Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology

The conceptualization of the notion of subjectivity within the Anthropocene finds in Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism one of its most explicit and profuse modulations. This essay argues that Braidotti’s model powerfully accounts for the Anthropocene’s subjectivity by conceiving the “self” as a transver...

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Autor principal:	Vivaldi Jordi
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	subjectivity anthropocene posthumanism object-oriented ontology graham harman rosi braidotti non-onto-taxonomical pluralism neo-spinozistic monism ecology xenia xenos Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f70f505d261c4228bbe6121c05ae5f372021-12-05T14:11:01ZXenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology2543-887510.1515/opphil-2020-0187https://doaj.org/article/f70f505d261c4228bbe6121c05ae5f372021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0187https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8875The conceptualization of the notion of subjectivity within the Anthropocene finds in Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism one of its most explicit and profuse modulations. This essay argues that Braidotti’s model powerfully accounts for the Anthropocene’s subjectivity by conceiving the “self” as a transversal multiplicity and its relationality to the “others” and the “world” as non-hierarchized by nature–culture distinctions; however, by being ontologically grounded on a neo-Spinozistic monism, Braidotti’s model blurs the notions of finitude, agency, and change, obscuring the possibility of critical dissent while decreasing the overall theory’s consistency. An alternative ontological model capitalizing on these elements can be found in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its notion of withdrawal. By associating OOO’s non-onto-taxonomical pluralism with Braidotti’s posthuman subjectivity, this essay aims at ontologically discretizing the latter in order to overcome these limitations. Grounded on this association and invoking a narrative imaginary propelled by the Greek terms xenos (guest-friend) and xenia (hospitality), the article paves the way for a form of subjectivity deviating from Braidotti’s ecological model and defined as xenological, arguing that, within the context of the Anthropocene, it constitutes an adequate alternative to Braidotti’s subjectivity.Vivaldi JordiDe Gruyterarticlesubjectivityanthropoceneposthumanismobject-oriented ontologygraham harmanrosi braidottinon-onto-taxonomical pluralismneo-spinozistic monismecologyxeniaxenosPhilosophy (General)B1-5802ENOpen Philosophy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 311-334 (2021)
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topic	subjectivity anthropocene posthumanism object-oriented ontology graham harman rosi braidotti non-onto-taxonomical pluralism neo-spinozistic monism ecology xenia xenos Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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description	The conceptualization of the notion of subjectivity within the Anthropocene finds in Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism one of its most explicit and profuse modulations. This essay argues that Braidotti’s model powerfully accounts for the Anthropocene’s subjectivity by conceiving the “self” as a transversal multiplicity and its relationality to the “others” and the “world” as non-hierarchized by nature–culture distinctions; however, by being ontologically grounded on a neo-Spinozistic monism, Braidotti’s model blurs the notions of finitude, agency, and change, obscuring the possibility of critical dissent while decreasing the overall theory’s consistency. An alternative ontological model capitalizing on these elements can be found in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its notion of withdrawal. By associating OOO’s non-onto-taxonomical pluralism with Braidotti’s posthuman subjectivity, this essay aims at ontologically discretizing the latter in order to overcome these limitations. Grounded on this association and invoking a narrative imaginary propelled by the Greek terms xenos (guest-friend) and xenia (hospitality), the article paves the way for a form of subjectivity deviating from Braidotti’s ecological model and defined as xenological, arguing that, within the context of the Anthropocene, it constitutes an adequate alternative to Braidotti’s subjectivity.
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title	Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology
title_short	Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology
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Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object-Oriented Ontology

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