Open AccessVibrant Matter: Posthumanism as an Ethics of Radical Alterity
Author(s) -
Ricardo Gil Soeiro
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
2i revista de estudos de identidade e intermedialidade
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2184-7010
DOI - 10.21814/2i.2650
Subject(s) - posthumanism , posthuman , alterity , epistemology , sociology , field (mathematics) , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The present article wishes to present critical posthumanism as an ethics of radical alterity. It is divided into three explanatory moments: firstly, it provides a set of perfunctory remarks on the interdisciplinary field of posthumanism; it will then proceed to a general overview of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (2013); finally, a brief case-study analysis of W. Szymborska’s poetry will be conducted, thus hoping to show how posthumanist theory can illuminate literary texts and, indeed, how these can, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory.