Posthumanism Today: Slavic Politics and Aesthetics of Questioning the Anthropocene

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The Anthropocene, or the Age of Man, has produced the brutality of war and colonialization, ecological disasters, mechanized genocide and wanton extinction of entire species, as well as countless planetary anthropogenic changes that make improbable the survival of its own. This panel experiments with decolonizing the human mind by seeking liberating perspectives outside of the human species – from senseless war in Ukraine to the destruction of the Aral Sea, Slavic is long overdue for its own posthumanist intervention. This panel brings together materials of visual culture, cinema and literature to provide a space where the posthuman individual thrives by taking it as axiomatic to practice the radical inclusion of all species and peoples as equally vital to the healthy functioning of a planetary society.

Sub Unit

• Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts

Chair

• Maria Natalyuk, U of Pittsburgh

Papers

• Becoming Laika: Victor Pelevin's Plan for Omon Ra - Anna Tropnikova, Yale U

• Clash of Representations: Posthuman versus Monster in Ivan I. Tverdovsky's 'Zoology' - Mikhail Itkin, U of Pittsburgh

• Non-Human Acoustemology in Recent Sakha Cinema - Evgeniia Eva Ivanilova, U of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• Colleen McQuillen, U of Southern California