Posthuman Earth: Feminist & Critical Posthuman Approaches to Climate Change

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Abstract
The workshop aims to mobilize discussion around the ethics and politics of climate change in the frames of feminist and critical posthuman methodologies and theories. It is particularly worthwhile to analyze if and how relational approaches introduced as key to understanding both the human and more-than-human worlds today respond to environmental challenges and what kinds of ethics and politics do they offer. The visions of the co-dependent, intra-related, dynamic world of becoming-with that emerge from feminist and critical posthumanist perspectives provide a ground for rethinking the relations of symbiogenesis and co-becoming but also of dying-with and of “suffering from the ills of another species”. Co-dependency, thus, reveals worlds of relations that are incredibly productive, creative, and enduring, as well as vulnerable and fragile. What kinds of cartographies, imaginaries, stories, companion concepts, and visuals help us think through the ethics and politics of climate change and re-orient our bodies-environments in the entanglement of care and violence today?