Published: 2023-12-15

Thinking (with) the Thicket. On Relational Thinking in Times of the Anthropocene on the Example of Epigenetics. Feminist New Materialist Perspective

Monika Rogowska-Stangret Logo ORCID
Section: GEologos. In search of new alliances
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.14

Abstract

In her article, Monika Rogowska-Stangret reflects on the kind of humanities that might be adequate for the epoch of the Anthropocene, when both the conditions of living on the planet Earth and traditional modes of thinking have been destabilized. Drawing inspiration mainly from two trends in contemporary philosophy, critical posthumanism and feminist new materialisms, the author suggests relational thinking as a response to the Anthropocene. She characterizes relational thinking (sometimes referred to as thinking (with) the thicket) with reference to one example, epigenetics. She defines thinking (with) the thicket and explains the notion of epigenetics and its concerns. Finally, she addresses three challenges that humanities are faced with in the Anthropocene, thinking with “unruly edges” (thinking outside dualism and “modern constitution”), thinking (with) scales, and, finally, thinking the human being outside the poisoner-savior logic.

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Rogowska-Stangret, M. (2023). Thinking (with) the Thicket. On Relational Thinking in Times of the Anthropocene on the Example of Epigenetics. Feminist New Materialist Perspective. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 32(2), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.14

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-03-29


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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