Rosi Braidotti "Intelligence, Affirmative Ethics and the Anti-fascist Life" DGS24, TU Delft

Day 1 Keynote Lecture by Rosi Braidotti at the 2024 Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference organised by the Architecture Philosophy and Theory academic group of the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft.
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"Intelligence, Affirmative Ethics and the Anti-fascist Life"
Affirmative ethics, as a collective and radically democratic praxis, must be constructed by subjects who collectively defy unity and actualise a virtual heterogeneous assemblage. The composition of an ethically active subjectivity is achieved by transcending the force of the negative and by acknowledging and reworking reactive emotions such as pain, anger, greed, and fear. It entails working through negative instances to attain a more profound understanding of their sources-both affective and cognitive-and striving to transform them into affirmation. Ethics demands rigorous effort: it encompasses not only critical intelligence but also the force of affectivity in relational and epistemological operations. Affirmative ethics functions as a critique of power by exposing the despotic instances of contemporary power formations and the undercurrents of molecular molarities or micro-fascisms. It breaks free from the toxic bonds and the acquiescent application of established norm and values. It deterritorialises them by introducing ethical flows that unfold and enhance relational interdependence. Affirmative ethical subjects are not enamoured of power. An affirmative life, therefore, epitomises “the anti-fascist life.”
Rosi Braidotti is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Main publications: Nomadic Subjects 2011a); and Nomadic Theory, 2011b, Columbia University Press. The Posthuman, 2013; Posthuman Knowledge, 2019; Posthuman Feminism, 2022 Polity Press. The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022), Bloomsbury Academic.

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