Sensing As… From Quorum Sensing to Immersion – A Posthuman Symptomatology

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ID17831710
AuthorsLiana Psarologaki (0000-0002-2870-3264, Buckinghamshire New University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume4
Issue1
Publication date2023-09-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropocenes – Human Inhuman Posthuman (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2633-4321 • E-ISSN: 2633-4321
PublisherUniversity of Westminster Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16997/ahip.1408
OpenAlexW4387091629
LanguageEN
References cited14

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

Posthuman · Empathy and Medical Education · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

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