Now that the ParaDoxa site is up and running, I thought I would start to articulate some of the philosophies and ideas that lie behind my attempt to develop something radical and new in healthcare. Perhaps the most confronting and exciting concept — and so naturally the one we should tackle first — is posthumanism.
Great start, looking forward to reading the next instalment. I particularly liked" the biopsychosocial model can’t do it because they remain only superficial, lacking the capacity to overcome the deep ontological differences between their different domains (the biological only sits comfortable next to the psycho and the social in a Venn diagram).
Interested to see what you're going to say about Foucault and post humanism, I find there's a lot of positioning him as "merely" representational, which I think is a straw dog argument.
Thanks for the lovely comments, Sarah. I'm working on Part 2 this week, trying to divine some grounding principles and points of distinction for people who might be coming to posthumanism afresh. Couldn't agree more about Foucault's positioning. Have you seen Thomas Lemke's 'The Government of Things'? I really liked his critique of the strengths and limitations of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karan Barad's positions, but wasn't entirely convinced with his argument about Foucault's governmentality always being deeply thingly.
Great start, looking forward to reading the next instalment. I particularly liked" the biopsychosocial model can’t do it because they remain only superficial, lacking the capacity to overcome the deep ontological differences between their different domains (the biological only sits comfortable next to the psycho and the social in a Venn diagram).
Interested to see what you're going to say about Foucault and post humanism, I find there's a lot of positioning him as "merely" representational, which I think is a straw dog argument.
Thanks for the lovely comments, Sarah. I'm working on Part 2 this week, trying to divine some grounding principles and points of distinction for people who might be coming to posthumanism afresh. Couldn't agree more about Foucault's positioning. Have you seen Thomas Lemke's 'The Government of Things'? I really liked his critique of the strengths and limitations of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karan Barad's positions, but wasn't entirely convinced with his argument about Foucault's governmentality always being deeply thingly.
Very interesting ! Awaiting for more on the differences qua trans and post humanism.