Anthropos Redux

A Defence of Monism in the Anthropocene Epoch

Authors

  • Rosi Braidotti Utrecht University

Abstract

This essay starts from the assumption that the historical situation of today is unprecedented in ecological, economic, sociopolitical, as well as affective terms. The era known as the Anthropocene requires new ways of thinking in order to account for new practices and discourses related to this situation. By offering a defence of Spinozist monism, this essay attempts to strike a critical balance between new and internally contradictory contemporary concerns, such as the fast technological developments on the one hand and the perpetuation of more familiar patterns of oppression, like structural economic inequalities, on the other. Both aspects of the present predicament will receive critical attention in the cartography of the Anthropocenic era that I will discuss here and which I read in terms of the posthuman condition.

Author Biography

  • Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University

    Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance (1991), Nomadic Subjects (1994/2011), Metamorphoses (2002), Transpositions (2006), La philosophie, lá où on ne l’attend pas (2009), Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti (2011), and The Posthuman (2013). In 2016 she co-edited with Paul Gilroy: Conflicting Humanities. Since 2009 she has been an elected board member of CHCI (Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes).

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 2 (2016): Perspectives on the Anthropocene

Section

Main Section

License

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How to Cite

Braidotti, R. (2026). Anthropos Redux: A Defence of Monism in the Anthropocene Epoch. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 29(2), 29-46. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27371