POSTHUMANISM

POSTHUMANISM

PRESENTATION DEFINITION

The presentation describes posthumanism as challenging the centrality of:

• the individual human subject;
• the bounded body;
• consciousness;
• sovereignty;
• the human as the primary unit of reference.

DECENTRING

It redirects attention toward what exceeds or precedes the individual:

• collective formations;
• matter;
• animals;
• machines;
• affect;
• bodily overflow.

YBDG CONNECTION

STUDENT PRESENTATION — INTERPRETIVE FRAME:

YBDG’s shifting collective, bodily materials, objects, digital circulation and non-fixed authorship are read through this posthumanist frame.

SOURCE LIMIT

The presentation does not provide:

• an official YBDG posthumanist manifesto;
• a complete theoretical bibliography;
• evidence that every member uses the term.

Do not present posthumanism as a unanimously declared group doctrine.