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Monstrosity as playful practice : Art, science and posthuman knowledge in the ‘Anthropocene’ (2021)
Koistinen, A.-K. (2021). Monstrosity as playful practice : Art, science and posthuman knowledge in the ‘Anthropocene’. In Monstrosity : The 17th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar. CoE GameCult. https://youtu.be/pGWG7uJKxZk
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa
Parent publication: Monstrosity : The 17th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar
Place and date of conference: Tampere, Finland, 20.-22.4.2021
Publication year: 2021
Publication date: 29/04/2021
Publisher: CoE GameCult
Publication country: Finland
Publication language: English
Persistent website address: https://youtu.be/pGWG7uJKxZk
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Additional information: Keynote speech from Monstrosity: The 17th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar April 20-22, 2021
Abstract
In this keynote talk, I build on my experiences as a scholar, poet and a human female living and writing with a companion animal to explore the playful interconnections of art and science – as well as the posthuman knowledges produced through these interconnections. I discuss monstrosity as a playful practice, drawing on Haraway’s writings regarding playful becomings between species and the promises of monsters, as well as Rosi Braidotti’s work on posthuman knowledge and my previous work as part of the Monster Network.
I suggest that the potential for creative imagination, art and the media – such as games – should be used more to critically conceptualize, imagine and re-imagine human relations to the nonhuman in the so-called Anthropocene.
Keywords: posthumanism; Anthropocene; human-animal relationship; knowledge production; creative methods; creative writing
Free keywords: cat-writing; creative writing; posthuman knowledge; anthropocene; feminist knowledge-production
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