Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper purports to present some characteristics of the posthuman perspective and relate them to contemporary understanding of applied linguistics and literacy studies with preliminary activities in this direction and interrogations for future studies. As interdisciplinary studies, posthumanism draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of assemblage (2005) and has been gaining relevance according to theorists such as Barad (2007), Bennet (2010), Braidotti (2018) and Pennycook (2018), among others. One of their concerns is the future of language research, teaching, learning and enacting in philosophical, transcultural and educational ways. Barad (2007) and Bennet (2010)) use the terms humans and nonhumans while Braidotti (2018) and Pennycook (2018) write humans and non-humans. At times, Bennet (2010) prefers human-nonhuman(s) to emphasize the idea of assemblage. They consider such agents in vibrant interconnected assembles within a broader range of semiotic, spatial and ethical complexities in the emergence of posthuman humanism as Braidotti (2018) argues. This calls for applied linguistics and literacy studies willing to recognize that they themselves are products of such entanglements for which a revision of ontologies influencing epistemologies and methodologies might be productive.
Highlights
Beyond pleasure and pain, life is a process of becoming, of stretching the boundaries of endurance. (BRAIDOTTI, 2018)The world is an ongoing open process of mattering through which “mattering” itself acquires meaning and form in the realization of different agential possibilities
The changing topologies of the world entail an ongoing reworking of the very nature of dynamics (BARAD, 2003, p. 18)
The agential possibilities refer to the vibrant relationality in humans and non-humans (BRAIDOTTI, 2018) and humans and nonhumans1 (BARAD, 2003) forces, which challenge the assumptions and cultural model of European humanism
Summary
Life is a process of becoming, of stretching the boundaries of endurance. (BRAIDOTTI, 2018). In this epigraph, the agential possibilities refer to the vibrant relationality in humans and non-humans (BRAIDOTTI, 2018) and humans and nonhumans (BARAD, 2003) forces, which challenge the assumptions and cultural model of European humanism. 20), since it distributes the power among such elements and provides “diffractions” − instead of reflections − with richer notions of engagement of subject-object, nature-culture With this outline, we present characteristics of posthuman subjectivity exposing ecological, technological and ethical issues, a contemporary understanding of posthuman applied linguistics and literacy studies, preliminary activities in this direction and interrogations as thought provoking contributions. We do not celebrate poshumanism as a universal salvationist discourse, though
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