ZOEPOLIS. W stronę dizajnu poza paradygmatem antropocentrycznym

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (52) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Monika Rosińska ◽  
Agata Szydłowska
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Wildlife Protection ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Introductory Discussion

The article provides an introductory discussion on design practice that contributes to a possible constitution of an expanded community composed of humans, non-human animals and other species. It starts with an examination of existing approaches to design and art that take into consideration relationships between humans and non-humans. We divide them into three types: one, which is focused on a wildlife protection, second which reflects on an animal perspective and third, which recognizes animals as creators. Departing from a critique of given approaches we propose a new one basing on theories of Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson, Donna Haraway, Joanna Bednarek and Bruno Latour. Thus the concept of zoepoliscould be defined as a city and a community of living creatures. It would be based not on a hierarchy but on relations on various levels. This concept leads us to a formulation of possible questions and challenges of this expanded community for design practice where material environment could mediate between species and facilitate the cohabitation.

scholarly journals Plant Life and More-than-human Agency in Zainab Amadahy’s Resistance

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Paula Wieczorek
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Cultural Violence ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
As If

For centuries humans have acted as if the environment was passive and as if the agency was related only to human beings. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, scholars, and artists express the need to narrate tales about the multitudes of the living earth, which can help perceive the Earth as vibrant and living. The following paper discusses Black/Cherokee Zainab Amadahy’s speculative fiction novel 2013 Resistance as an example of a story resisting the claim about human beings as the ultimate species. The paper initially scrutinizes the phenomena of “plant blindness” and then explores how Zainab Amadahy illustrates plant life in her book. Unlike in traditional literary depictions of botany, the writer presents tobacco as an active and responsive agent that influences the characters, which, consequently, opposes anthropocentrism. The article also addresses the cultural violence and disregard that has dominated the Western perception of animistic cultures and expresses the need to rethink the theory of animism. This paper draws from posthumanist writings by scholars including Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Stacy Alaimo. It also refers to some of the most influential contributions to critical plant studies made by Indigenous thinkers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer’ s Braiding Sweetgrass (2013).

Ecological Time: Natures that Matter to Activism and Art

APRIA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-183
Author(s):  
Monique Peperkamp
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Human History ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Agent Of Change

The term 'Anthropocene' brings together a range of interrelated ecological catastrophes and relates human history to the time scales of the Earth. While dominant modes of thinking maintain technocratic notions of nature and time, art has (re)presented alternative proposals and practices that radically shift perception. To foreground and strengthen the power of art to challenge core cultural assumptions and motivate change, this text maps out the implications of philosophical positions often referred to by artists. I consider the ideas of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Andreas Malm, Naomi Klein and T. J. Demos, and perform a more indepth inquiry of the aesthetics proposed by Timothy Morton. Two works of art are at the beginning and at the end of this inquiry: Progress vs. Regress (Progress II) and Nocturnal Gardening, both by Melanie Bonajo. A material sense of time appears to be pivotal for art as an agent of change.

Rediscovering Design Education as a Social Constructivist Foundation for Innovative Design Thinking

2011 ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Johann van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

Design has been described by Bruno Latour as the missing masses, and tellingly as “nowhere to be said and everywhere to be felt” (2005: 73). Traditionally, not only objects, but design’s presence in general has gone largely unnoticed by the public, but that is changing, due, in considerable part, to the ubiquitous presence of computing technology. Design, as representative of unnoticed and neutral objects, is no longer feasible, but design, as a participative presence in the lives of its users, is fast gaining ground in our complex society. Designers are no longer fully in control of the design process, meaning design practice, and as a result design education must change to adapt to the increasing pace at which different social groups are evolving new ways of communicating and living.

scholarly journals Critical political ecology and the seductions of posthumanism

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fayaz Chagani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Domains ◽  
Modes Of Existence ◽  
Conceptual Resources

"Posthumanist" theories have become increasingly popular among scholars in political ecology and other fields in the human sciences. The hope is that they will improve our grasp of relations between humans and various nonhumans and, in the process, offer the means to recompose the "social" and the "natural" domains. In this paper, I assess the merits of posthumanisms for critical scholarship. Looking specifically at the work of Bruno Latour (including his latest book, An inquiry into modes of existence) and Donna Haraway, I argue that posthumanist thinking offers not only analytical but normative advantages over conventional and even Marxian approaches. But these newer frameworks contain their own ethico-political limitations and, to the extent that they are useful for addressing conditions of injustice, they continue to depend upon conceptual resources from their precursors. For this reason, a critical political ecology would best be served by preserving a tension between humanist and posthumanist methods.Keywords: posthumanism, critical theory, political ecology, human-nonhuman relations, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway

scholarly journals Overvågning som situeret praksis – et teoretisk bidrag til overvågningsforskningen

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gad ◽  
Peter Lauritsen
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Situated Practice ◽  
Alternative Understanding

To metaforer, Big Brother og panoptikon, dominerer diskussioner om overvågnings generelle karakteristika. På trods af forskelle bidrager de begge til at skabe en bekymret og kritisk indstilling til fænomenet og rummer derved nogle væsentlige analytiske begrænsninger. Med udgangspunkt i Donna Haraways begreb om ”situeret viden” og Bruno Latours begreb om ”oligoptikon” udvikler artiklen en alternativ forståelse, hvor overvågning ses som et situeret fænomen. Begrebet ”situeret overvågning” udvikles videre gennem et empirisk studie af overvågningspraksis på det danske fiskerikontrolskib Vestkysten. Det viser sig, at overvågning på Vestkysten ikke lader sig indfange med Big Brother og panoptikon som udgangspunkt. På Vestkysten handler overvågning også om omsorg, modstand, friktion og om en situation, hvor forholdet mellem overvåger og overvåget udviskes. Søgeord: Situeret viden, Big Brother, panoptikon, oligopticon, overvågning, fiskerikontrol. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Christopher Gad and Peter Lauritsen: Surveillance as Situated Practice Two ideas dominate the debates about the general characteristics of surveillance: Big Brother and the panopticon. These ideas foster a critical stance towards surveillance and have important analytical limitations. This paper develops an alternative understanding of surveillance as a situated phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the concept of “situated surveillance” is developed through a case study of surveillance activities onboard the Danish fisheries inspection vessel Vestkysten. The case study shows how surveillance in this context is different from what one would imagine if Big Brother or the panopticon was chosen as starting point for analysis. Surveillance onboard Vestkysten is about care, resistance and friction in a situation in which the distinction between the observer and the observed is blurred. Key words: Situated knowledge, Big Brother, panopticon, oligopticon, surveillance, fisheries inspection.

scholarly journals Sobre a tecnopólis

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Paulo Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway

Partindo da constatação de uma anunciada “crise” dos paradigmas epistemológicos modernos, passamos a pensá-la em relação ao “problema arquitetônico”. Ponto inicial para tal reflexão é o ensaio “Jamais fomos Modernos” de Bruno Latour e o conhecido “Manifesto em favor dos Ciborgues” da bióloga Donna Haraway, onde uma espécie de “programa” para pensar tal crise está esboçado. Buscamos problematizar seu mito ciborgue e o novo território que junto dele emerge, a polis-tecnológica. Em nosso horizonte, isso significa posicionar - a partir de uma ótica foucaultiana – a arquitetura como dispositivo atuante nos modos de individuação e diferenciação das formas coletivas de vida.

scholarly journals Repensando as abstrações: uma convocação da incerteza

Sociologias ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (53) ◽  
pp. 264-273
Author(s):  
Ângela Camana
Keyword(s):  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

Resumo Nesta obra, Isabelle Stengers retoma mais uma vez as contribuições da filosofia processual de Alfred North Whitehead para discutir a produção de conhecimento na modernidade, tema proeminente da vasta e pouco traduzida ao português obra da filósofa belga. Em diálogo com pensadores contemporâneos, como Anna Tsing, Bruno Latour e Donna Haraway, Civiliser la modernité? nos convoca a ponderar o que podem as Humanidades conhecer frente às contingências e incertezas de nosso tempo. A resenha busca explorar sobretudo as potenciais contribuições da obra para as ciências sociais, articulando a discussão filosófica e desdobramentos metodológicos.

History and Animal Agencies

2016 ◽  
pp. 239-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resistance Model ◽  
Nonhuman Agency ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Animal Agency

The argument that animals are agents is becoming ever more commonplace and forms part of a wider posthumanist intellectual project that reconsiders the power and role of nonhuman forces in both the past and the present. However, according agency to nonhumans raises significant methodological and theoretical issues. Informed by the approaches of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, and others, this chapter offers an overview of the varied ways in which scholars have attributed agency to animals. After considering how animals have historically been denied agency, it explores how animals are agents imbued with a degree of intentionality. It then investigates how animal agents have physically shaped past and present societies and the problematic nonhuman-agency-as-resistance model. This typology is intended to show that animals possess agency, but that claims of animal agency need to be made carefully to better capture the hybrid world we inhabit.

scholarly journals A ciência da retórica da ciência

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Juliana Coutinho Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway

Trata-se de uma reflexão sobre os campos das retóricas e das ciências e sobre algumas possibilidades e controvérsias presentes nas relações que aí se estabelecem. O artigo busca os conceitos e definições de retórica ao longo dos tempos e avalia sua utilização com propósitos de difusão científica. Para compor este trabalho foram chamados para a conversa nomes de peso do cenário dos estudos sociotécnicos como Bruno Latour, John Law e Donna Haraway.

scholarly journals Cultivando imagens de insubmissão

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 351-364
Author(s):  
Giovana Acacia Tempesta
Keyword(s):  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Blade Runner

O ensaio consiste em uma interpretação não convencional da saga Blade Runner, formulada sob a inspiração de ideias desenvolvidas por Claude Lévi-Strauss, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour e Suely Rolnik. Para além de resenhar um filme específico, pretendo dialogar com projeções estéticas em torno da qualidade das relações estabelecidas entre humanos e androides, a partir de alguns conceitos caros à antropologia, tais como agência, vinculamento, criação e contestação.

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