Sensing As… From Quorum Sensing to Immersion – a posthuman symptomatology
Psarologaki, Liana (2023) Sensing As… From Quorum Sensing to Immersion – a posthuman symptomatology. Anthropocenes Human, Inhuman, Posthuman, 4 (1). ISSN 2633-4321
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Abstract
What follows in the next pages is an investigative attempt to create a hopeful new becoming of thought. It is composed in response to contemporary issues of care, the schism between and respective weaknesses of both sciences and humanities to advance with each other and pressing issues of climate and social justice. It aims to determine the potential of a new interdisciplinarity (an inter-disciplination) of posthumanities through three key critical and contextual tactics: Deleuze’s symptomatology, Shaviro’s science fiction and Frichot’s dirty theory maintaining an ecofeminist perspective. It examines through such the maladies of anthropocentricism, the problematics of institutionalised interdisciplinarity and lost cultures of contemplation. It uses examples of science fiction and what-if/what-it-is-like scenarios to advocate for a new organism-environment entity defined as “slyborg” (a slut-cyborg). The starting point is the definitions of posthuman life and zöe by Rosi Braidotti which, together with studies on neurobiology leads us to an affirmation of organism-environment survival necessity. Helene Frichot’s creative ecology of dirty theory brings a methodological inoculation that allows considering the unclean and smudged, the ambivalent and non-linear as potentiality for hopeful futures that are not bound to the bias created by Eurocentric male-dominated traditions of superiority and leads to hypotheses freed from normative and institutionalised constructs. The essay explores notions of sensing with the world as conditions affirming life around two concepts: quorum sensing and immersion. It assigns these to the slyborg as definitive characteristics beyond species and territory implying therefore that the slyborg is post-anthropocentric – an entity-topos. It concludes with a hopeful scenario that the slyborg is ready to emerge as hopeful ecosystemic transformation born out crisis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | immersion, symptom, posthuman, sensing, interdisciplinary |
| Depositing User: | RED Unit Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2023 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2023 11:50 |
| URI: | https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18818 |
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