Posthumanist Theory: Objects, Problems, and Methodologies

Despite its growing ethical and political impact, posthumanist theory is quite fragmented and methodologically eclectic. This can be explained by the fact that posthumanist theory gets its ideas from different disciplines and fields. As far as every kind of discipline or studies presupposes a different methodology, we found ourselves in a situation where every different object is being researched according to a different methodology. This is the reason why this research project sought to create a coherent methodology which would help to examine physical, biological, human, and technological entities according to the same principles and with the help of a unified terminology. The project was based on Gilbert Simondon’s method of “analogical paradigmatism”, which helped to compare different – physical, biological, human (emotional and affective), and technological – systems. Simondon’s idea of ontogenesis allowed us to compare the development and change in all living and non-living systems.

Main results:

• Žukauskaitė, Audronė. 2018. G. Simondon’o ontogenezės teorija: tarp organizmo ir techninio objekto, Problemos 94: 22–34. ISSN 2424-6158 (Online). ISSN 1392-1126 (Print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.0.0.11992
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė. 2019. Hybrids, Chimeras, Aberrant Nuptials: New Modes of Cohabitation in Bioart”, Nordic Theatre Studies 31 (1): 22–37. ISSN Online: 2002-3898 and ISSN Print: 0904-6380. https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/article/view/113000/161687
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė.  2020. Gaia Theory: Between Autopoiesis and Sympoiesis, Problemos 98: 141–153. ISSN 2424-6158 (Online). ISSN 1392-1126 (Print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.98.13
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė. 2020. “Multiplicity as a Life: Deleuze, Simondon, Ruyer”, in. Przedpelski, R. and Wilmer, S. E. (eds). Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 35-49. ISBN: 9781474457651
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė. 2021. Planetary Assemblages: From Organic to Inorganic and Beyond, in de Assis, P. and Guidici, P. (eds.). Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 297–308. ISBN: 9789462702547
• Žukauskaitė, Audronė. 2023. Organism-Oriented Ontology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).