Rick Dolphijn is a writer and a philosopher. He wrote Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption, New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin), and edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life and Philosophy After Nature. He is finishing editing A World is Born Here: How Michel Serres Thinks Currents and Codes. He teaches at Utrecht University and holds a honorary associate professorship at Hong Kong University. He works on continental philosophy, contemporary art, activism and life. His new monograph is entitled The Cracks of the Contemporary.The Cracks of the Contemporary VI: The Wound (lecture)
Rick Dolphijn proposes that we think about the wound and its relation to time from a posthuman, new materialist perspective. When mapping the wound, we should ask ourselves: how does the wound travel? In what way does it realise the war trauma and the fascist State? In what way does it not only crack the relation between nature and culture but also give rise to environmental disaster?
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Philosophy and art have the power to unsettle and to reveal new openings. They can create cracks in the present, through which new things may appear — the unforeseen, a glimpse of a future to come — forcing the existent understanding of the world and ourselves out of perspective. New concepts may challenge the present crisis and ask us to think differently, for instance, by reconsidering the relations between humanity, nature and culture. What is the political potency of nature in more-than-human terms? Do we live in posthuman times? How do the new materialisms contribute to these explorations?
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