Fotograf Zone – Rosi Braidotti

One of the most inspiring philosophers of our time has written, in her own words, her final academic book. She uses it to summarize and develop the insights of her previous texts so it can serve primarily as a “navigational tool”, one not only for an intellectual reflection on the ways out of the crisis of the Anthropocene. The book aims to inspire an “active life beyond these pages” through the search for an inclusive, sympathetic, and affirmative coexistence of all human and non-human entities on our planet. In this way, the author continues her call for an engagement with the world that is not-just-a-critique, but active. So, what does it really mean to be a post-humanist feminist today? The title of the Epilogue might hint at the answer: Get a Life!

Rosi Braidotti. Posthuman Feminism. Cambridge / Medford: Polity Press, 2022. ISBN:␣9781509518074.

Tereza Špinková

is a theorist and curator. Currently she is studying for a doctorate at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, where she deals primarily with the relationship between human and non-human entities.

#44 Empathy

The ability to empathise with others is a construct that has only been around for a few centuries. This does not mean that such a skill did not exist until then. However, the concept of empathy creates a field in which this ability oscillates from understanding the other party to understanding the self. And because such a playground can be quite expansive, and the playing balls of empathy can be ping-ponged from one side to the other, we decided to dedicate an issue of the magazine to this field.