Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Braidotti is a theorist of posthumanism who argues for retaining a notion of subject-hood even as we move beyond anthropocentric frameworks, a position the course readings invoke to navigate the tension between decentering human agency and maintaining grounds for ethical and normative claims. Her work appears to ground debates in the course about what remains of human responsibility and normativity once we've abandoned the illusion of a stable, autonomous subject—particularly in conversations about how AI and posthuman systems demand new ethical frameworks rather than the erasure of ethics altogether. The readings cite her as crucial for thinking through posthumanism not as liberation from the human, but as a reconfiguration of agency and accountability within entangled, distributed systems.

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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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