Posthuman Convergences

Goda Klumbytė is a postdoctoral researcher at the Participatory IT Design department at the University of Kassel, Germany. Her research engages feminist new materialism, posthumanism, human-computer interaction and algorithmic systems design, with the focus on ethics, explainability and transdisciplinary methods in AI and machine learning. Klumbytė co-edited More Posthuman Glossary with R. Braidotti and E. Jones (Bloomsbury, 2022), and published work in Posthuman Glossary (Braidotti & Hlavajova, Bloomsbury, 2018), New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies (Hepp et al. 2022) Everyday Feminist Research Praxis (Leurs & Olivieri, Camrbidge Scholars, 2015), journals Online Information Review, Digital Creativity and ASAP, as well as presented at informatics conferences such as ACM’s CHI, nordiCHI and FAccT. Emily Jones is a Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow based in Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University. Dr Jones’ interdisciplinary research broadly examines modes of resistance and hope in relation to the theory and practice of public international law, drawing on feminist, queer, posthuman, postcolonial and critical disability studies in that aim. Dr Jones' is the author of Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge, 2023). She also co-authoed The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis, Volume One, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and has co-edited two volumes: International Law & Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024) and the More Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2022). Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).

Posthuman Convergences, inspired by Rosi Braidotti's capacious vision for the posthumanities, argues for the necessity of the transversal, anticolonial, environmental, material, and feminist humanities. The wildly divergent essays undertake transdisciplinary methodological experiments, creative practices, and open dialogues, urging us to revitalize modes of inquiry essential for this perilous and precarious moment.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosi BraidottiPart I. Trans-disciplinary Convergences1. Shimmering Resonance: Artistic Practice/Marine Sciences/PosthumanismFiona Hillary and Prue Francis2. Reworlding: Posthuman Thinking/Urban Play/Technology/Place-Based Knowledges/Indigenous Cosmologies Troy Innocent, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs3. ''Dwelling in the dissolve...'' Towards Transdisciplinary Posthuman Pedagogies for Complex Times: Pedagogies/Posthumanities/Affect/ArtPeter Shukie and Kay Sidebottom4. Rethinking Postcolonial Conjunctures: Post-Digital/Post-Migration/Post-HumanitarianismLaura Candidatu, Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi5. Indigenous Nation Rebuilding: Politics/Law/Ecology/SecurityMatthew Walsh, Simone Bignall, Daryle Rigney and Steve Hemming6. Outer Space Law: Posthumanism/Feminism/Anarchism/DecolonisationEmily Jones, Simone Bignall and Rosi Braidotti7. Encountering Rivers and Robots as Legal Subjects in Four Acts: Law/Critical Theory/Speculative FictionKatja de Vries, Yaffa Epstein, Olga Goriunova and Niels van Dijk8. New Materialist Informatics: New Materialism/Computer Science/Technology DesignGoda Klumbytė and Claude Draude9. Art as Metadiscipline: Art/Everything Else Matthew FullerPART II. Trans-corporeal Convergences10. (Sym)Poetics of Biomineralisation: Molecular Biology/Literature/Posthuman PoeticsRuth Alison Clemens and Jennifer Aurelie Crouch11. Accessing Disabled Futures through Research-Creation: Crip/Technoscience/New MaterialismKelly Fritsch and Suze Berkhout12. Making Care Perceptible: Nursing/Intuitive Movement/Posthuman CareJamie B. Smith, Eva Willis, Kieran Sheehan and Emily Jones13. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals at the Crossroads of the Humanities and Sciences: Public Health/ Embodiment/ Smell StudiesRachel Lee14. Poetic Posthumanities: Art/Poetry/ResearchNina LykkeConclusion: (Infra)Structures for the ConvergencesGoda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosi BraidottiAbout the ContributorsIndex