Professor Rosi Braidotti’s lecture: “Posthuman Critical Theory”

2 Feb 2015 - 16:00 / 2 Feb 2015 - 18:00

Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West
Toronto

This lecture will address the so-called ‘post-human’ turn in contemporary cultural theory in the light of three main considerations: firstly the shifting perception and understanding of ‘the human’ at the intersection of advanced technologies, philosophies of the subject and the Life sciences and secondly, the effects of globalization as a system that functions by instilling process of ‘timeless time’ and perverse, multiple de-territorializations that aim at capitalizing on the informational codes of all that lives. Thirdly, the impact of wars and conflicts in contemporary governmentality and the new forms of violence and discrimination they engender on a planetary scale. Last but not least, the lecture examines the implications of this historical context for transformative, affirmative politics in general and cultural practice in particular.

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities. She is the author of many books including Nomadic Subjects. Embodiment and Sexual difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (1994) and The Posthuman (2013). As one of the leading feminist philosophers at work today, she is herself the subject of books, including Nomadic Theory. The Portable Rosi Braidotti (2011) and The Subject of Rosi Braidotti (2014).