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Posthumanist redistributions of the sensible

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2021 | 3 Comments »

Theory has a mobile army of metaphors that account for its own importance. The vanguardist notion of a “cutting edge” has long served as a paradigmatic metaphor for theoretical innovation, and it’s one I take issue with in my article “Is the Post- in Posthuman the Post- in Postmodern? Or What Can the Human Be?,” […]

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What are the humanities? (Two cultures, redux)

Posted in Academe, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

As a humanistic scholar within an interdisciplinary school, I’m often put in a position to distinguish how the humanities differ from the social and natural sciences. There is a long tradition of distinguishing between these “two cultures,” with the most frequent point of focus, for humanists, being that they concern themselves with human meaning and […]

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We are all tuteishi (or, on not being posthuman)

Posted in Cultural politics, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 17, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

A social media conversation prompted me to dig up something I had written in my notebook years ago after reading Serhii Plokhy’s masterful book on “premodern identities” in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Which in turn prompted me to realize that coronavirus provides an answer to the question I had just finished writing an article about […]

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