Symposium and Workshop: Posthumanism and Worldbuilding
Updated: Oct 10, 2021
FOREIGN OBJEKT POSTHUMAN LAB PRESENTS:
https://www.foreignobjekt.com/posthuman-lab
This symposium is part of Foreign Objekt's Psthuman Lab, which began last year. The Lab includes workshops and study groups taught by David Roden, Francesca Ferrando, and Ray Brassier, along with participation and contributions from many artists and researchers.
Events:
โ Workshops and Conversations:
โ David Roden
October 10th-- 10 am PST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84400560424
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The philosopher Nelson Goodman makes two controversial philosophical claims. Firstly, Pluriworldism: There is not one true world but many worlds, each answering to different and often conflicting โworld versionsโ (e.g., Newtonโs vs Aristotleโs Physics, Phenomenalism (or sense-data theory) vs Realism about middle sized objects of sensory experience, Cezanne vs the World of 19th Century Academic Painting.) Different world versions are true of different worlds, but there is no one shared world according to Pluriworldism. Secondly, Worldmaking: the claim that these worlds are constituted, in some way, by our world-making practices. In this talk, I have two goals. Firstly, to set out both the Pluriworldism and the Worldmaking thesis clearly and systematically. Second to consider whether either is supportable by examining a range of objections leveled against Goodman by authors ranging from Donald Davison to Tim Button. Does the very idea of worldmaking presuppose a world-behind-the-scenes that belongs to no world? Does the production of worlds (world making) presuppose a kind of identity or repetition that is non-world dependent in a way that violates pluriworldism, as I have argued. Can we make sense of comparisons or translations between worlds and world versions without a single common world as a background condition? Is pluriworldism vulnerable to anti-correlationist arguments in the work of speculative realists like Ray Brassier or Quentin Meillassoux? I hope this critical engagement will increase our understanding of Goodmanโs epistemology and aesthetics.
โ Francesca Ferrando
October 9th -- 10 am PST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87298487940
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In the first series of workshops Francesca Ferrando discussed with us, 'The Art of Posthuman Existence', consisting of "The Composite Landscape of the Posthuman", "From the Anthropocene to Human Enhancement", and "Posthuman Healing".