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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Promising Futures? On Bioart, the Non/Living and Ethics
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Keynote lecture delivered at the NOBA Norwegian Bioart Arena Symposium “Thinking through matter – Exploring BioArt and design in a Norwegian contemporary context”, 2 April 2019, Ås, Norway.Bioartistic projects and objects both challenge the conventional ideas of embodiment and bodily boundaries, and problematise the relation between the living and non-living, organic and inorganic, human and nonhuman, as well as various thresholds of the living.By looking at select bioartworks, this lecture argues that the analysed projects offer a different ontology of life. More specifically, they expose life as uncontainable: as a power of differentiation that traverses the divide between the living and non-living, organic and inorganic, human and nonhuman, and, ultimately, life and death. BY doing so, they draw attention to excess, processuality and multiplicity at the very core of life itself. Thus understood, life always already surpasses preconceived material and conceptual limits.While taking feminist posthumanities as its theoretical ground, the lecture suggests that such a revision of the ontology of life may mobilise future conceptualisations of ethics that evade the anthropocentric logic dominant in the humanities and social sciences.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Storying Terminal Ecologies: On Death, Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Art : KEYNOTE
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the present-day context of environmental crises and the degradation of resources, certain habitats become unliveable, leading to the death of individuals, populations and species extinction. While biosciences underline interdependency and relationality as crucial characteristics of life shared by all organisms, Western cultural imaginaries seem draw a thick dividing line between humans and nonhumans, particularly evident in the context of death. On the one hand, death appears as a process common to all forms of life; on the other, as an event that distinguishes human from other organisms. Against this background, this keynote paper explores how contemporary art—in particular, the series of works The Absence of Alice (2008–2011) by Australian new-media and bioartist Svenja Kratz—challenges the normative and human-exceptionalist concept of death. By employing queerfeminist biophilosophy as a strategy that focuses on relations, processes and transformations instead of ‘essences’, the talk examines the ways Kratz’s works deterritorialise the conventional concept of death.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-, et al.
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Why we need feminist posthumanities for a more-than-human world
- 2019
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- If the humanities and the arts can be said to be broadly concerned with the self-reflection and understanding of the human species, the posthumanities comes about when we recognise the relationships between the multiple planetary alterations that go sometimes under the name the Anthropocene. We have drastic ecological changes to air, soil and biological reproduction, we have rapid species extinction rates, ubiquitous toxic embodiment and environmental health concerns, and non-sustainable climate changes ahead. Posthumanities also comes about with growing computational systems, security terrors, new biomedical ways of life, re-arranged life forms and synthetic biologies, amongst many many many things. All this impel us to recognise the wider forms and constituents of the condition that is no longer nameable simply as humanity. The world is not the same, now more humanised than ever (perhaps even all too human?), so why should the thinking habits and concepts we live our life by be the same?
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