Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, LILAe

Kalendarium

Biological discoveries about the complexity of species formation and endosymbiosis, along with charges of “speciesism” and its structural alliances with racism, have made it difficult to talk about species at all. Despite these objections, this talk will argue that there is value in thinking about species from a revised viewpoint that includes species-in-common (for example, humans), species-in-biosymbiosis (humans and gut bacteria, for instance) and species-in-cybersymbiosis (for example, cognitive assemblages between humans and computational media). The talk will discuss limitations in Erich Hoerl’s recent efforts to forge a “general ecology” centered on computational mediation and will offer an alternative framework based on cognitive assemblages.