.3382 Good luck with this.

  • @berlg.3382

    @berlg.3382

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@excitingworld364 I’m not for it. Just stating the facts. For some terminology, it is called “stakeholder capitalism”..the evolution of industrial era “free market capitalism”.. same neoliberal foundations, just an evolution in methodology. A mere changing of wardrobe, yet still capitalizes on the useless eater.

  • @matthiasmuller7677
    @matthiasmuller7677 Жыл бұрын

    Before making grand statements with big words, why don't you rather start at the beginning and explain how the poor child in the garbage is actually a bad thing in your worldview? Or are you just borrowing moral values from other worldviews for emotional manipulation?

  • @easymoneymusic1076
    @easymoneymusic1076 Жыл бұрын

    Gobbledygook.

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert12 жыл бұрын

    the "human" is a nuetral term, if one has better things to do in life. These well endowed geezers do not make an iota of difference to 99.99% people of the world...

  • @joeroganconnoisseur7364
    @joeroganconnoisseur73642 жыл бұрын

    Her criticism towards the humanists was not justified at all. She provided no valid reasons to prove them wrong but rather excoriated them. The definition of the term posthuman itself is as vague as a utopian idealistic stance. If there's no distinction between nature and culture or man and woman and living and non-living, then to evolve into a posthuman what are the variables that come into play? To become posthuman, one has to make use of what's accessible. So how it's going to solve the problem that humanism and anthropocentrism have caused?

  • @berlg.3382

    @berlg.3382

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said. It seems posthumanism sets humanity up to be easily subsumed by the transhumanist singularity precisely by its deconstruction of boundaries, meaning, purpose, and virtue that humanism had built. Posthumanism results in human slavery to systems theory-based ai algorithmic management. It’s amazing how naive these types come off. Their idealism serves little purpose outside of self-destruction.

  • @joeroganconnoisseur7364

    @joeroganconnoisseur7364

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@berlg.3382 I agree and they don't have any idea how to achieve such utopian objectives they set. Her book, The Posthuman, is filled with preposterous ideas which contradict one another and are just a blatant push toward transhumanist projects which exploit nature, humans, and their resources more than they claim humanists have exploited.

  • @noonward

    @noonward

    Жыл бұрын

    " The definition of the term posthuman itself is as vague as a utopian idealistic stance." exactly, she noted that humanism derives it's own critiques

  • @erwartungstk

    @erwartungstk

    Жыл бұрын

    I guess that your questions are exactly what she's inviting us to think about (although you'r concerns seem to come from a total different genealogy than hers...)

  • @bartlx
    @bartlx10 ай бұрын

    So many words, so little meaning. I'm gonna ask current AI tech to give me a short summary of this and waste my time somewhere else.

  • @Dani_rohr_

    @Dani_rohr_

    5 ай бұрын

    It is currently one of the most beautiful and important speeches you could listen to as a human being

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert12 жыл бұрын

    she remains clueless how the poorest women live, in countries far far away from this institutional "hope and hoopla"

  • @stianchrister
    @stianchrister3 жыл бұрын

    She's out of her mind.

  • @berlg.3382

    @berlg.3382

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hyper neurotic with idealism and detached life experience to boot.

  • @posthumantv7586
    @posthumantv75864 жыл бұрын

    Fluff and nonsense - jargon not knowledge

  • @Enzaio

    @Enzaio

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great argumentation to prove your point, man! Awesome! I'm totally convinced!

  • @agoogleuser4569

    @agoogleuser4569

    3 жыл бұрын

    As someone that disagrees with the ideology she does make some good points.

  • @marcomolteni861

    @marcomolteni861

    Жыл бұрын

    e pensare che questa qua dovrebbe formare i giovani con le sue tesi confuse

  • @lemonlimelukey

    @lemonlimelukey

    Жыл бұрын

    cope and seethe

  • @moblackledge

    @moblackledge

    Ай бұрын

    That doesn’t make sense. She’s just observing that humanism takes the concept of “human” for granted. And she’s deconstructing humanism from that perspective. She’s a philosopher. And as such. Uses philosophical language. It’s specialized language. But all disciplines have jargon in that regard. But how precisely do you dismiss what she is saying?

  • @nickpeim
    @nickpeim Жыл бұрын

    Naive on the University, ontologically poor.