Response to Francesca Ferrando's "Philosophical Posthumanism" for the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, April 24, 2021
Talk given for the Sustainable Societies Conference II: Visions for a Viable Future in a Time of Covid and Climate Calamity organized by the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA on March 19, 2021.
There are two questions that this paper seeks to explore: firstly, how Karakahini systematically departs from the anthropocentric bias that has been intrinsic to Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy and politics, and second how can re-think the relationship between human and the non-human vis-à-vis Sri Aurobindo’s conceptual paradigms.
This paper demonstrates how Indian female para-athletes stand beyond the imaginary identifications and frames of mirrored wholeness and antagonism.