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australasian posthumanities
by Australasian Posthumanities
The australasian posthumanities is a digital network of thinkers holding space across disciplines, timezones and travel bans. Community first, colonial capitalism last. For more information on seminars, reading groups and more, check out aposthumanities.org.
Episodes
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S2E9: Vivian Blaxell: Nuclear Cats
Vivian Blaxell’s brilliant essay, 'Nuclear Cats', was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2021. In this Q&A, we get deeper into the thought behind her writing, covering themes like beauty, gender, the animal / human divide, history and Australian culture. Vivian Blaxell is a…
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S2E8: Hannah McCann and Shirley Xue Chen: Gender & the Pursuit of Beauty
What are feminine masculinity and masculine femininity, and how do popular digital representations shape our notions of beauty, self-care, and work? In this episode, we speak to Dr Hannah McCann and Shirley Xue Chen about digital representations of gender and beauty in RuPaul's Drag Race and…
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S2E7: Louise Richardson-Self: Hate speech against women online
Why are women so frequently targeted with hate speech online and what can we do about it? In this talk, we chat with Dr Louise Richardson-Self about her new book, Hate Speech against Women Online, published in 2021 with Rowman and Littlefield International. Dr Louise Richardson-Self is Lecturer…
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S2E6: Gary Hall: Writing against elitism with 'A Stubborn Fury'
In this Q&A we chat with Gary Hall about his book, A Stubborn Fury. This book offers a powerful and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as insightful as they…
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S2E5: Joanna Zylinska: 'AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams'
Can computers be creative? Is algorithmic art just a form of Candy Crush? Cutting through the smoke and mirrors surrounding computation, robotics and artificial intelligence, in this Q&A Joanna Zylinska argues that, to understand the promise of AI for the creative fields, we must not confine...
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S2E3: Francesca Ferrando: Posthumanism and the Everyday
How can we implement posthuman ways of existing in everyday life? And what does it mean to be 'posthuman' in Australasia? Dr Elese Dowden discussed these questions with leading Posthuman scholar Dr Francesca Ferrando, Founder of the Global Posthuman Network and Adjunct Assistant Professor in...
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S2E2: Christine Daigle: Can Beauvoir's Existentialism Be a Posthumanism?
In this Q&A with feminist philosopher Christine Daigle, we discuss how Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy represents a first major step towards a rejection of the humanist subject. Christine argues that Beauvoir's work is influential for the development of contemporary posthumanist material…
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S1E8: Rose Trappes and Ali Teymoori: Explaining Honour Killing with Sexism and Marginalisation
In this talk, we'll hear from Rose Trappes and Ali Teymoori. Honour killing is the murder of women and sometimes men who have been perceived to have broken codes of sexual conduct in a local community. The crimes are typically justified as part of the process of restoring honour to a family or...
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S2E1: Matthew Sharpe: The Marketization of Higher Education and Crisis Tendencies: Australia & Germany Compared
In this Q&A, Matt Sharpe gives us insights from his recent public policy research into the impacts of marketization and casualization on Australian and German universities. The marketization of higher education, although presented as a neutral means to achieve 'efficiencies', inescapably produces...
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S1E7: Erin McFadyen: Translating The Animal: Anthropocentrism and Enchantment in Contemporary Australian Poetics
In this podcast, Erin McFadyen thinks about the human desire to voice animal subjectivity, and the limitations of our power to do so. In works such as Les Murray’s Translations from the Natural World and John Kinsella’s The Jaguar’s Dream, a lyric impulse to speak from the subject position of the...
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S1E6: Magdalena Zolkos: Inanimate Witnessing: Trees, Skulls and Fossils in Didi-Huberman's Philosophy of Memory
In this podcast, Magdalena talks about how material objects in cultural memory studies question the philosophic assumptions about inanimate things and ‘lower level’ organic objects in the Aristotelian hierarchy of beings. She analyzes the nexus of materiality, plasticity and memory in the work of...
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S1E5: Stephen Muecke: 7 Posthumanities Methodological Principles
What is the "posthumanities?" Taking a pragmatic approach to the posthumanities, Stephen's seminar engages with the work of Rosi Braidotti, Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour and Lesley Green in order to glean some methodological principles in this wide-ranging field. Stephen asks what the...
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S1E4: Andrew Goodman: The Secret Life of Algorithms: speculation on queered futures of neurodiverse analgorithms
Andrew shows that algorithmic modes of thought have long and problematic histories of collusion in processes of governmentality, dating at least back to the Atlantic slave trade and including the othering of neurodiverse, black and indigenous, and queer cultures. Beyond their instrumentation…
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S1E3: Tracy Sorensen: Personification, the Posthuman and the Poseidon Adventure
Tracy asks, 'Do one's abdominal organs "belong" to oneself?' In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari refer to the Body Without Organs - a mysterious and confounding concept. Interestingly, they're careful to explain they have nothing against organs; it's the assemblage that is the problem,...
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S1E2: Dinesh Devaraj: Existentialism is No Humanism (Animals: Free Will to Rights, to Justice)
As Dinesh argues, existentialism is no Humanism; that is, no forms of Humanism can be properly existentialist. Sartre’s idea of free will cannot be denied to non-human animals (henceforth simply labelled animals), because like humans, animals undertake projects and make choices throughout their...
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S1E1: Madeleine Shield: How Should we Respond to Shame?
As Maddy explores, shame is the psychological desire to be socially connected and understood, and its fulfillment is essential to our wellbeing and flourishing, while its neglect leads to psychological and moral damage. Invoking the eudaemonistic framework of (neo-Aristotelian) virtue ethics, she...
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The australasian posthumanities is a digital network of thinkers holding space across disciplines, timezones and travel bans. Community first, colonial capitalism last. For more information on seminars, reading groups and more, check out aposthumanities.org.
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