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This Deleuzian Century -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Deleuze's Philosophy and the Art of Life Or: What does Pussy Riot Know? -- Fashioning the Fold: Multiple Becomings -- Sensibility is Ground Zero: On Inclusive Disjunction and Politics of Defatalization -- Populism and Grandeur: From Marx to Arafat -- The Healing Practices of Language: Artaud and Deleuze on Flesh, Mind and Expression -- Humile Art: Enhancing the Body's Powers to Act - or Bringing Art (back) Down to Earth -- Materiality of Affect: How Art can Reveal the more Subtle Realities of an Encounter -- The Revelation of a World that was Always Already There: The Creative Act as an Occupation -- The Ethico-Aesthetics of the Figure -- Thinking 'a Life': Nomadism as a Challenge for (Post-)Genomics -- Mesopolitical Interests: Rotterdam Skillcity as Rhizomatic, Ecosophical, Reflactive Event -- Contributors

1. Postmodernism / Simon Malpas -- 2. German philosophy after 1980 : themes out of school / Dieter Thoma -- 3. The structuralist legacy / Patrice Maniglier -- 4. Italian philosophy between 1980 an 1995 / Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder -- 5. Continental philosophy in the Czech Republic / Josef Fulka, Jr. -- 6. Third generation critical theory : Benhabib, Fraser, and Honneth / Amy Allen -- 7. French and Italian Spinozism / Simon Duffy -- 8. Radical democracy / Lasse Thomassen -- 9. Cultural and postcolonial studies / Iain Chambers -- 10. The "ethical turn" in continental philosophy in the 1980s / Rober Eaglestone -- 11. Feminist philosophy : coming of age / Rosi Braidotti -- 12. Continental philosophy of religion / Bruce Ellis Benson -- 13. The performative turn and the emergence of post-analytic philosophy / José Medina -- 14. Out of bounds : philosophy in an age of transition / Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti.

Genetik und künstliche Befruchtung, Robotik, Implantate und Computertechnologie haben nicht nur in der Science-Fiction Cyborgs, Zombies und Klone hervorgebracht. Auch in der Philosophie und in den Humanwissenschaften hat sich seit einigen Jahren eine lebendige Diskussion über die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten des Menschen angesichts moderner Technologien entwickelt. Rosi Braidotti unternimmt eine faszinierende Tour de Force vom Humanismus zum Zeitalter des Posthumanismus, in das technologischer Fortschritt und Kapitalismus uns katapultiert haben: Der humanistische Mensch - männlich, weiß, rational

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the 1980s, mainstream feminist circles seem to have turned their back on the staple notions of poststructuralist philosophy. Metamorphoses takes stock of the situation and attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist feminist agenda.Cross-referring in a creative way to Deleuze's and Irigaray's respective philo

Transposing differences -- Meta(l)morphoses: women, aliens, and machines -- Animals and other anomalies -- The cosmic buzz of insects -- Matter-realist feminism -- Intensive genre and the demise of gender -- Postsecular paradoxes -- Against methodological nationalism -- Nomadic European citizenship -- Powers of affirmation -- Sustainable ethics and the body in pain -- Forensic futures -- A secular prayer

AbstractThis is the text of the valedictory lecture that Rosi Braidotti delivered in June 2022, to mark the retirement from her academic position at Utrecht University. It was conceived as a spoken text and written within the rhetorical tradition of valedictory speeches. The text traces the different phases of Braidotti's career in terms of institutional practice and theoretical developments over the last 40 years. Combining academic analysis with deep ethical passion, Braidotti argues for the need of combining critique with creativity, and radicalism with excellence, to highlight the relevance of the new humanities for our troubled world. Ending on a high note of affirmative ethics, Braidotti calls for a more inclusive, diverse and critical practice of the humanities, as a living experiment of what we are capable of becoming.

There has never been a more urgent time to engage with the Environmental Humanities and the other Posthumanities. This engagement is creative as well as critical and it touches upon some fundamental issues within what I have called the posthuman convergence. That is the intersection of two concurrent but contradictory phenomena: the unprecedented technological developments that have also become known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the acceleration of the climate change emergency, also known as the Sixth Extinction. This complex intersection of events triggers multiple fractures, ethical dilemmas, affective perturbations, political concerns, and critical lines of inquiry. I have summarized them as the convergent critiques of Humanism on the one hand and the rejection of anthropocentrism on the other. This is neither a simple nor a harmonious intersection of critical lines, but rather an encounter fraught with painful contradictions and challenging problems.