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Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans (mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goats, disease-identifying rats) in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice—and opening up new ethical ways to think about being human in terms of how we interact with nonhuman animals. Meiches, author of Nonhuman Humanitarians, is joined here in conversation with Stefanie Fishel.

Benjamin Meiches is associate professor of politics at the Univeristy of Washington-Tacoma. He is author of Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics and The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide. 

Stefanie Fishel is lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Fishel is author of The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic and contributor to the edited volume The Long 2020.

EPISODE REFERENCES:

-Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights,” in Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (trans. Sean Hand)

-Heifer International (organization)

-J. M. Coetzee / The Lives of Animals

-Brian Massumi / What Animals Teach Us about Politics

-Liisa Malkki / The Need to Help

-Timothy Morton / Dark Ecology

-Timothy Morton / Ecology without Nature

-David Shannon / Duck on a Bike

-Jack Halberstam / Wild Things

-Eugene Thacker / In the Dust of This Planet

Focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche’s reception of the life sciences of his day (including concerns with insects and the emergent social properties they exhibit) and his reflections on technology—research areas as central to Nietzsche’s work as they are to posthumanism—Edgar Landgraf provides fresh readings of Nietzsche and a critique of posthumanist and transhumanist philosophies in his new book, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism. Here, Landgraf is joined in conversation with Christian Emden and Stefan Herbrechter.

Edgar Landgraf is distinguished research professor of German at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Nietzsche’s Posthumanism and Improvisation as Art, and coeditor of Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism and Play in the Age of Goethe.

Christian Emden is Frances Moody Newman Professor at Rice University where he teaches German intellectual history and political thought. He is author of several books on Nietzsche, including Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body.

Stefan Herbrechter is former Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University and former professor of English and cultural studies at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is an independent scholar of critical posthumanism and author of several books including Before Humanity and Posthumanism.

Episode references:

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cary Wolfe

Baruch Spinoza

Jane Bennett

Alfred Espinas

Bernard Stiegler

Ernst Kapp

Charles Darwin

Rosi Braidotti

Francesca Ferrando

Patricia MacCormack

Tamar Sharon 

Reading list:

Vibrant Matter / Jane Bennett

On Animal Societies / Alfred Espinas

Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy / Vanessa Lemm

Meeting the Universe Halfway / Karen Barad

Nietzsche’s Naturalism / Christian J. Emden

Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body / Christian J. Emden

How We Became Posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles

Staying with the Trouble / Donna Haraway

Posthumanism / Stefan Herbrechter

The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism / Arthur Kroker

Insect Media / Jussi Parikka

Before the Law / Cary Wolfe

Keywords: Nietzsche, posthumanism, transhumanism, critical posthumanism, swarm theory, insects, history of technology, human agency, posthumanist ethics, posthumanist politics

Kas po žmogaus? Posthumanizmas.

Laidos apie dirbtinį intelektą tęsinys.
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Bet ar žmogus vertas tokio dėmesio ir tokios meilės? Pagal posthumanihmo teoriją, perspektyvu į žmogų žiūrėti kaip į ekosistemos dalį, buvimą kontekste ir ryšyje su kitomis gyvybės formomis.

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Considering AI tools can now effectively mimic human communication, robots can ace the Turing test, and lobsters and crabs have been classified by some nations as sentient, the topic of consciousness has never been more timely or interesting.

Join this fascinating discussion on the latest developments and research regarding consciousness, including philosophical and scientific approaches to consciousness, the relationship between consciousness and the brain, and the potential implications of recent discoveries on our understanding of the human mind.

Speakers:

Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife professor of neuroscience; director of the USC Dornsife Brain and Creativity Institute. Author of numerous books, including Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious (2021).

Tok Thompson, professor (teaching) of anthropology and communication at USC Dornsife. Author of Posthuman Folklore (2019) which explores new concepts of personhood and The Truth of Myth (2020) which explores how fundamental narratives shape how we think of the world.

Moderated by: Jonas Kaplan, neuroscientist, associate professor of psychology and co-director the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center at USC Dornsife. 

Learn more about the Dornsife Dialogues and sign up for the next live event here.

Romina Achatz is in conversation with Luca Mussnig- aka. „Freakygreenfish“ or simply „Fish“- an inter- and transdisciplinary artist- a video artist, painter, performer and actionist. He aims to experience life as a living painting by destructing and redefining the traditional concept of a painting.

In the beginning Luca Mussning reads a personal and poetic text about his relationship with the textures frames and linen. Linen sometimes served as a healing cocoon and the frames allegorically stand for social structures and limitations that he would rather break and reconstruct.

In the first part of the interview, he talks about his path and when he made his first mask or sculpture out of frames and linen.

Fish disorganizes and deconstructs the existing forms and structures until they become new forms and structures. By deconstructing the traditional painting, Fish wants to free it from the corset of the institutional framework and to transfer it into an environment that is accessible for everyone.

Romina Achatz and Luca Mussing talk about class, the role of art/ artists and education within society, the definition of politics, Antonio Gramsci, activism and the accessibility of art from a sociological perspective. What role play social media (Tik Tok/ Instagram ecc.)  in the presentation of art and why is Luca invested in researching about an addressing the „holy algorithm“? What are the benefits and downsides of it?

In his performances, the face, from which individuality subjectivity aims to be read, is mostly covered in frames and linen. But the mask is still a representation and a brand. Is to disguise and obscure the identity an effective practice of political resistance to the neoliberal call for transparency? They discuss his work in the framework of the hegemony of facility- and if it refers to the art of disappearing that Jean Baudrillard was writing about.

In the last part of the interview Romina Achatz and Luca Mussing talk about Audre Lorde and her quote: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Thinking with the book „Pleasure activism“ by Adrienne Maree Brown they discuss the difference between self care in the framework of an neoliberal self optimisation pressure versus true relaxation and pleasure.

The show ends with question to Fish: What is your mission for the future regarding our society?

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After a mysterious booking appears in her iCal, Karen turns up at the rented Hollywood home of megastar Jakki Chann, but soon discovers that Jakki's wife will not be joining them. Instead, another VIP in Jakki's life makes themselves known. Over delicious homemade bao, Karen uncovers a story of jealousy, betrayal and ground-breaking A. I. technology paralleled only by 2002's The Tuxedo.

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I recently watched the new 4th season of Black Mirror on Netflix, and, if this season has a theme, I’d say it’s the concept of digital immortality. Can human consciousness be transferred into digital form? And, if so, is this digital version of ourselves as alive as the old carbon-based model? I keep thinking about this possibility, because, for the first time in human history, it does seem possible. And I’m not the only person who thinks so. We talk a lot about the past here on Timesuck, and we will again, but, we’re going to talk about the future. A future of very exciting and mind-bending possibilities. Dissected and discussed today, on Timesuck!

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