Dr. Mickey Vallee (Athabasca) will present a talk at our partner institution, WLU, on “Intimacy in an Age of Ubiquitous Listening. The talk is on March 26, 2018, 2-4 pm, Hawk’s nest. All are welcome!
We are happy to announce that the first Posthumanism Research Network/Posthumanism Research Institute workshop will take place on April 14-15, 2018, in PL 600F at Brock University. The theme is “Expressions and Images of the Posthuman.” This two-day interdisciplinary workshop will be open to the public.
We are fortunate to have a keynote presentation on “Chthulucinema, or the Cine-Squid from Hell” by William Brown (Roehampton University). More information on the workshop will be posted shortly, including a draft programme.
For any questions, contact Christine Daigle or Terrance McDonald.
We are happy to co-sponsor the Thinking About Animals conference which takes place March 1-2, 2018 at Brock University. You can find the program here.
The PRI and the ESRC (Environmental Sustainability Research Centre) are proud to host a talk by philosopher Byron Williston on “Ecological Nationalism and the Canadian Environmental Imaginary” on Friday, February 9, 2018, 11:00-12:30, in ST 105.
Dr. Cary Wolfe (Rice) will present the talk “There is No World: Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology” on Wednesday January 24, 2018, 3:30-5:00 pm, PL 600F. All are welcome.
Good news! If you miss one of our talks or cannot take the trip to our partner institution to attend a talk you can now watch the presentations on our YouTube Channel.
Dr. Stuart Murray (Leeds) presents on “Augmented Selves/Interrogating Prostheses” on October 6, 2017.
Dr. Margrit Shildrick (Linköping University) will be presenting the talk “Approaching Posthumanism: prostheses, technologies, and embodiment” on Monday, March 6, 14:00-15:30, in Plaza 600F.
Abstract: In the era of postmodernity, issues of bodies and technologies increasingly challenge not only the normative performance of the human subject, but also the very boundaries of what counts as human. Where in the past, the term prosthesis intended some material object that compensated for a substantive and negatively figured lack in embodiment, the emphasis now is firmly on enhancement and supplement. For many disabled people – whose interface with the world may rely to a greater or lesser extent on the deployment of prostheses – the mode of rehabilitation to normative practices is no longer the point; instead prostheses may be highly productive alternatives that inevitably queer experience itself. Going further, the notion of technological supplementarity can be transformed to encompass an understanding of embodiment as necessarily entailing assemblage – in both organic, non-organic and hybrid forms – as a mode of existence that troubles our human privilege.
