A Thing-Centric World: From Instrumentalized Objects to Vital Materiality
“My interest in the posthuman is directly proportional to the sense of frustration I feel about the human, all too human, resources and limitations that frame our collective and personal identity” (Braidotti,194).
It’s difficult to remove ourselves from the equation, or even from the centre of our thoughts and subsequent actions.
While creating a new university model is not the focus of my assignment, becoming-learned helped me present the progress of my project in a more post-human way, taking into account cartographical variety.Posthumanism provides a framework where rather than completely removing the self, we may rethink our relationality, in an effort to derail the “knowing subject” that promotes a self-centred attitude (Braidotti, 143).
Throughout this assignment, I considered an audience that is becoming posthuman. While some may argue that my focus on a human audience is paradoxical in a posthuman context, I argue that the reshaping of the subject away from the Vitruvian model towards posthuman subjectivity by way of radical relationality is posthumanist work.