Hybrid subjectivities between human and non-human

Abstract

Drawing on the Cyborg figure and on the processes of hybridization it echoes (Haraway, 1995), the article aims to highlight the opportunity for pedagogy to reconsider human subjectivities critically and creatively and to reposition itself in the discussion with the other humanities and natural sciences. The assumption argued is that subject’s identity is the result of a vital history of structural coupling whereby the mind is not independent of the structure of bodily experience (Varela, Thompson, Rosch, 1992). Hence human corporeality, and the world enacted by body/mind coupling plots, reflect just one of many possible evolutionary trajectories (Varela, 1992) of the intra-action between human and nonhuman. Conceiving subjectivities as non-unitary (Braidotti, 2019), articulated (Haraway, 2019), as embodied and embedded (Braidotti, 2014), unable of living except in their radical materiality and entanglement with technological schemes (Braidotti, 2014), require pedagogy to place itself as critical knowledge.