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Accountabilities of posthuman research

Terrie Lynn Thompson, Catherine Adams

2020Explorations in Media Ecology17 citationsDOI

Abstract

Abstract What constitutes ‘good’ posthuman research? This article offers three dynamics to help assess the value of posthuman-inspired inquiry. We propose that a good posthuman research account should show evidence that the researcher: (1) attended to their own more-than-humanness and made explicit how they interviewed and attuned to the nonhuman things of their inquiry; (2) reassembled resemblings of the posthuman world by inventively weaving and fusing human and nonhuman storylines; and (3) offered analytic insights into the liveliness of posthuman research work as the performativity of difference.

Topics & Concepts

PosthumanPerformativityPosthumanismSociologyValue (mathematics)EpistemologyAestheticsArtPhilosophyGender studiesComputer scienceMachine learningInnovative Human-Technology InteractionPosthumanist Ethics and ActivismGeographies of human-animal interactions