“Post-Human Genealogy” seminar led by Boris Groys

“Post-Human Genealogy” seminar led by Boris Groys

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Boris Groys, HKW, Berlin, 2017.

August 14, 2024
“Post-Human Genealogy” seminar led by Boris Groys

Application deadline: August 28, 2024
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e-flux is pleased to announce a new seminar led by Boris Groys. “Post-Human Genealogy” is co-produced by e-flux and the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. The six-month course will be conducted in English and will meet virtually twice monthly, on Wednesdays from October 2024 to March 2025, at 10am New York / 11am Rio.

Departing from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit where human subjectivity is posed no longer as Cartesian doubt but absolute knowledge, “Post-Human Genealogy” investigates how the conception of the human has been questioned throughout our time. As the Hegelian Spirit becomes a post-structuralist specter at the end of history, this course aims to address the roles of technology, animality, and nature in the manufacturing of humanism, and its surpassing. The course aims to survey how to think with and after humanity, through discussions of thinkers from Kojève and Heidegger to Derrida alongside the most pertinent questions of contemporaneity, from artificial intelligence to ecological crisis.

Those wishing to attend the seminar should apply by sending a one-paragraph statement of interest to school [​at​] e-flux.com by August 28. Selected applicants will be notified around late September. All participants will receive a certificate from the Federal University’s Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. The seminar is free of charge, and there will be no written assignments or exams, though engaged participation in discussion is highly desired.

Boris Groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally renowned expert on Soviet-era art and literature, especially the Russian avant-garde. His scholarship focuses on art and aesthetics as a means of thinking through politics and philosophy. The author of numerous books and essays, he was Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University and Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

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