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

This is an investigative attempt to create a hopeful new becoming of thought. It comes 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 critical and contextual tactics: Deleuze’s symptomatology, Shaviro’s science fiction and Frichot’s dirty theory maintaining an ecofeminist perspective. It examines maladies of anthropocentricism, problematics of institutionalised interdisciplinarity and lost cultures of contemplation. It uses science fiction and what-if/what-it-is-like scenarios to advocate for a new organism-environment entity defined as ‘slyborg’ (a slut-cyborg). It starts with definitions of posthuman life and zöe by Rosi Braidotti which, together with studies on neurobiology, lead us to an affirmation of organism-environment survival necessity. Helene Frichot’s creative ecology of dirty theory brings methodological inoculations that consider the unclean and smudged, the ambivalent and non-linear as potentiality for hopeful futures. These are not bound to the bias created by Eurocentric male-dominated traditions of superiority and lead to hypotheses freed from normative and institutionalised constructs. The essay explores sensing with the world 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
Additional Information:	** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** History: epub 17-11-2023; issued 17-11-2023.
Keywords:	General Engineering, Ocean Engineering
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Router
Depositing User:	JISC Router
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2023 12:53
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2023 13:22
URI:	https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18929

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