Posthumanist Vulnerability. An Affirmative Ethics

The seminar "Posthumanist Vulnerability. An Affirmative Ethics" is scheduled for May 22, 2025 at 17.00 (Palazzo Boyl, Pisa). The event features as a speaker Christine Daigle, Full Professor in Philosophy presso la Brock University, Ontario, Canada, and founder of the Posthuman Research Institute (PRI), research center that brings together diverse voices and perspectives around the challenges of critical posthumanism; themes that intersect with those of the sub-area of research in Political Philosophy “Posthumanism, Philosophy and Politics of Technology” inaugurated by Prof. Barbara Henry at Scuola Sant'Anna. Introduction and moderation by Barbara Henry, Full Professor in Political Philosophy, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, participates in the discussion Ilaria Santoemma, Research Fellows, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. 

Abstract 

Dethroning the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, Critical Posthumansim highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. Whilst feminism has explored the affirming power of vulnerability, it’s been from a very human-centric viewpoint. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle’s proposal of a Posthuman Vulnerability fills a significant theoretical gap in posing a post-anthropocentric feminist take on being vulnerable in a more open, multispecies and relational way.