This lecture by Rosi Braidotti, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the School of Law at Birkbeck, concentrates on the question of how the convergence of information and bio-technologies results in a global form of post-humanism, which alters the relationship between nature and culture. The traditional unitary subject position becomes dispersed under the pressures of the new power relations. This calls for a new form of ethical and political accountability that takes ‘Life’ as the subject of enquiry. This ethics is presented as a reconfiguration of our being in a globally mediated world that avoids relativism and provides re-grounding for an affirmative politics.

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her latest book is Transpositions: on Nomadic Ethics, (Polity Press, 2006). She has also published Metamorphoses, (Polity Press, 2002); Nomadic Subjects (Columbia University Press, 1994) and many articles on poststructuralist philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, gender and feminist theory.

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