[ecrea] Disrupting the Humanities Seminar Series: Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities

The Centre for Disruptive Media presents

Disrupting the Humanities

A series of 3 half-day seminars looking at research and scholarship in a 
'posthumanities' context, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media 
at Coventry University.
Disrupting the Humanities will both critically engage with the humanist 
legacy of the humanities, and creatively explore alternative and 
affirmative possible futures for the humanities.

http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/wiki/

The third seminar will take place on Monday March 9th at Coventry 
University (ET130) from 5:00-7:30pm
Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities
Speakers:

Monika Bakke (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Lesley Gourlay (Institute of Education – UCL)
Niamh Moore (University of Edinburgh)
Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)

The event is free but registration is recommended to ensure a place 
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/wiki/

Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities
This seminar will focus on some of the radical methodologies that are 
questioning the established disciplinary forms, methods and practices of 
the humanities. It will explore how these emergent methodologies are 
finding ways of moving beyond the humanist emphasis in the humanities on 
the individualized creative human author, originality, intellectual 
property, the fixed and finished object, writing and the book.

In doing so this seminar will provide a space for thinking further about 
the distributed, heterogeneous, humans, nonhumans, objects and 
non-anthropomorphic elements that are collectively involved in the 
creation, circulation and performance of 'humanities' research and 
scholarship. To provide just one example, in the case of an ink on paper 
and card book, this would take in most obviously its publishers, 
editors, peer-reviewers, designers, copyeditors, proofreaders, printers, 
publicists, marketers, distributors, retailers, purchasers and readers. 
But it would also embrace all the other 'multiple connections and lines 
of interaction that necessarily connect the text to its many "outsides"' 
(Rosi Braidotti): those concerning the labour involved (e.g. that of the 
agency workers, packers and so-called 'ambassadors' in Amazon's 
warehouses), the financial investments made, the shipping and container 
costs, the environmental impact, the resources used, the plants, dyes, 
oils, petroleum distillates, salts, compounds, pigments and so on.

In the dynamic 'meshwork' (Tim Ingold) of 'intra-actions' (Karen Barad) 
between the human, the animal, the environment and technology that 
constitutes the University in the 21st century (including all the 
associated software, code, data and algorithms, their physical supports 
and material substrates: wires, chips, circuits, disks, drives, 
networks, airwaves, electrical charges etc.), who or what is it exactly 
that produces knowledge and that can know? What does the use of 
networked digital media, devices and platforms mean for our methods and 
the way we carry out research? How do they constitute and mediate its 
means of production and communication? And if knowledge and research are 
the result of complex processes involving both human and non-human 
objects and actants, what does this mean for politics and ethics? In 
short, how can we perform knowledge-making practices differently, to the 
point where we actually begin to take on (rather than take for granted, 
repress or ignore) the implications of the posthuman for how we live, 
work and act as academics and researchers? What can the humanities 
become in all these entangled constellations?

Monday March 9th
Coventry University
Jordan Well
Ellen Terry Building, Room 130 (ET130)
CV1 5RW Coventry
United Kingdom

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