Posthuman Aesthetics is a research project at Aarhus University on the posthuman in art and literatu
Artificial or cloned organs, babies with multiple parents, expansion of longevity, brain-controlled remote action compensating paralysis: Biotechnology, backed up by information science, increasingly challenges what it means to be human. Evaluating the ethical perspectives, public debates still tend to stick to a static image of the human body, seeing the goal of biotechnological interventions as
09/08/2018
Watch the presentations at the symposium "Duchamp's Readymades" at Aarhus University 2018
Texts and media Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (eds): The Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges. Aarhus, 2012.
26/06/2018
A great line-up in Copenhagen at the end of August
Moving art - Philosophical and Pscyhological Explorations Art moves us by eliciting intense experiences that go beyond reflection and formal language. It unfolds in the dimension of the pre-reflective, which in philosophy and psychology has been described as the origin of all consciousness and reflective thinking.
06/05/2018
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Just as unnoticed as they were in their first stagings around Word War I, Duchamp’s readymades have since the 1960s acquired the status as almost the originary site of avant-garde subversion. With Fountain (1917) as the leading icon, the readymades seemingly mock and destabilize the whole horizon of expectance connected to art works: skill, originality, taste, aesthetic value, difference from technology, distance from bodily functions, even stable objecthood. But even considering the vast amount of art historical interpretations piled up around the readymades, they still retain an aura of mystery, of something radically unexplainable, which even Duchamp himself couldn’t abstain from.
In this seminar, we wish to look at the readymades afresh, reevaluating them both in their contemporary contexts and through the lens of reception histories. How exceptional were they in their own time? Were they the result of a program, or did they pop up haphazardly? Were they the result of Duchamp’s intentions or of a more collective enterprise? Do they stand out from Duchamp’s other works, notably the Large Glass (1915-23), or are they intimately woven together with them? How do they relate to contexts such as commodity fetishism, (anti)work culture, gender politics, antihumanism, philosophy of technology, and (pseudo)scientific enterprises such as pataphysics and physics of higher dimensions? Should they be seen as a special moment in avant-garde art history, or have they been fully absorbed by later art movements such as Fluxus, pop, conceptual art and relational aesthetics?
Duchamp’s Readymades: A Reevaluation In this seminar, we wish to look at the readymades afresh, reevaluating them both in their contemporary contexts and through the lens of reception histories.
12/10/2017
Human Futures' annual conference focuses on temporality. Send in your short abstract before Oct. 22.
14/04/2017
Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages - Doctoral Research Fellowship in The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality in Literary and Cultural Texts A Doctoral Research Fellowship in “The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality in Literary and Cultural Texts” is available in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages, University of Oslo.
23/03/2017
Conference at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Mostly for graduate students...
Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene course - Utrecht Summer School 2017 - The Netherlands This course offers an introduction to contemporary debates around posthumaninsm and the so-called ‘posthuman turn’, as well as Rosi Braidotti’s brand of critical posthuman theory. The course will explore the extent to which a posthuman approach displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subje...
08/02/2017
Considering a Marie Curie Fellowship? Aarhus University conducts a seminar (travel and stay paid) for prospective candidates on May 16-18. Feel free to write me at [email protected] if you are interested.
29/11/2016
Postdoc positions at Aarhus University (deadline February 3, 2017)
AIAS-COFUND Fellowships Find your way around Aarhus University’s locations in Aarhus. Search by building numbers or addresses and see where the different units are located.
23/11/2016
Interesting big picture based on what is happening now.
What will humans look like in 100 years? We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the wa...
18/10/2016
Artist and researcher Ionat Zurr is giving a talk at Aarhus University Wednesday 26th of October! The lecture is open to the public.
POSTHUMAN AESTHETICS SEMINAR SERIES Lecture by Dr. Ionat Zurr, artist and researcher at SymbioticA, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, founding member of the Tissue Culture & Art Project, and Visiting Professor at BiofiliA - Base for Biological Art and Design, Aalto University, Helsi...