(Un)fixing our position
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posted on 2024-06-02, 23:36 authored by Jana Norman(Un)fixing our position
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Background Australian philosopher Val Plumwood, writing in 1993 about the negative impact of western ontological dualism on nonhuman and human “Others”, lamented that western culture lacked a story powerful enough to shift the culture out of a worldview that justifies exploiting nature and oppressing people based on race, gender, class and other culturally-specified differences. My book Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene (Routledge 2021), and this NTRO arising from it, outline a story emerging from Deep History and new materialism that has the potential to inspire this shift. Contribution In the performance piece, (Un)fixing our position: Onto-ethical celestial navigation in the Anthropocene (a 10-point guide), presented at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice symposium, Provocations 3: The end of the world has already happened and published in the Sydney Review of Books, I translate Deep History into a human origin story grounded in science, that reaches for the stars: what does it mean to be made of stardust? What does it mean to be made of stardust, just like everything else? The contribution of this piece is to make highly theoretical research about the nature of being human in a more-than-human world accessible to general audience Significance The article is a transcription of a performance piece chosen for the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice symposium, Provocations 3: The end of the world has already happened. The performance was selected for transcription and publication by the editor of the Sydney Review of Books. The SRB is ‘one of Australia’s most respected and ambitious online literary journals’ (Copyright Agency, 2021). The article/performance has been cited and included in two conference presentations: Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia and the Nature Feelz: Perspectives and reflections on ecological emotions symposium at Sydney University.Publication classification
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