Posthumanism in Practice

"Posthumanism disrupts many of the assumptions that underly traditional humanist thinking. This thinking has profoundly shaped how we see ourselves, our place in the world and impacts how we treat said world. It was generally accepted that we, as humans, are easily defined as special, standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota. These kinds of assumptions, both consciously and unconsciously, underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research in the social sciences and humanities, and particularly as informed by traditions emerging from European and Enlightenment philosophies. Posthumanism in Practice applies this disruptive posthumanist thinking to intersectional practices in the arts, sciences and humanities. It provides examples and insights to help us think through issues of methodology when applying posthumanist thinking to how to think, create and live. In this book, artists, researchers, educators, and curators set out how their own work has changed in response to engaging with posthumanism, or how the things that they have discovered can be better understood within this different paradigm. By capturing these ideas, Posthumanism in Practice shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action, and produce new artefacts, effects, and methods that are more relevant and useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st Century."-- Provided by publisher Introduction: Theory into Praxis, Matt Hayler (University of Birmingham, UK), Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) 1. Engineering the Posthuman: Conceiving Handedness and Constructing Disabled Prostheses, Stuart Murray (Leeds University, UK) 2. Posthumanising Biomedicine: The Role of Microbioia in Parkinson Disease Research, Aaron Bradshaw (UCL, UK) 3. Posthumanism and the Limits of Multispecies Relationality, Bryan Lim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 4. Alien Embodiment and Nomadic Subjectivity: A Speculative Report, Steve Klee and Kirsten McKenzie (University of Lincoln, UK) 5. Sympoietic Art Practice with Plants: A Case for Posthuman Co-Expression, Lin Charlston (visual artist) 6. Kneading Bodies, Madaleine Trigg (Massey University, New Zealand) 7. Circus as Practices of Hope, Marie-Andrée Robitaille (Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden) 8. Posthumanism in Play: Entangled Subjects, Agentic Cutscenes, Vibrant Matter, and Species Hybridity, Poppy Wilde (Birmingham City University, UK) 9. Posthumanist Interfaces: Developing New Conceptual Frameworks for Museum Practices in the Context of a Major Museum Technology Collection, Deborah Lawler-Dormer (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Australia) and Christopher John Müller (Macquarie University, Australia) 10. Affirming Future(s): Towards a Posthumanist Conservation in Practice, Hélia Marçal (UCL, UK) and Rebecca Gordon 11. Water, Ice, and Dead 'Tadpoles': Discovering within Undecided Boundaries in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability Research, Debra Harwood (Brock University, Canada) 12. Reflections On a Language Teacher Education Praxis from a Posthumanist Viewpoint, Laryssa Paulino de Queiroz Sousa and Rosane Rocha Pessoa (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil) 13. Unlearning to Be Human? The Pedagogical Implications of 21st-Century Postanthropocentrism, Stefan Herbrechter (Heidelberg University, Germany) 14. Posthumanism and Postdisciplinarity: Breaking Our Old Teaching and Research Habits, Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) "This volume is the first English resource to shed light on the philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt (1862-1929), the main pupil of Ernst Mach and founder of the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Philosophie , later the association of Berlin logical positivists. A central figure in the early debate on the theory of relativity, his work was praised by Einstein himself.Tracing the development of Petzoldt's ideas, starting from his early acceptance of materialism and Kantian agnosticism, Chiara Russo Krauss presents a comprehensive reconstruction of his philosophy in the context of the German milieu. She examines his attempt to develop a new philosophy following Gustav Fechner and the empiriocriticism of Richard Avenarius and Ernst Mach. In the final chapter, she sets out how Petzoldt proposed relativistic positivism as the official interpretation of Einstein's relativity. By illuminating key elements of Petzoldt's work, this is a valuable case study for students and scholars of philosophy of science and late 19th-century and early 20th-century philosophy. It reveals the complex interplay of two different tendencies of the time: neo-Kantianism and its struggle to overcome the notion of thing-in-itself, as well as the need for an epistemological foundation for the new advances of science"-- Provided by publisher "Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across the social sciences and humanities. This is the case particularly in those traditions emerging from European and Enlightenment philosophies. Posthumanism disrupts these traditional humanist outlooks and interrogates their profound shaping of how we see ourselves, our place in the world, and our role in its protection.In Posthumanism in Practice, artists, researchers, educators, and curators set out how they have developed and responded to posthumanist ideas across their work in the arts, sciences, and humanities, and provide examples and insights to support the exploration of posthumanism in how we can think, create, and live. In capturing these ideas, Posthumanism in Practice shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action, and produce new artefacts, effects, and methods that are more relevant and more useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher Problematic assumptions which see humans as special and easily defined as standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota, both consciously and unconsciously underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research across the social sciences and humanities. This is the case particularly in those traditions emerging from European and Enlightenment philosophies. Posthumanism disrupts these traditional humanist outlooks and interrogates their profound shaping of how we see ourselves, our place in the world, and our role in its protection. In Posthumanism in Practice , artists, researchers, educators, and curators set out how they have developed and responded to posthumanist ideas across their work in the arts, sciences, and humanities, and provide examples and insights to support the exploration of posthumanism in how we can think, create, and live. In capturing these ideas, Posthumanism in Practice shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action, and produce new artefacts, effects, and methods that are more relevant and more useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st century.