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August 4, 2020Journal of Posthuman Studies

Posthuman Knowledge

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SSSara Santos

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Theoretical critique outlines an affirmative ethical framework in contemporary academia, highlighting how posthuman knowledge bridges institutional structures and planetary challenges.

Key Points

  • To articulate an affirmative ethical framework and pedagogical model for the critical posthumanities in response to technological, political, and ecological crises.
  • Synthesized Deleuzian feminist philosophy, Spinozist ethics of capacity (potentia), and new materialist epistemologies.
  • Evaluated institutional structures of knowledge production alongside contemporary conditions of neoliberal acceleration, authoritarianism, and climate distress.
  • Identified collective exhaustion and sociopolitical fatigue as generative thresholds for transformative relational praxis rather than passive defeat.
  • Demonstrated that decentralizing traditional humanism through minoritarian sciences—including feminist, queer, disability, and decolonial studies—fosters transversal, nonhierarchical knowledge systems.
  • Formulated a posthuman pedagogical model centered on collaborative inquiry, nonhuman ecological entanglements, and renewed democratic engagement.

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Sara Santos (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a100d2e64e8141cd25ffd15https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.4.1.0107
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