Event overview
CSISP Reading Group, March 9, 2016
What does it mean to be human in an age of technological transformation, environmental degradation, emerging epidemics, and ubiquitous capitalism? Who counts as a subject in contemporary sciences, politics, and other means of world-making? In a reading group on posthuman subjectivity and ethics, we wish to explore these questions through the writings of Barad, Braidotti, Derrida, Haraway, and Wolfe, among others. We hope to bring together scholars from different disciplines and departments at Goldsmiths.
At our second meeting on March 9th (3:30pm-5:30pm, WT1204), we will discuss how scholars have expanded and critiqued Derrida's attempt to bring the nonhuman animal into philosophy and critical thought, through the following texts:
1) Barad, Karen. Forthcoming. ‘On Touching - The Inhuman That Therefore I Am (v1.1)’. In The Politics of Materiality, edited by Susanne Witzgall.
2) Haraway, Donna J. 2007. ‘When Species Meet: Introductions’. In When Species Meet, 3–44. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press. [The first chapter of When Species Meet, most importantly the response to Derrida on pp.19-27.]
3) Wolfe, Cary. 2008. ‘Learning from Temple Grandin, Or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject’. New Formations, no. 64: 110–23.
For further details please contact Hanna Sjögren, visitor at the Centre for Cultural Studies (h.sjogren@gold.ac.uk) or Baki Cakici, Sociology (b.cakici@gold.ac.uk).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Mar 2016 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm |
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