Rosi Braidotti's "The Posthuman"

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Link to Patreon (for those whom can afford it): / theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I turn my focus of posthumanism and Braidotti's seminal text, "The Posthuman." Braidotti's brand of posthumanism is a Deleuzian one, seeing the potential of becoming and deterritorialization to oppose the oppressive logic of commodification and identity in late capitalism.

[@Meleha]

I greatly appreciate this video! I'm an undergraduate English literature major looking at using posthumanism as my theoretical lens as I move forward with my academic career. I'm almost done reading this book, and your analysis and explanation of it is very helpful. Looking forward to exploring more of your Channel!

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Thanks Michelle. Happy you are getting something out of it :)

[@DemetriosNavras]

thank you for this, was quite informing. As for your problems with the book, i recently was in one of her lectures and she insinsted on repeating a harawayan-like mantra "Stay with the contradictions". Namely post human times are the times of both 6th massive extinction and 4th industrial revolution and suggested we should never forget or undermine one for the sake of the other.

[@suhridspoemmusic9509]

I'm also doing masters in these stuff and therefore I'm here 😊

[@joeroganconnoisseur7364]

Honestly speaking, the beginning of the book was quite refreshing but as we went forward since chapter two, I reckoned I was completely lost in the matrix of philosophical jargon and couldn't understand what she wanted to conclude as one part contradicted another and so on. She just deliberately made it complex like most current posthumanist thinkers.

[@EstieF]

hi! any chance i could read your thesis? im interested what your critiques of posthumanism are :-)

[@leasuter9291]

Writing my Master's about Braidotti's book - if you're into fiction I would definitely recommend Atwood's "Maddaddam" - Trilogy! Great perspective on posthuman subjectivity/identity.

[@addammadd]

Great trilogy.

[@lyzarodriguez3790]

How about for theatrical performance, how will Post-humanism be applied?

[@jakobson219]

Thanks for this. I don't have the book and I tried to listen to some of her lectures but her speech affectations drive me kind of crazy. Much prefer yours! 🙂
PS you tend to mispronounce "tenets" as "tenants"

[@sarahkelly2350]

read, or read a review of candide, braidotti may have been playing with voltaire's somewhat sarcastic coin ' the best of all possible world's'

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Yes indeed I think she was but I can't help but feel that the message rings hollow when we consider the actual circumstances.

[@jonathannash8162]

i think the real p-humanist is Frantz Fanon

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Neil badminton would agree methinks! How's BC?