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Rosi Braidotti’s Vision of the Posthuman: Towards Posthuman Subjects and Critical Posthumanism

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2019, 12(2), pp.33-58
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2019.12.2.33
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 10, 2019
  • Accepted : October 22, 2019
  • Published : October 31, 2019

Kyung-Ran Lee 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Subjectivity is a socially mediated process and a matter of empowerment and power. Therefore, the emergence of new social subjects is a process which involves a collective project external to the self as well as its deep-seated structures. Rosi Braidotti’s vision of the posthuman, which is both post-humanistic and post-anthropocentric, makes it clear that posthuman subjects are, and should be, embedded and embodied, transversal and relational. As she insists, posthuman subjectivity is a work-in-process which constantly involves experimentation with what we are capable of becoming in the face of posthuman predicaments as well as opportunities. Rosi Braidotti’s vision of posthuman subjects and her critical posthumanism, which she developed in The Posthuman in 2013 and Posthuman Knowledge in 2019, are important platforms from which workable concepts of posthuman subjectivity worthy of the times might be formulated and developed.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.