Eligibility, Audience, Materials

Eligibility & Audience

Focus

The focus of the course is to cultivate a relaxed, joyful and inclusive learning environment—one that encourages inspiration without pressure. Rather than emphasizing competition or stress, the course supports exploration, creativity, and authentic engagement. Participants are invited to learn at their own pace, in a space that values presence, mutual respect, and a shared sense of wonder.

Participants

This course is designed for a select and limited group of participants, ensuring an intimate and focused learning environment. Eligible applicants—both within and beyond traditional academic settings—include a diverse range of students, PhD candidates, scholars, professors, artists, performers, scientists, coders, entrepreneurs, activists, spiritual seekers and independent researchers, among others, all of whom have at least a foundational familiarity with posthumanist theory.

Project

Applicants are expected to develop a posthuman-oriented project in the broadest sense—expressed through an academic article or chapter, creative work, installation, social or ecological initiative, website, algorithm, body-based practice and / or other suitable forms of inquiry. The core requirement is that the project must include a practical dimension, for which the course will offer substantial and meaningful support. You will be asked to describe your project proposal, along with your personal information and a short bionote, in the application form.

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Required Material

Once accepted, participants are asked to complete the following requirements by September 27th in preparation for the Course:

Watch full online Course “The Posthuman”

The course includes 6 video lessons, each approximately 10 minutes long.

Participants are encouraged to take the free test provided as part of the course materials. There is no grading, and You may take it as many times as You wish. The goal is not to evaluate performance, but to support reflection, reinforce key ideas, and enhance Your understanding in a low-pressure, enjoyable way.

Read one of the following articles:

Full PDF versions will be shared upon acceptance into the course

Ferrando, F., Rozzoni S. “Vision Quest in Posthumanist Education: Focuses, Praxes and Experiences”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Issue 4, n. 31, 2024, Print ISSN: 0967-2559 Online ISSN: 1466-4542, pp. 586-611;
Debashish, B., Ferrando, F., Pascoe, J., Rozzoni, S."Ethics Beyond Theory: The Mythical Journey of a Human Being towards Posthumanist Pr-Ethics" in Malapi-Nelson, A. Theiner, G., (eds.) Technologies of the Future Self: An Ethics for Transhuman Flourishing, in press.
Debashish, B., Ferrando, F., Marchesini, R. Pascoe, J., Rozzoni, S., "From Theory to Praxis: 4 Posthumanist Exercises" in Sands, D., Hayler, M., & Daigle, C. Posthumanism in Practice Volume II, Bloomsbury, in press.

Suggested Readings

We recommend that applicants have familiarity with at least two of the following publications on posthumanism (listed in alphabetical order):

Banerji, Debashish, and Makarand R. Paranjape, editors. Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Springer, 2016.

Banerji, Debashish, Md. Monirul Islam, and Samrat Sengupta, editors. Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2025.

Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway. Duke University Press, 2007.

Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity Press, 2013.

Braidotti, Rosi. Posthuman Feminism. Polity Press, 2022.

Ferrando, Francesca. Philosophical Posthumanism. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Ferrando, Francesca. The Art of Being Posthuman. Polity Press, 2024.

Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Hayles, N. Katherine. Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Haraway. D. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.

Marchesini, Roberto. Beyond Anthropocentrism: Thoughts for a Post-Human Philosophy. Mimesis International, 2016.

Marchesini, Roberto. Towards an Ethics of Empathy. Ethics International Press, 2022.

Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz, and Robert Ranisch, editors. Posthumanism and Transhumanism: An Introduction. Peter Lang, 2020.

Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz. We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism. Bristol University Press, 2022.

Course Material

Videos and readings for each module will be sent separately to Participants by our Faculty.

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