Rosi Braidotti's research addresses the three main challenges that frame the posthuman condition as our historical location, which cannot be delegated to a distant utopian future. We are confronted by three interconnected changes. First, at the environmental level, the devastation of the environment and multiple species; second, at the technological level, as transhumanism becomes the official ethos of capitalism, the status of humans is redefined by the life sciences and advanced technologies and the digital interconnections they afford us. And third, at the social level we witness increasing structural injustices through the unequal distribution of wealth, prosperity and access to the new green economy and to advanced technologies. Neo-materialist cartographies of knowledge and power today and affirmative ethics are thus, accoring to Braidotti, the most adequate way of accounting for the posthuman predicament and the new power relations they are developing.
Rosi Braidotti
Vita
Rosi Braidotti is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University. She holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Main publications: Nomadic Subjects (2011a), and Nomadic Theory (2011b), Columbia University Press; The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019), and Posthuman Feminism (2022), Polity Press; The Posthuman Glossary (2018), and More Posthuman Glossary (2022), Bloomsbury Academic.
During her Dinstinguished Auerbach Fellowship in 2024 she held a particularly well attended „Summer Lecture“ on „Posthumanism, Materialism, Affirmation: Feminist Perspectives.“ In addition, she offered a workshop on the topic of „Revisiting Nomadic Subjects – 30 Years Later“, in which she discussed several chapters from two of her key publications: „Posthuman feminism“ (2022) and „Nomadic Subjects – Embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory“ (2011, originally published in 1994) with the participants.
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy
Feminist Theory
Publications (Selection)
Posthuman Feminism. Polity Press 2021
Politik der Affirmation. Merve Verlag 2018
Nomadic Subjects. Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. Second Edition. Columbia University Press 2011.
