POSTHUMAN ANTIQUITIES

November 14-15, 2014
Hemmerdinger Hall, The Silver Center for Arts & Science
New York University

What can an inquiry into antiquity offer posthumanist thinking on the
body, on nature and its relationship with technology, and on the
fundamental interrelatedness of the physical, the biological, the
psychical, the social and the artifactual?

Greek and Roman literary, philosophical, and medical texts are
resplendent with sites in which ‘materiality’ and ‘embodiment’ (in
current parlance) erupt into a field of questioning, deliberation,
care, and experimentation. A return to antiquity is particularly
pertinent in the wake of the philosophical demise of the sovereignty
of the modern individual human subject and the rise not only of
discourses such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and feminism, but
also recent turns to chaos theory, complexity theory, vitalism, affect
theory, environmental philosophy, and animal studies. As with these
contemporary discourses, classical thinking displaces and complicates
the modern notion of subjectivity, and finds movement and life
inherently at work in both organic and inorganic phenomena.

This international conference seeks to foster conversation and
cross-pollination between these vastly different periods positioned,
as they both are, as transitional zones. We propose that through an
encounter with “the Greeks,” we can not only re-imagine the
trajectories and potentialities of contemporary posthumanist
theorizing, but also interrogate narratives of origin, legacy, and
linear temporality.

*Keynote Speakers*: Claudia Baracchi (Milan) and Adriana Cavarero
(Verona)

*Speakers*: Emanuela Bianchi (NYU), Sara Brill (Fairfield), Rebecca
Hill (RMIT), Brooke Holmes (Princeton), Miriam Leonard (UCL), Michael
Naas (DePaul), Ramona Naddaf (Berkeley), Mark Payne (Chicago), John
Protevi (Louisiana State), Kristin Sampson (Bergen), Giulia Sissa (UCLA)

Organized by Emanuela Bianchi (NYU), Sara Brill (Fairfield), and
Brooke Holmes (Princeton).
For more information, see http://posthumanantiquities.wordpress.com

-- 
  Emanuela Bianchi

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