Crossing Paths: The Case for an Eco-Critical Posthumanism
Crossing Paths: The Case for an Eco-Critical Posthumanism

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, as a response to some of the recent attempts to promote a “post-critical” approach to the humanities, I propose an eco-critical posthumanism as a research program that analyzes the historical nexus between humanism and capitalism, thus attempting to reconcile several traditions and interventions in an intersectional framework. For this purpose, I look at the essential theoretical developments from the 1970s (eco-feminism, ecological economics) that have contributed to a critique of both humanism and capitalism as precursors of critical posthumanism. Instead of inventing new forms of ontological and metaphysical thinking, I argue that we still need, in the words of Marx, “a ruthless criticism of all that exists” that may lead to an alternative to capitalist humanism.

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