Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Braidotti's posthumanist philosophy provides a conceptual framework for rethinking subjectivity and agency beyond anthropocentric humanism, which the course readings mobilize to navigate the ethical stakes of AI and machine learning's impact on what counts as a subject or agent. Her work appears here as a crucial interlocutor for debates about whether posthumanism requires abandoning the subject entirely or whether some form of subject-hood remains necessary for making normative claims in a world transformed by cybernetics and algorithmic systems. The readings invoke Braidotti to ground arguments about how we might construct posthuman ethics without defaulting either to human exceptionalism or to a theoretical dispersal that leaves no ground for responsibility.

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David Roden

Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia

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Posthumanism is consequently not - as some claim - an ethics committed to releasing the world from the philosophical grip of anthropocentrism. A sedentary, relatable world against which anthropocentrism once appeared tenable or well-motivat…The deconstructive event is consequently not a radical alien or Other - alien or other to what? Deconstruction unbinds the structurality that would otherwise determine alterity and ipseity, sameness and difference, because no system can tot…Here, observe, the first posthumanism unbinds a filter (a constraint on posthuman possibility) retained by the second and vice versa: the sapience filter identifying agency with linguistic and conceptual aptitudes; the sentience filter iden…

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