...Rosi Braidotti What are the parameters that define posthuman knowing subjects and their ethical accountability? This essay outlines a framework by which to understand the emerging field of the critical posthumanities. It proposes as the field's conceptual foundation a neo-Spinozist monistic...

... of what has inscribed itself as humanity. Neither posthuman nor neohumanist, we define the project of critical climate change as the task of opening new critical climates and horizons capable of reading the reactive resurgence of “anthropos” in the twenty-first century's witnessing of extinction...

..., Obesity, Lateral Agency) .” Critical Inquiry 33 , no. 4 : 754 – 80 . doi.org/10.1086/521568 . Braidotti Rosi . 2019 . “ A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities .” Theory, Culture, and Society 36 , no. 6 : 31 – 61 . doi.org/10.1177/0263276418771486 . Brune...

... it, rather than at a critical endpoint. It might have a place in the moment when the human literally was, to remember 25 Sartre, ‘‘like a machine From the human to the posthuman and toward the dissolution of the human/animal binary, recent investigations in either direction give...

..., and the cultural politics of sentiment; embodiment and com- modity culture; neoliberal governance, political subjectivity, and critical practice in the contemporary United States. She is the author, most recently, of Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy (2017) and is currently beginning a new...

... that seeks to make sense of the system within which it lives. The same systems theory and cybernetics applauded by posthumanism today wanted not to maximize social transformation by way of critical subjects but to make human decision-makers in complex industrial systems more manageable according...

... have undermined the critical force of mapping environments and building the world up, and that critical theory abides at present in environmental activism rather than in ecocriticism. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 critique ecocide university Marx building References...

...), and The Posthuman (2013). She also coedited Conflicting Humanities (2016) with Paul Gilroy. Since 2009, she has been an elected board member of the Con- sortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI). David Buckland is the artist founder and director of Cape Farewell. His publi- cations include the essays...

... Conference , Monterey, CA , February . www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html . Braidotti Rosi . 2013 . The Posthuman . London : Cambridge . Braun Bruce . 2008 . “Environmental Issues: Inventive Life.” Progress in Human Geography 35 , no. 5...

... . www.airprotein.com . Alaimo Stacy . 2016 . Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Broderick Damien . 2012 . “ Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction .” Journal of Consciousness Studies 19 , no. 1–2...

... this point of awakening? They recover their critical intellect and the will to self-interrogate, “intellectual possessions in pawn” to “the oppressor’s culture” (49) lost. This reclamation is dependent on intimacy with the mass, “the people” whose collective intel- lectual and physical abilities...

...: it is rooted in an “imagined future that gives rise to missing what will be someday past, yet still present” (Batcho 2020 : 2). It opens a political space where the future is critically examined against what has been done by previous generations and what may never become, if certain choices or decisions...

... to maintain a radically critical regard to the generally accepted postulates of ‘‘visuality In devel- oping the notion of ‘‘medium-specificity Clement Greenberg asks us to grasp art as ‘‘opaque In response,Thierry de Duve suggests that Greenberg means that such identity is grasped in love and confrontation...

... in the postindustrial age. 23 I owe to Alberto Moreiras the concept of what he has termed ‘‘the nonsubject of the politi- cal ‘‘the nonpartisan and ‘‘the posthuman See his articles ‘‘Children of the Light The Bible and Critical Theory 1.1 (2004), available online at httppublications.epress.monash .edu...

... “elite educated opinion” in a way that some can no longer tolerate? In “Crude Wars,” Timothy Brennan and Keya Ganguly write, “It has become fashionable for cultural critics to reject supposedly outmoded theories of political economy, to disdain the simple exposure of hidden agendas, to scoff at the likes...

... hindsight. Eve Kosofsky Sedg- wick launches her Epistemology of the Closet, a work that for me changed everything, with a set of axi- oms: a series of assumptive critical prescriptions for an emergent field...

... is the history 9 of aesthetics. Imagine, if you will, the visit of a Wordsworth critic to the Disney- managed Spruce Goose installation in Long Beach, California, as it stood...

... of narratives in the formation of social structures and individual 1 identity. Blade Runner has attracted considerable critical interest in this regard as a film that imag- ines...

... of the populations it affects, it can also serve as the basis for subjective aesthetic experience. Though there is a critical dimension to my presentation here, I nevertheless conclude with a brief discussion of the ways in which the logic of population can itself serve as a wedge against some of the more...

... the impasse of apocalyptic thinking, historicizing ecological crisis as a social problem that comprehends, even as it exceeds, the human species. As I argue below, Marxist critical theory offers invaluable resources for such a project because of the dialectic it introduces between history and nature...