{"title":"Rosi Braidotti","description":"\u003cp\u003eRosi Braidotti's work explores the evolving landscape of posthuman thought, challenging traditional boundaries between humans, technology, and the environment. Her books delve into critical posthumanities, offering profound insights into contemporary philosophy and culture through the lens of feminist theory and posthumanist critique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find an engaging blend of theory and reflection in titles that interrogate identity, ethics, and knowledge in a rapidly changing world. These works are essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and the complex intersections shaping modern education and critical thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"posthuman-knowledge-by-rosi-braidotti-9781509535262","title":"Posthuman Knowledge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, has been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years. These changes are propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and their genetic and algorithmic codes, coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, Rosi Braidotti takes a closer look at the impact of these developments on three major areas: the constitution of our subjectivity, the general production of knowledge, and the practice of the academic humanities. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and anti-racist theory, she argues that the human was never a neutral category but one always linked to power and privilege. Hence, we must move beyond the old dualities in which Man defined himself, beyond the sexualised and racialised others that were excluded from humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePosthuman knowledge, as Braidotti understands it, is not so much an alternative form of knowledge as a critical call: a call to build a multi-layered and multi-directional project that displaces anthropocentrism while pursuing the analysis of the discriminatory and violent aspects of human activity and interaction wherever they occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSituated between the exhilaration of scientific and technological advances on one hand and the threat of climate change devastation on the other, the posthuman convergence encourages us to think hard and creatively about what we are in the process of becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000708546796,"sku":"9781509535262","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12374873482725.jpg?v=1763299420"},{"product_id":"post-human-by-rosi-braidotti-9781580937405","title":"Post Human","description":"Originally exhibited in 1992, Jeffrey Deitch s groundbreaking exhibition Post Human brought together the work of 36 young artists interested in new frontiers of body and identity transformation. 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The show included several of the key figures who participated in the original exhibition in dialogue with some of the most interesting contemporary artists today who explore how these themes have evolved over the course of the twenty-first century, particularly forms of technology (i.e. AI) that weren t in existence in the 1990s.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis publication will revisit the original 1992 works and the new works from the 2024 iteration, celebrating Deitch s everlasting influence on the art world and its understanding of posthumanism   how the human body continues to merge with and diverge from technology.","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074209661164,"sku":"9781580937405","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/86d225ea59a26e95d729f6895b4436cc.jpg?v=1765177205"},{"product_id":"the-posthuman-by-rosi-braidotti-9780745641577","title":"The Posthuman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Posthuman\u003c\/i\u003e offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics, and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. \u003ci\u003eThe Posthuman\u003c\/i\u003e starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBraidotti then analyses the escalating effects of post-anthropocentric thought, which encompass not only other species but also the sustainability of our planet as a whole. Because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, they result in hybridisation, erasing categorical distinctions between the human and other species, seeds, plants, animals, and bacteria. These dislocations induced by globalised cultures and economies enable a critique of anthropocentrism, but how reliable are they as indicators of a sustainable future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Posthuman\u003c\/i\u003e concludes by considering the implications of these shifts for the institutional practice of the humanities. Braidotti outlines new forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism that emerge from the spectrum of post-colonial and race studies, as well as gender analysis and environmentalism. 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The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration and exhaustion. Rosi Braidotti argues that we must think about these apparent contradictions all together in order to make differences that actually matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePosthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities\u003c\/em\u003e oscillates between evocations and transections of contemporary conditions, for which Braidotti offers what she calls the \"posthuman convergence\" as a new paradigm for situating and navigating their problems and possibilities. Reflecting on the knotted situation of the academic humanities, cognitive capitalism, and advanced climate change, she delivers an intersectional critique of humanism and anthropocentrism, and targets their exclusions and aporias to address subjectivity, knowledge production, and academic structures within that posthuman convergence. 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