Posthuman Sustainability

An Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future

Bibliographic Data

ID2352986
AuthorsOlga Cielemęcka (0000-0002-8022-7971, University of Turku), Christine Daigle (0000-0003-1646-9770, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume36
Issue7-8
Pages67-87
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276419873710
OpenAlexW2975985271
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited36

Confronted with an unprecedented scale of human-induced environmental crisis, there is a need for new modes of theorizing that would abandon human exceptionalism and anthropocentrism and instead focus on developing environmentally ethical projects suitable for our times. In this paper, we offer an anti-anthropocentric project of an ethos for living in the Anthropocene. We develop it through revisiting the notion of sustainability in order to problematize the linear vision of human-centric futurity and the uniform 'we' of humanity upon which it relies. We ground our analyses in posthumanism and material feminism, using works by posthumanist and material feminist thinkers such as Stacy Alaimo, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway and Jane Bennett, among others. In dialogue with them, we offer the concept of posthuman sustainability that decenters the human, re-positions it in its ecosystem and, while remaining attentive to difference, fosters the thriving of all instances of life

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Commodification · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Feminism · Humanity · Political science · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Technoscience · Thriving · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology

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