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Posthuman anthropology

This short course will familiarise you with readings related to posthumanities and recent advances in anthropology and equip you with the capacity to evaluate recent debates in this new field.

When it's run
1 March - 5 April 2021

Mode of delivery
Online

Duration
5 weeks

A$199 (inc GST)

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Who should attend?

Honours and postgraduate students in Anthropology, the theoretical humanities, and the environmental humanities.


Course content

  • Nature/culture and multinaturalism (Latour, Descola, Vivieros de Castro)
  • Multispecies ethnography and animalities (Kirksey, Wolfe, Haraway, Despret, Rose)
  • Ontological pluralism (Latour; Vivieros de Castro, Tsing)
  • Cyborgs and AI (Haraway, Bell)
  • Fabulations and Fictocritical Writing (Taussig, Stewart)

Learning outcomes

The course has two main aims:

  1. To familiarise students with readings related to posthumanities and recent advances in anthropology

  2. To equip students with the capacity to evaluate recent debates in this new field

Assessment

  1. Two online quizzes held in week 2 and week 4 of the course (60%; 30% each quiz)

  2. Successful participation in online group discussion

  3. A short text, blog, podcast or artwork

Professional Certificate in Creativity or Professional Practice

Mix and match any four courses of your choice and gain a Professional Certificate in Creativity or Professional Practice.


Facilitator

Stephen Muecke is a senior scholar in the Humanities. Recent books are Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia, co-authored with Paddy Roe, Rowman and Littlefield International 2020.

He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität, Berlin and at Paris XIII. He also works on fictocritical writing, cultutal theory and has published a special edition of New Literary History (“Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour”), 2016. He has a long record of work with Indigenous people (a new edition of Paddy Roe’s Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley appeared with UWA Publishing, 2016), and current research involves ethnographic documentation of Goolarabooloo county north of Broome, Western Australia, using a ‘multirealist’ approach.

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  • In the event that a course is cancelled or postponed for any reason by Flinders University a full refund will be available to all students.
  • In the event a participant cancels their participation in the course 14 calendar days before the commencement of teaching a full refund will be available.
  • In the event a participant cancels their participation in the course between 14 to 1 calendar day before the commence of teaching a 50% refund will be available.
  • In the event a participant cancels their participation on, or after, the day teaching commences all course fees will be forfeited.

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