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Loading... Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (edition 2006)by Rosi Braidotti (Author)This is a work of philosophy that starts from the premise that we can no longer see the world from a human-centric perspective. Instead, we need a feminist posthumanist philosophy that can better explain our relationship with other animals, advanced technology and globalized culture. Braidotti draws on the philosophies of Spinoza and Deleuze, among others, to argue for a positive conception of life and a more rigorous ethics. This departs from the negativity that she sees as central to the thought of Descartes, Hegel and Freud. She also argues against the injustices of neoliberalism, which perpetuates an ethnocentric idea of the subject, even as capitalism deterritorialises identities. In the later chapters Braidotti talks subjects such as desire and death in provocative and innovative ways. For those interest in a philosophy for a posthuman times, Transpositions offers an excellent place to begin. |
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