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The Image of Humanity in Post-Anthropocentric Utopian Thought | Lecture by Anna Bugajska

The Faculty of Humanities' Department of Art Theory and Practice cordially invites you to a lecture by Anna Bugajska "The Image of Humanity in Post-Anthropocentric Utopian Thought".

Tuesday April 14th, 17:30 - 18:50, Aula Jana Sokola.

Lecture abstract:

All traditional utopias are inhabited by humans: they are mostly human-made and human-centric, thus seemingly favoring the Anthropocene. In post-anthropocentric utopian thought, however, the human is no longer the measure of meaning. Boundaries between human, animal, machine, and environment become porous, and the notion of human nature either dissolves or evolves toward an extended notion of the self. The talk will consider the challenges of building viable utopianism without human or with redefined humans no longer constituting the center of the utopian system. It will repose on the publications of Claire Colebrook, Gregory Claeys, Vincent Geoghegan, David Roden and Chantal Delsol, among others.

Dr. Anna Bugajska

Associate Professor and the Head of the Language and Culture Studies Department at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Cracow, with her research affiliated to the General and Applied Ethics Department at the same university. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (the Faculty of Philology), and her postdoctoral degree (habilitacja) at the University of Silesia, Katowice (the Faculty of Humanities). Currently, she gives classes on biopolitics and ethics, as well as utopian studies. She gave talks and classes at many European universities (e.g., Oxford University, Cambridge University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). She is a member of Utopian Studies Society-Europe, and a HEST group Humanization in Health, and cooperates with a number of organizations and centers on the topics related to new technologies (e.g., Centre for Axiology of New Technologies and Social Change, Future Law Lab). She specializes in interdisciplinary study of biotechnological utopias and dystopias.

Dr. Anna Bugajska