The posthumanist tabula rasa

Abstract

This article offers an examination of posthumanist epistemology. Building on wider claims that `posthumanist' theorists risk disavowing the historicity of their concepts, the article asks why the posthumanist image of the researcher has proven attractive to humanities and social sciences scholarship in recent years. In examining this question the article suggests that posthumanist epistemology is premised upon a claim to the innocence of knowledge, a notion that the article traces back to the origins of modern philosophy in the work of John Locke and his view of the mind as a blank slate. Such an analysis will serve to underline the argument that claims to innocence are themselves strategically deployed epistemic tools that have political implications.

Risking erasure? Posthumanist research practices and figurations of (the) child

“…We provoked our authors to consider the idea of a 'flat ontology' -i.e. "the human researcher [a]s not privileged over the nonhuman air" (Banerjee & Blaise, 2013) and invited them to consider whether (and in what ways) the inclusion of the nonhuman as a discrete and separate agential entity depoliticises the human subject (Petersen, 2013, Kipnis, 2015Rekert, 2016Rekert, , 2018 in childhood research. Increasingly postqualitative researchers are drawing on and are inspired by the ontological 'unlearning' that posthumanism requires.…”

“…The contributions to this special issue affirmatively and eventfully engage in critical scholarship that works to extend complex figurations of (the) posthuman child in contemporary research by calling into question what agency is, what it means and what it does. We provoked our authors to consider the idea of a 'flat ontology'that is, 'the human researcher [a]s not privileged over the nonhuman air' (Banerjee & Blaise, 2013: 17) and invited them to consider whether (and in what ways) the inclusion of the non-human as a discrete and separate agential entity depoliticises the human subject (Kipnis, 2015;Petersen, 2018;Rekert, 2016Rekert, , 2018 in childhood research. Increasingly, post-qualitative researchers are drawing on and inspired by the ontological 'unlearning' that posthumanism requires.…”

Peran Orang Tua Dalam Pendidikan Moral Anak Katolik Pada Era Pandemi Covid-19 di Kota Malang

“…Dalam teori tabularasa, anak-anak yang lahir seperti kertas putih yang masih kosong belum ditulis apa-apa. Orang-orang sekitar yang kemudian mengisi tulisan di kertas kosong tersebut (Rekret, 2018).…”