Ebook: Posthumanism in Practice

Posthumanism disrupts many of the assumptions that underly traditional humanist thinking. This thinking has profoundly shaped how we see ourselves, our place in the world and impacts how we treat said world. It was generally accepted that we, as humans, are easily defined as special, standing apart from animals, plants, and microbiota. These kinds of assumptions, both consciously and unconsciously, underpin scientific investigation, arts practice, curation, education, and research in the social sciences and humanities, and particularly as informed by traditions emerging from European and Enlightenment philosophies.
Posthumanism in Practice applies this disruptive posthumanist thinking to intersectional practices in the arts, sciences and humanities. It provides examples and insights to help us think through issues of methodology when applying posthumanist thinking to how to think, create and live. In this book, artists, researchers, educators, and curators set out how their own work has changed in response to engaging with posthumanism, or how the things that they have discovered can be better understood within this different paradigm. By capturing these ideas, Posthumanism in Practice shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action, and produce new artefacts, effects, and methods that are more relevant and useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st century.