Generic humanity: interspecies technologies, climate change & non-standard animism Introduction: Anthropomorphism is not human enough

Bogna Konior
2017 Transformations issue   unpublished
How could we reconcile these two ethical and political projects: on the one hand, a desire to seek a politics beyond the existing history of humanism, on the other, a precaution to not fall in line with the violent history that dehumanisation had already amassed? In the Anthropocene, art is often charged with the task of "fictionalising" nature beyond the known and the human; yet in this paper, I propose that it could also produce a science-fiction or a philo-fiction of humanity itself. Looking
more » ... at various examples of Natalie Jeremijenko's work, I argue that she approximates a politics that does not yet exist: a practice of "generic humanity" in times of interspecies environmental vulnerability. Theorising her work at the intersection of animism and non-philosophy, I label it a non-standard animism, a modelling of governance through non-standard personalisation, which provides cross-species, biometric tools.
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