ABSTRACT
Living in the times of what Rosi Braidotti calls ‘posthuman convergence’ (2021), in this book ‘we’ dare to take on the present, in the times when witnessing the Anthropocene renders more ‘thinking with care’ (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2012), responsibility and pain. This makes it difficult to pick any one or two climate change and social decline related incidents, such as, the wildfires in Hawaii, draughts in most part of the middle east, war in Ukraine, and the Bibby Stockholm marking the beginning of a new colonial era, this time to keep asylum seekers in a floating ship in Dorset (UK). All the while, hundreds and hundreds of migrants become displaced and drown off the coasts of Europe, the same news day after day, all of this after a long – social and economic – post-pandemic crisis. Under this condition, how can we not think of the hu(man), and of the ‘humanity’, ‘the human(ness) in us’ (Braidotti, 2013) and if ‘it makes sense to speak of ‘humanity’ at all?’ (Herbrechter, 2021).
