Afternoon seminar with Jamie Mcphie: Can life be articulated in all things or are all things articulated in life?

Afternoon seminar with Jamie Mcphie: Can life be articulated in all things or are all things articulated in life?  

Thinking with Deleuze and Guattari, animism, new materialisms, and process relational eco-philosophies, we can begin to unpack the notion that all things can be articulated in life. This, in order to navigate the Cartesian traps that lie in wait, often camouflaged in plain sight: Organic- inorganic, Nature-Culture, Mind-Body, to name a few. Steering clear of Linnaeus’s taxonomical hierarchies, Sagan’s carbon chauvinism, Plato’s carving nature at its joints, Descartes ghosts in their machines, what might it ‘do’ to extend legal rights to non-human persons? Where do we draw our lines? If forests can think, as Kohn suggests, then why not cities? In this seminar, we will explore (Post)Human Eco jurisprudence, Environ(mental) Personhood and Rights of (Post)Nature in order to seek social and environmental equity in a time of mass extinction, climate catastrophe and the rise of the far right…again. There will be plenty of time to explore these concepts together for the final part of the seminar, in order to unpack the pedagogical implications of thinking relationally, pluralistically, and immanently, post-nature.

January 31, 2025
13.00-15.30

Location: OD SUN IOB Meetingroom 2 (Ø12-110d-1)