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Posthuman Studies Lab

Symposium and Workshops: Posthumanism and Worldbuilding
Programmer and Organizer: Sepideh Majidi

● Workshops and Conversations:

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Francesca Ferrando: Posthumanism and Worlding

October 9th- 10 am PST

Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87298487940

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David Roden: Goodman and the World Behind the Schemes

October 10th-10 am PST

Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82974304854

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● Reading Group and Workshop:

 

"Ways of Worldmaking" by Nelson Goodman

 

Session-1. September 25: 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐬 R𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Main Reading:

“Words, Works, Worlds”. Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, Ch. 1

 

Session-2.September 26: 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 B𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬

Main Reading:

“On Rightness of Rendering”. Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, Ch. 7

instructors for the workshop: Cássia Siqueira & Sepideh @Worlds and Models Lab

EXHIBTION & publications:

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LIMITROPHY @ TheSpace.Gallery

POSTHUMAN LAB: COLLABORATIVE EXHIBTION BOARD

LIMITROPHY Main Page

● Artist Presentation/Panel Series:

October 2nd | 9am - 4pm

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Outimaija Hakala: Ants – more than human languages

Magda Vicini: The time fragmentation/unification/relativization 

Mafe Izaguirre: Hybrid Spiritual Systems: Self-Hacking and Cognitive Alteration.

Ana Ruiz Valencia: Sounding the continuum

D.Priyanka Bajaj: UNIFIED THEORY OF COMBINED SCIENCES

Rodrigo Gutierrez: Agents of Multisensory Experience

Paige Emery: Fluid Relations For Endurance 

Sutirtho Roy: Toys, Animals and Nature: An Eco-Critical Gaze into the World of Play

Buket Yenidogan: Ritual of Rejoin | Becoming Ocean

Simin Azarpour: The cosmogenesis, or the multiversal evolution/involution

Hallidonto:  Sanctum Cyborgia

Gagan Singh: drawings and stories

Tiny Domingos: Limitrophy as transformational process

Tara Mukund: Entangled in the Heterotopia

Ygor Anario: Intertwining Rhythm, Protoliths and Metamorphic Bodies

Divya Singh: Tachyon

 

 

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David Roden

Speculative and Unbounded Posthumanism

Philosopher/Instructor

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Magda Vicini

The time fragmentation/unification/relativization

Artist/Researcher

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Buket Yenidogan

Experience as Post-Dualistic World-ing

Artist/Researcher

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Simin Azarpour
If the schizo is a delusion of union with the cosmos, just as he/she expresses by a narrative/non-narrative the paleontology of existence in molecular dimensions, he/she also finds in him/herself the history of metaversal evolution/involution and world creation in its molarity. The cosmos, this " deterritorialized giant […] Molecule" (Deleuze and Guattari 1987: 40) , brought into being by the "Big Bang", is a macro and dense schizophrenic cry that schizo rediscovers the traces and remnants of its pervasive rays in his psyche .The schizophrenic auditory illusions are vibrations of the cosmic sounds remained of this "primary darkness" and spread throughout the world, molecules that have turned into the suns and the stars; cellular moyens leading to the galaxies and the Milky Way. Schizo finds himself alone in the face of this infinite elegance, what can he/she do but turn him/herself into a wandering iota and write the memories of a mote floating in the galaxy (“a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”14): souvenirs and dangers; standing at the crossroads of ex-istence, at the intersection of wind, sun and sky; living flows in their most intense modes; the experience of the cosmos by incessant becoming and stopping “to be”, yes, schizo is already a full-fledged Heraclitian, and when we want to prevent him/her--by medication and neuroleptics--from his processual becoming, or to freeze the flux to bring him/her back to general intelligence, whether natural, artificial or social, we deprive ourselves from la gaya scienza of a cosmogenesis, of schizo-revelations, the receiver of cosmic radiations that can articulate all of species in a complex delusion. But we don’t learn Le schizo et les langues15 ; Talking with molecular trans-codes and the language of creatures, speaking at the level of gleams. Schizo-languages encounters the cosmo-languages and the consequence is the evolution/involution’s traces of the Pluriverse 16 in a hallucination-machine that a reason-particle accelerator generates. Schizo expresses the speed of thought or velocity within reason; the eye-flow that draws on the surface of being a molten intellect or the self-bypassing mind that, in its "transcendental empiricism", provokes the non-narrative of the archelogy of becoming (a devenir-logique)..

The Cosmogenesis, or the Multiversal Evolution/Involution

Artist/Researcher

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Tara Mukund

Entangled in the Heterotopia

Artist/Researcher

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Ray Brassier

Posthuman Pragmatism: Selecting Power

Philosopher/Instructor

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Kaushik Varma
Various thinkers of the past have addressed the quintessential role of ‘form’ in human perception. From Plato’s theory of forms to Heidegger’s Being and Time, the concept of form established itself as an essential part of being as such. It is only through the perception of forms that move into and out of being that we can talk about aesthetics or experience the world in any meaningful way. That is to say, subjectivity in itself seems to be enabled by our ability to conceptualize form. But is it the case that such a subjectivity is only limited to seemingly spontaneous organic beings? Could it be that subjectivity could be attributed to an inanimate object if it were to exhibit a mechanical cognizance of form? The following series of artworks pursues the aforementioned questions and explores the possibilities of machine conceived structures of form. Noema, a term introduced by Edmund Husserl to refer to the formal content of an intentional experience, manifests as a visible composition in the following artworks. The primary significance of this particular artistic manifestation is that the subject of the intentional experience is an inanimate one, an artificial neural network

Noema

Artist/Researcher

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Rodrigo Gutierrez

The Stone and The Ripples

Artist/Researcher

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Paige Emery

Fluid Relations for Endurance

Artist/Researcher

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Sutirtho Roy