Simulacrum

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Tijdschrift voor Kunst en Cultuur, verzorgd door studenten Kunstgeschiedenis en Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam met als doel een kennismaking en uitwisseling van onderzoeksresultaten, artikelen en vakliteratuur tot stand te brengen. - Thema: "love. Within the humanities, this repositioning of the human condition is examined by a variety of new forms of thought like new-materialism, object-oriented ontology or posthumanism. These emerging fields all contribute in different ways to a repositioning of the human alongside non-human actors. They question the stability of the individuated subject by advocating forms of non-anthropocentric materialist thinking. Moving away from representationalism, the linguistic turn, and social constructivism, these areas engage in the entanglements that make up the different worlds we inhabit.In this sense, becoming posthuman is a constant process of redefining your sense of attachment and connection to an interconnected world. A process in which the condition of ‘Man’, as the former measure of all things, is relinquished to open up new spaces where we can decide together what and who we are capable of becoming. This positive stance allows for prophetic and speculative thinking to take hold of the affirmative dimensions of the present that lead us into the unfolding of the future.It’s at this crossroad that the publication you’re holding wants to contribute by approaching the posthuman subject from a variety of perspectives."