Designing the Future Through Touch

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26913/ava3202404

Keywords:

posthumanism, new materialism, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, future, touch, imagination, speculation, divination

Abstract

In the presented article, I consider what the process of designing the future can be. In detail, I am interested in what role touch plays in this process, combined with the practice of speculative imagination. In order to better understand this phenomenon, I use the transdisciplinary model of knowledge production, whose specific feature is the crossing and blurring of boundaries between fields of knowledge. The goal of this activity is to produce new forms of knowledge by combining methods and cognitive tools derived from science, art, humanities, and crafts. In such a context, I am interested in how discursive practices and body practices are complementary. As a research perspective, I adopt the currents of posthumanism and new materialism oriented toward the analysis of human and nonhuman expressions of agency and processes of self-organization of matter. The starting point for the considerations presented here is a critical analysis of the vision of the future in the form of the absence of any future inscribed in the concept of the Anthropocene. Referring to the considerations of feminist thinkers such as Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Karen Barad, I analyze what the future, understood as the commonality of the human and nonhuman, in the perspective of planetary changes, can be.

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Published

2024-05-18

How to Cite

Mroczkowski, B. (2024). Designing the Future Through Touch. Avant, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.26913/ava3202404

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Section

MULTISENSUALITY IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS