Rosi Braidotti - Necropolitics and Ways of Dying 

The camera is agreeing with everything she says

That was breathtaking ... I need to listen to all of her lectures now.

Oh my God! This woman is amazing!

Phenomenal lecture. Thank you Rosi for the illumination.

full transcript of the lecture: pastebin.com/TTRj9uhD

Jaja que señora más adorable, la amo, tiene mucha gracia al hablar. Y luego es una genio. Gracias por subir!!

Thank you for this synthetic analysis!

Rosi Braidotti never fails to amaze me!

Absolutely brilliant!

That was awesome!

thanks for posting!

Incredible presentation. I would have liked to hear if anyone from the public took offense (especially Anthropocene-ists, if any was present...) Thank you Prof. Braidotti - you gave me food for thoughts for th erest of the week :)

Fucking brilliant, currently writing a paper on Baroque art in metamodernism, little to do with this but it did so much more, I think my current discourse was precisely the lament of the Anthropocene, but this just made me question it completely. I'll continue to watch all her lectures now...

Wow, she is fantastic!

Fearless. Refreshing. Thank you!

I so love everything about her..

Great woman, brilliant idea. Warn hug from indonesia

In the end, a proposed fundamental change in society still boils down to either convincing people or coercing people; and unfortunately the world does not have the luxury of time and resources to convince all; nor should we have the lack of empathy for those suffering while society takes the scenic route to change. Theory needs to not just "speak truth to power", but also encourage coercive tools of concrete force against power; otherwise it might not be any helpul in the time we have.

excellent lecture. though maddeningly the close-up camera doesn't stop shaking the entire time, which is unfair to the content

Bradotti daily gestures of transformation which are the ways in which we live

Rosi Braidotti is bright. Although Zizek supported trump out of cynicism. His analysis of Trump's "America first" is good.

Pain and exhilaration. Let’s do it.

She's wonderful!

superlativa.

Braidotti speaks of the importance of being grounded in the material and accuses the marxist leninist left of impotence. Yet the last 30 to 40 years - a period where the foucauldian, post modern or post structuralist academia or however you what to describe them as, have been on the ascent and have come to be seen as "the left". They have been front and centre. It is this group that has hegemonised the anticapitalist struggle, and conducted that struggle on its own terms, predominantly on a fragmented cultural basis that has in reality help Capital facilitated the notion that "there is no alternative". The outcome? They may have decolonized the university syllabus but they have left us an era of rampant neoliberal capitalist triumph and now disaster, characterised by much liberal hubris but greater economic impoverishment and insecurity (aside from China and India). Not content with overseeing 40 years of political paralysis and a dismantling of a left that was both universal and grounded in the material, Braidotti (or more precisely her political ilk) now views the barren wasteland this necropolitics has left us and further chides a miniscule and feeble marxist leninist left, as if they are to blame. "for doing absolutely nothing", while at same time being too white, too gendered, too colonial, not transactional enough and too focused on systematically opposing Capitalism as opposed to just not buying an iphone or using google. Strip away the philosophical babble and what we have is a re-hashed and rebranded progressive liberalism. Nothing more. Necropolitics and ways of dying indeed.

Mindblowing! Is there a transcript of this lecture?

What is she study? Is she a philosopher? (Sorry muy English)

Critical theory existed before ww1?

"Pope Francis, extraordinary creature" ha ha ha

😶

I understand, hehehe

All I hear is a lament.

Still so Eurocentric lol - as if corpses were not ubiquitous before WWII?

At the end the "we" she talks about are still the people from the rich countries. So what are they going to do? Stop using Iphones?

you look like zizek

All her critiques of other philosophers from latour to zizek seemed very weak and even delusional. It’s kind of just ignoring all the problems they are responding to and then critiquing some already receding sense of “white male patriarchy” which has already given out to the new multiplicity and open expression of identity. Butler already articulated this position as radical, and even in the 80’s this was already the disposition of the ruling ideology itself. The Marxist Leninist reversion then is pathetic and ineffectual, but responding to the even more pathetic and ineffectual post human/liquid identity turn that braidotti is positing here.

The Industrial Age will be over within one to three centuries from now. One or two decades from now, the world economy will become entirely unable to grow any further, go into stagnation for a while, and then switch from the anabolic to the catabolic mode, generating wealth for a rapidly shrinking number of people while destroying everything else. Eventually, the people will rise up against capitalism as it grows weaker, but nothing will bring back a growing economy. The reason for this is the simple fact that the decoupling of economic growth from energy and resource use doesn't work, it is just a fairytale for people who think crapitalism is the best thing ever, and the capitalist industrial mode of production has exceeded and overshot the ecological limits of the biosphere and wasted enormous amounts of non-renewable energy and raw materials on pointless overproduction and overconsumption. Meanwhile, the Industrial Age has caused so much cumulative damage to the biosphere and the other planetary systems like the atmosphere (greenhouse gases are just one of our immense and monstrous problems) that we are at the beginning of the Sixth Extinction event. I don't think human extinction will happen any time soon, but I'd estimate our chances of making it through the coming 10 000 years at not much better than 50%, and that is only if the additional cumulative ecological damage in the remaining time of the dying Industrial Age is not too massive. If it keeps going the way it does now, about 50-70% of all species alive today will vanish, and humans, being highly intelligent omnivores, are quite likely to continue to live on and evolve. However, if we push it to the point where it becomes the kind of extinction event which kills 80-95% of all species, large terrestrial vertebrates just vanish, and we are large terrestrial vertebrates, unfortunately. If we were the size of a mouse, we'd still have a good chance. Dreams of spreading humanity across the Solar System in the next centuries and across the Galaxy in the next millennia will just pop like soap bubbles. I think our technological abilities as a species in terms of technolgical complexity and industrial capacity will peak within this century and then go into decline. But it will all happen rather slowly, with short and sudden catastrophes making things a lot worse every now and then, followed by periods where things improve for a while, never reaching the level before the last catastrophe again though. And just when people think everything will eventually go back to the way things were, the next catastrophe comes. Famines, pamdemics, wars, extreme weather events like droughts, floodings, heatwaves, breaks in the supply chains of all kinds of industries. The human population on this planet will shrink, life expectancy will go down, humans will adapt. And those who have never lost their old ways of living as a part of the living planet Earth will look at the stupid Whites and say, "We told you so, we have been telling you for hundreds of years." And that's OK. Civilisations come and go, and ours is getting old and sick, but it has been suffering from cancer of the economy (aka capitalism) for centuries. If we somehow manage to succeed with an eco-socialist world revolution not too far into the future and put capitalism out of its misery, we might still be able to build a new, different civilisation in the coming centuries.

Verbal descriptional wordism XD. A wery accademical approch: put simple plain and vague concepts behind a wall of A LOT of big words. Femminism ad educadional system gotta understand that all social things, from law to language to etic can only do so much and are SUBORDINATE to reality of things. For exsample female emancipation is NOT due to social changes but is due to automation of phisical labour and advaces in medicine. A cave woman CANNOT pretend to be a cave man even if the 2 agree no matter your arguiments your words or laws xd. A modern woman can pretend to be a man even if the 2 dont agree. (Viceversa is also true). So not eweriting is abaut asking and convincig (that also a very stereotipical way of see things where adult males/mother provide and woman/child demand) Sorry for my bad english i am here mostly for practice ;)

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Imagine her saying the same things about black community. She would be cancelled by "the woke".