| Title: |
Beyond the Human: Crossovers for an Onto-epistemological Bifurcation |
| Authors: |
Toribio-Roura, Ester |
| Contributors: |
European Commission; MSCA RISE Networking Ecologically Smart Territories |
| Source: |
Articles |
| Publisher Information: |
Technological University Dublin |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Dublin Institute of Technology: ARROW@DIT (Archiving Research Resources on he Web) |
| Subject Terms: |
human identity; more-than-human; speculative fabulation; epistemic diversity; composting-with-care; Animal Sciences; Philosophy; Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Description: |
Building upon recent studies in new materialisms and feminist critical posthumanism with a focus on human and more-than-human relationships, this paper examines how the posthuman paradigm, by postulating the queering of identit(ies) via entanglement with the more-than-human (including technology), and by offering a critical examination of diverse modes of existence within a broader ecological context, can foster more inclusive and ethically sound ways of being in the world. Although posthumanism encompasses a wide range of perspectives and theories, including transhumanism, at its core, it challenges traditional notions of humanism, blurring the boundaries between what is human and what is more-than-human, while calling for a revaluation of anthropocentric, onto-epistemological, and ethical frameworks. This paper mobilises the framework and methodology of composting-with-care as an analytical tool to foster epistemic diversity, from quantum field theory to speculative fabulation, in the examination of the issue concerning human identity. It concludes by proposing a view where the self is not confined to the individual human but emerges through interactions (and intra-actions) with the world(s) of which the human is part, acknowledging the agency and influence of actors beyond the human on identity formation. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/gradcamart/25; https://arrow.tudublin.ie/context/gradcamart/article/1026/viewcontent/Ester_print.pdf |
| DOI: |
10.5840/bjp20241613 |
| Availability: |
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/gradcamart/25; https://doi.org/10.5840/bjp20241613; https://arrow.tudublin.ie/context/gradcamart/article/1026/viewcontent/Ester_print.pdf |
| Rights: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.99F85E0 |
| Database: |
BASE |