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christine_exlibris's review against another edition
5.0
As a relatively new acolyte, I won't pretend that much of what Braidotti argues in this book is completely understandable to me, as some sections are very dense indeed (or perhaps it is I who is dense, for not grasping all she puts forth). However, I will say that I completely agree that as humans we've pretty much made a mess of the planet, despite our technological advances much of it has been to our detriment, especially our social online techno interactions with its invasive algorithms, that we've lost much of our own (human) agency. Not to mention the contemporary market (global) economies and how consumerism simply feeds into the insatiable capitalist machine churning out huge corporate profits. We have lost much in our collective and individual pursuits of comfort and wealth and destroyed much of the planet (and animals) in the interim. In her conclusion, Braidotti suggests that our only hope for a sustainable future may be in constructing a "new social bonding and community building while pursuing sustainability and empowerment". The question is, are we ready and capable?
fime's review against another edition
3.0
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le rescato cosas pero parece que habla de la misma excelente idea 300 pags
le rescato cosas pero parece que habla de la misma excelente idea 300 pags
ryannek's review against another edition
3.0
"‘Life’ … is an acquired taste, an addiction like any other, an open-ended project. One has to work at it. Life is passing and we do not own it; we just inhabit it, not unlike a time-share location."
sleepyllamasciencegirl's review against another edition
2.5
2 leave only footsteps in da sand & 2 take only memories
Content Warnings
“female body feminists”
suejay27's review against another edition
5.0
One of the seminal books that I have or will read this decade.
dreamtokens's review against another edition
3.0
A theoretical exploration of philosophies for posthumanism, Braidotti's book makes a case for a specific kind: a monist (Spinozist), vitalist, postanthropocentric, (antihumanist) posthumanism. With a vocabulary informed by Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, the author shows a short, subjective presentation of humanism and of other kinds of posthumanism(s): Nussbaum's reactive, human rights based view and the techno-scientific view. Research in posthumanist times is explored, in terms of: (1) becoming-animal (in capitalist society all bodies are modified for consumption, animal or human), which draws inspiration from Donna Haraway, but also from such positions as Frans de Waals', with his moral research on animals; (2) becoming - earth, in topics such as Deep Ecology (which she disagrees with as she considers it interprets the world according to human egoistic progressive views); (3) becoming machine.
Afterwards she argues strongly for her case, a kind of hybrid, subjective, positioned, nonlinear, critical and creative, ethical and imaginative stance towards posthumanism and the kind of humanities that should be researching it.
I'm confused as to what to think right now. I'm not sure I understood some arguments. Others, I understood, but I'm not sure they have convinced me. I also feel her argument is a bit unclear and it's all hidden behind big words.
Afterwards she argues strongly for her case, a kind of hybrid, subjective, positioned, nonlinear, critical and creative, ethical and imaginative stance towards posthumanism and the kind of humanities that should be researching it.
I'm confused as to what to think right now. I'm not sure I understood some arguments. Others, I understood, but I'm not sure they have convinced me. I also feel her argument is a bit unclear and it's all hidden behind big words.