Critical heritage and the posthumanities: problems and prospects
Critical heritage and the posthumanities: problems and prospects
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批判遗产与后人文学科：问题与前景
DOI：
10.1080/13527258.2020.1715464
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
C. Sterling
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作者：
C. Sterling
摘要本文概述了遗产领域的后人文主义本体的主要优点和缺点。本文没有完全接受或拒绝后人文主义，而是考虑了这一框架的变革潜力和关键局限性。这里有两个核心主题：第一个将后人文主义定位为人文主义之后的东西，而第二个则将人类完全脱离了中心。虽然前者对批判遗产的意义相对容易确立，但后者的含义则更加不透明。基于土著学者和环境哲学家提出的批评，本文承认任何后人类政治计划的缺点。为了超越这一点，本文结合了女权主义哲学家罗西·布雷多蒂（Rosi Braidotti）和政治理论家威廉·e·康诺利（William E. Connolly）的作品，他们为遗产与后人类主义思想的接触提供了一套具体的议程。这篇文章最后讨论了“行星管理”——一个由地球系统科学家和其他人提出的概念，它要求对人类和非人类世界的关怀、治理和责任进行新的反思。批判性遗产实践和批判性后人类主义思想的战略联盟，可能会为气候危机的一些技术官僚解决方案提供有价值的对应。
ABSTRACT This paper outlines the main benefits and drawbacks of a posthumanist ontology for the heritage field. Instead of embracing or rejecting posthumanism outright, the paper considers the transformative potential and key limitations of this framework. Two core themes are picked up on here: the first positions posthumanism as that which comes after humanism, while the second decentres the human altogether. While the significance of the former to critical heritage is relatively easy to establish, the implications of the latter are more opaque. Building on critiques put forward by Indigenous scholars and environmental philosophers, the paper acknowledges the shortcomings of any posthuman political project. To look beyond this, the paper engages with the work of feminist philosopher Rosi Braidotti and political theorist William E. Connolly, who offer a concrete set of agendas for heritage to engage with posthumanist thinking. The essay concludes with a discussion of ‘planetary stewardship’ – a concept put forward by Earth Systems scientists and others that demands novel reflections on care, governance and responsibility across human and non-human worlds. A strategic alliance of critical heritage praxis and critical posthumanist thinking may provide a valuable counterpoint to some of the more technocratic solutions imagined for the climate crisis.