CONTEXTUALISATION - LECTURE 1

Lecture 1 + Seminar - 05.02.25 + 06.02.25

- becoming is also a political question, a form of worlding
- deleuze= philosophy grounded in connections and relations
- deleuze= post-structuralism (desire to explore the emergence, becoming of structures (how systems come into being and how they mutate)
- matter is not passive but active (relations evolving in between bodies and matter, and in between matter that is not necessailry human)
- for deleuze= form is also matter, form is the whole ‘thing’
- Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its central ethical claim: by actively forming kinship or alliances among human and nonhumans, we can overcome major challenges of today’s world and create a better future. (Eriksen MH, Kay K. Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2022;32(2):331-343. doi:10.1017/S0959774321000561)
- Katrin Yusuf (a billion black anthropocene or none!)
-natureultures offers a becoming thinking, a concept that indicates that we would demolish the binary beteen nature + culture (and between subject and object).
- nature and nurture- check the references