Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities — Rosi Braidotti

Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration and exhaustion. Rosi Braidotti argues that we must think about these apparent contradictions all together in order to make differences that actually matter. In a lecture that seemingly spans a myriad of complex, contradicting topics, Rosi Braidotti situates us in posthuman convergence between the Fourth industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction and between and advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and non-human entities.