Posthumanist Approaches to a Critique of Political Economy

Lisa Moravec is an art historian, cultural critic, and lecturer. She is a senior postdoc at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, leading the FWF project “The Performance of Critique: AI, Bodily Intelligence, and Posthumanist Aesthetics”. Publications include Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance (2024); co-ed. ex. cat. Suddenly Begin in Splendour: Rose English (2024); peer-reviewed articles, essays, and art criticism in art magazines. Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer and researcher examining the way culture is socially and digitally produced. She holds a curatorial position at The Ryder Projects (Madrid), is visiting lecturer at the CuratorLab Konstfak University of Arts, Crafts and Design Stockholm, and a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.

• Section One: Visualizing: Artificial Intelligence and Platform Imaginaries1: Reverse ContradictionaryVuk Cosic (Independent artist, Slovenia), IOCOSE (Independent Art Group, Germany, UK, Italy), Vladan Joler (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) 2: AI as the Eternal Return of Human, All Too Human Images of Thought. Kilian Jörg (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria) 3: The Ontology of the Digital Photograph Helen Lewandowski (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK)4: UnLearning Instagram(ism): Performing the Home Otherwise Bernadette Krejs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)Section TwoTouching: Digital Contact and Economies of Embodiment 5: Embodied Partialities Ofri Cnaani (Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria)6: Digital Attunement and Other Intimacies Tiara Roxanne (Independent Scholar, Germany)7: Dating App Liquidities and Posthumanist Erotics Carmen Lael Hines (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)8: What Is the Opposite of the Body?: Opening Up to the Power of Disembodiment Assad Assad (Independent scholar, USA)Section ThreeCirculating: Logistics and Materializing Capital 9: Infrastructures of Humanism Stefano Harney (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany) and Carmen Lael Hines (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)10: Trawling the Net: Grids, Lines, Bodies, Images In and Out of Place Benj Gerdes (Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden)11: Race and Robotics Louis Chude-Sokei (Boston University, USA)Section FourSpeculating: Utopic and Dystopic Views on Technology 12: Navigating Techno-Modernity: Dystopia, Realism and Utopia in the Age of Digital Transformation Into the Black Box Collective Niccolò Cuppini (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), Mattia Frapporti,University of Bologna, Italy), Maurilio Pirone (University of Bologna, Italy) 13: The Multiple Reproductions of the Biobag Holly Isard(University of West London, UK)14: Embodying Risk and Active Imagining: Re-Entangling Finance, Economy, and EcologyGerald Nestler (Independent Scholar, Austria) in conversation with the editors (Carmen Lael Hines and Lisa Moravec)Section FivePerforming: Human and Non-Human Actors15:“No Human is Limited”: On the Hyperaestheticization of Olympic SportsLisa Moravec (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)16: Theatre without Workers: Postdramatic Theatre after 2008Doug Eacho (University of Toronto, Canada)17: Humane Methods: An Unsolvable Quest for Empathy Marco Donnarumma and Margherita Pevere (Fronte Vacuo, Independent Art Group, Germany and Italy)Section Six Organizing: Multi-Species Presents and Futures 18: Revengeful Nature: Posthumanist Frontiers in Speculative Architecture Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)19: Multispecies Assemblies and OrganizationsChristoph Chwatal (Independent Scholar, Germany and Austria)20: Ilemuria Ayesha Hameed (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)21: Ordnungswut: On whose terms do we bring structure to the world?Marlene Bart (Independent Scholar, Germany)Endnote22: Dissident TranslationsAndreas Spiegl (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria)