[seminario] Nomadismes: cossos semiòtic-materials

Este seminario (organizado por Laura Benítez en el marco del Institut d'Humanitats en el CCCB de Barcelona) plantea una introducción a los debates contemporáneos en torno al excepcionalismo humano, la tecnopolítica y la situación de crisis medioambiental. Partiendo del pensamiento de Rosi Braidotti, abordaremos el radical cambio de paradigma que supone dejar de concebir el ser humano como centro y medida de todas las cosas. 

A partir de los enunciados del antihumanismo, el transhumanismo y el posthumanismo, cuestionaremos qué éticas y políticas afirmativas pueden plantear hoy alternativas sostenibles y horizontes sociales de esperanza y resistencia.

Qué cambios comportan estas perspectivas para la producción de conocimiento? Cuáles son las consecuencias de la implementación tecnológica de las capacidades humanas? Qué transformaciones afirmativas proponen algunos de los nuevos movimientos feministas? Cómo podemos actuar en este contexto de crisis ecológica? El objetivo es poner en diálogo el pensamiento de Rosi Braidotti con prácticas artísticas y de investigación que inspiran modelos de subjetividad alternativos a los del proyecto moderno humanista y posibilitan la articulación de una ética transformadora.

El día 14 de noviembre a las 18.30h me ocuparé de la última sesión haciendo un recorrido por el inventario de Possible Bodies para señalar algunas potencias de la puesta en crisis de la unidad universalista de "lo" humano, para afirmar la responsabilidad de hacernos cargo del continuum semiótico y material de eso que acaso podríamos probar a llamar "la humaneza", también desde la perspectiva de las computaciones de sus devenires volumétricos.

+ info: http://www.cccb.org/es/actividades/ficha/el-pensamiento-afirmativo-de-rosi-braidotti/229551

human/inhuman/posthuman

what have you forgotten to forget?

/potestas

check certain retribalization of.for the people

/to come

as (if) in radical immanence lays

/potentia

(as) if to process affects on the go

/makes sense

& monistic ontologies for post-cold-war
thinkers.mediators

/to do

& the ethics of affirmation also
of.for conceptual personaes

/to dissent

spin the rendering of the not yet

the rendering of the no longer

/as well

[but the rest is not not-art neither]

Utrecht, 24-28.08.015

looking forward to thinking together

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Dear Prof. Rosi Braidotti,

Over the past years, we (me within a number of collectives) have been wondering about the details of our present material conditions. Trespassed by several performativity issues, place/displacement of enunciation problematics, non-identitary pre-occupations and a strong political reconfiguration, our generation is exposed to exceptional conditions for thinking about notions such as agency, knowledge production, dispersion, memory archiving and basic life conditions, to name just a few.

In an organic though rigorous manner, we have been confronting such issues from diffractive inquiries like “How is our sexual-affective performativity conditioned by crystallized representations of what loving beings should act like?”, “What does it mean to name the world from a Southern European radical neoliberal pro-nationstate context?”, “Can we get rid of Modern Project's configurations of thinking while experiencing sudden sociopolitical urgencies?”, “What implications does it have to implement our tools in the process of taking care of our community sustainability?”, “What transductions might we need in order to bring the behaviour of the digital networked communities to a physical experience of conviviality?”, “What does it mean to think of infrastructures as key ethic & aesthetic agents?”.

In Objetologías, we wonder together about the tactics of de-centering the subject while researching the designing processes of our material surroundings. In Euraca, we wonder about the language making and managing of non-fixed subjectivities in the last days of the Euro. In Sexo Hispter, we wonder about the reasons of the immanent de-politization of our erotics. In Relearn we gather around the implications of free libre open source tools and results in learning situations. In MasterDIWO we try to invent emancipated ways of sharing knowledge. In 404 we test the extent to which cultural mediation can serve as a post-humanist yet institutionalized task ...etc.

All of that makes me excited to participate in the Human/Inhuman/Posthuman summer course in Utrecht, as the above situated but common problematics (or opportunities?) could perhaps find shared frames and maybe useful discourses/references to keep my/our research rolling.

Looking forward to thinking together,

Jara Rocha

Barcelona, April 30th, 2015.