Prof. Rosi Braidotti’s summer school “Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance”
(20-24th of August 2018), Utrecht University, the Netherlands
The 2018 summer school, titled “Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance,” which will take place between the 20th-24th of August 2018 at Utrecht University, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, combines an introduction to the basic tenets of Braidotti’s brand of critical posthuman theory with an overview on contemporary debates about the ethical implications of posthumanism and the so-called ‘posthuman turn’.
The intensive course “Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance” offers an overview of the contemporary debates about the ethical implications of posthumanism and the so-called ‘posthuman turn’ as well as Rosi Braidotti’s brand of critical feminist posthuman theory. The focus of the course this year will be on the relationship between the posthuman and the neo-materialist, vital ethics of affirmation, with special emphasis on how they deal with the complex issues around the lived experiences of pain, resistance, suffering and dying. Deleuze famously describes ethics as the aspiration to live an anti-fascist life. What does this mean for posthuman subjects situated between the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Sixth Extinction? In the brutal context of the Anthropocene and climate change, of rising populism, growing poverty and inequality, how does posthuman ethics help us to deal affirmatively with these challenges?
Application deadline: 01 July 2018.
Summer School webpage:
https://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/culture/posthuman_ethics_pain_and_endurance)
Summer School Flyer:
https://anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Braidotti-S-School-2018-FLYER.pdf
Detailed course description:
https://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/uploads/day_to_day/Course-programme-C30-2018.pdf
Book flyer:
https://anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Posthuman-Glossary-UK.pdf