Speculative Posthumanism and “Dark Phenomenology”

“Roden wants to develop a theoretical framework– he calls it “speculative posthumanism”–that will allow us to think through the possibility of unboundedly weird forms of posthuman life. In the absence of such a conceptual apparatus, he thinks that we lack the resources to think the difference the posthuman impies. According to Roden, contemporary philosophy, because dominated by various forms of critical anthropocentrism (roughly, philosophical positions that identify conditions of knowledge claims with distinctively human modes of cognition) pre-emptively bounds the weirdness that the category “posthuman” solicits us to think…”