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(Another) Year Zero: The Commons in a Posthuman Age
(Another) Year Zero: The Commons in a Posthuman Age

Author(s): Horea Poenar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Community; Commons; Post-human; Following; Autobiography.

Summary/Abstract: The concept of the post-human is now taken for granted and it is part of a series of concepts (post-history, post-theory, post-politics, etc.) that pretend to better define our contemporary times. This paper investigates if – in such a context – there is any place left for the commons. In order to pursue this investigation, we meditate on the way these fashionable concepts function and we try to test the possibility and legitimacy of a few concepts that have been brushed under the carpet by the ideology of our era: act, New Man, truth, Event, etc. It is in this tension between what our epoch (and its academic and rational framework) allows us to think and the courage to open other paths that the problem of the commons proves to be fertile and instructive.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 11-36
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English