This lecture addresses the ethical implications of posthuman feminism. 

My claim cuts two ways: firstly I want to build bridges across different communities and argue that mainstream posthuman scholarship has neglected feminist theory, while in fact feminist theory is one of the precursors of the posthuman turn. Feminism and posthumanism need each other and that they are two sides of the same coin. Conversely, feminists have to engage more directly with the challenges of the posthuman predicament and become more actively involved in public debates and policy-making in this area.

 

What I have called the posthuman convergence (Braidotti2013; 2019; 2022) is defined as the simultaneous occurrence of cognitive capitalism (aka Fourth Industrial Revolution) and the climate change (aka Sixth Extinction). It encourages a critical reappraisal of what counts as human, and how humans relate to non-humans and living matter itself. Posthuman feminism proposes a form of ethical accountability developed from the critiques of both anthropocentrism and exclusive humanism. A neo-materialist affirmative ethics for posthuman subjects is proposed as the alternative, in order to deal with the challenges of our times.