How to Think with Dogs, Mushrooms and Other Creatures? Posthumanism in Relation to Ecological Crisis

Magdalena Dąbrowska

Abstract


According to Timothy Morton, ecological crisis is associated with crisis of thinking. The article attempts to examine new modes of thinking that are inspired by posthumanism and relationships with non- human animals. Posthumanism criticizes human claims for being privileged epistemic and ethical subject and offers new possibilities of thinking about world and multispecies relationships. Research by Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing offer valuable metaphors and models for non-anthropocentric thinking. Haraway, inspired by her personal relationships with dogs, proposes post-humanist ethics of human- animal relationships. Tsing, researching frictions and global connections around matsutake mushrooms claims that all relationships are multispecies relationships.

 


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posthumanism; posthumanist ethics; human-animal relationships; multispecies ethnography; ecology

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2017.22.177
Date of publication: 2018-01-26 00:00:00
Date of submission: 2018-01-07 13:09:57


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