Rosi Braidotti: Nomadic Feminist Theory in a Global Era

The lecture of Rosi Braidotti will address the so-called ’post-human’ turn in contemporary feminist theory in the light of three main considerations: firstly the shifting perception and understanding of ‘the human’ in the Life sciences. Secondly the effects of globalization as a system that functions by instilling process of ‘timeless time’ and perverse, multiple time-lines. Thirdly, the impact of wars and conflicts in contemporary governmentality and the new forms of discrimination they engender on a planetary scale. Last but not least the paper examines the implications of this historical context for progressive, affirmative politics in general and gender issues in particular. Rosi Braidotti is University Professor in the Humanities at Utrecht University and the founding Director of its Centre for Humanities. Books: Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge, 2006; Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. Cambridge, 2002; Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. New York, 1994 and 2011.