"POSTHUMAN art of existence"
WORKSHOP
Lecturer "The Art of Posthuman Existence".
Next Event:
US, Artist Collective "Foreign Object", June 9-16-23 2021, Study Group "Foreign Object".
Outline:
Meeting 1 (2 hours):
The composite landscape of the posthuman (Contemporary Philosophy)
Reading:
Ferrando, F. (2014) "Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, Metahumanism, and New Materialisms: Differences and Relations" In: Existenz Published by The Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2014, pp. 26-32.
Link:
https://www.academia.edu/6396791/POSTHUMANISM_TRANSHUMANISM_ANTIHUMANISM_METAHUMANISM_AND_NEW_MATERIALISMS_DIFFERENCES_AND_RELATIONS
Videos:
Lessons 1, 2 and 3
https://www.posthumans.org/course-the-posthuman.html
Meeting 2 (2 hours):
From the Anthropocene to Human Enhancement (Eco-Technology)
Reading:
Ferrando, F. (2019) Philosophical Posthumanism (Bloomsbury 2019), part 3: pp. 103-139 (total: 36 pages)
Videos:
Lessons 4, 5 and 6
https://www.posthumans.org/course-the-posthuman.html
Meeting 3 (2 hours):
Ontological Radical Healing (Posthuman Ethics)
Reading:
Ferrando, F. (2020) "Posthuman Feminist Ethics: Unveiling Ontological Radical Healing"
In: Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism. Edited by Thomsen, M. R., Wamberg, J., Bloomsbury 2020.
Link:
https://www.academia.edu/44536312/Posthuman_Feminist_Ethics_Unveiling_Ontological_Radical_Healing
Video:
Ferrando, F. (2021) "Existential Posthumanism"
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gybm4TL96Co&t=2686s
Methodology
Each participant will be asked not only to read the material, but to present their projects in relation to the material debated. By the third and last workshop, I would like each participant to develop their own project and present it briefly (1 to 2 minute each, depending on the number of participants).
Assignments (optional)
There will be light optional assignments to level the field. Participants do not have to comply with the assignments, but it will help them join the conversation more easily.
Goal
Clarity in relation to posthuman theory, and vision in relation to artistic creation, agency in relation to existential praxis.