Margret Grebowicz | |
---|---|
Born | Małgorzata E. Grebowicz 1973 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
|
Thesis | Without a Knowing Subject: Thought, Responsibility and The “Future” of Science (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | David Carr |
Other advisors | Jean-François Lyotard |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
Margret Grebowicz (born 1973) is a Polish philosopher,author,and former jazz vocalist. She is a professor of philosophy at Missouri University of Science and Technology. [1] In addition to peer-reviewed academic publications,Grebowicz,a proponent of public humanities,also publishes many works for the lay audience.
Grebowicz is originally from Łódź,Poland [2] but was raised in Texas. In 1994,she earned a bachelor's degree in German literature,philosophy,and art history from the University of Texas at Austin. While completing her undergraduate degree,Grebowicz worked in record stores. She completed a Master of Arts degree from Emory University in 1998. In 2001,she earned a doctorate in philosophy at Emory University where she studied under Jean-François Lyotard. [3] She completed her dissertation on late 20th century French philosophy and Anglo-American philosophy of science with doctoral advisor David Carr. [4]
After her doctorate,Grebowicz taught at University of Houston–Downtown and wrote papers on feminist epistemology,radical democracy,French philosophy,and visual culture. She also translated poetry from Polish into English,including works by Ewa Lipska. [5] In September 2003,she sang in her debut performance as the lead vocalist for the bossa nova Brazilian jazz group Com Você. Grebowicz had previously not sung since she was a child. She performs songs in English and Portuguese. [6] In 2010,Grebowitz released an album called Com Você with Sunnyside Records along with musicians,Stan Killian,Ben Monder,Matvei Sigalov,Viviane Arnoux,and Scott Colley. [7]
In 2010,she was a Leverhulme Fellow at University of Dundee where she researched Internet pornography and political ontology. [8] From 2010 to 2017,Grebowicz was a jazz vocalist living in New York City and worked as an associate professor of philosophy at Goucher College, [3] and also was an affiliate faculty of the Goucher environmental studies program. In May 2018,Grebowicz announced that she was leaving Goucher. [9] Since 2020,Grebowicz has been an associate professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice,Poland. [10] Her recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic , [11] Slate , [12] and The Philosophical Salon. [13]
Grebowicz is the editor of Practices,a forthcoming book series from Duke University Press. [14] Other forthcoming publications include Lyotard and Critical Practice,(Bloomsbury Publishing,2022);and Rescue Me,a short book about dog owner culture (University of Minnesota Press,2022). [15] [16]
She serves on the executive committee of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. [4]
From 2010 to 2017,Grebowicz resided in New York City. [3]
Posthumanism or post-humanism is an idea in continental philosophy and critical theory responding to the presence of anthropocentrism in 21st-century thought. Posthumanization comprises "those processes by which a society comes to include members other than 'natural' biological human beings who, in one way or another, contribute to the structures, dynamics, or meaning of the society."
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies. Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstruction.
"The Black Pits of Luna" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a Boy Scout on a trip to the Moon and his novel way of finding his lost brother. Included as part of his Future History, it originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, January 10, 1948, and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth.
Donna J. Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics.
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles. He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.
A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot. Gynoids appear widely in science fiction films and arts. As more realistic humanoid robot design becomes technologically possible, they are also emerging in real-life robot design. Just like any other robot, the main parts of a gynoid include sensors, actuators and a control system. Sensors are responsible for detecting the changes in the environment while the actuators, also called effectors, are motors and other components responsible for the movement and control of the robot. The control system instructs the robot on what to do so as to achieve the desired results.
"A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 in the Socialist Review. In it, the concept of the cyborg represents a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "human" from "machine." Haraway writes: "The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
Digitality is used to mean the condition of living in a digital culture, derived from Nicholas Negroponte's book Being Digital in analogy with modernity and post-modernity.
Rada Iveković is a Croatian professor, philosopher, Indologist and writer.
"Transience" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine Startling Stories. It was later collected in The Other Side of the Sky and The Nine Billion Names of God.
Feminist epistemology is an examination of epistemology from a feminist standpoint.
David Matthew Sandner is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton.
"Armaments Race" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1954, and later anthologized in Tales from the White Hart. Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the pub "White Hart", where the fictional Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale.
Cat Country is a dystopian satirical novel by Chinese writer Lao She (1899–1966), first published in 1933. It has been translated into English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese and Russian.
The Animal That Therefore I Am is a book based on the ten-hour address on the subject of "the autobiographical animal" given by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida at the 1997 Cerisy Conference and subsequently published as a long essay under the title, "The Animal That Therefore I Am ". The book has gained notability as signalling Derrida's turn to questions surrounding the ontology of nonhuman animals, the ethics of animal slaughter and the difference between humans and other animals. Derrida's lecture has come to be a foundational text in Animal Studies within the fields of literary criticism and critical theory. Whilst the text is often seen as marking the "animal turn" in Derrida's oeuvre, Derrida himself said that his interest in animals was in fact present in his earliest writings.
Gertrude Carman Bussey was an American academic philosopher and activist for women's rights, civil liberties, and peace.
The term Chicanafuturism was originated by scholar Catherine S. Ramírez which she introduced in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies in 2004. The term is a portmanteau of 'chicana' and 'futurism'. The word 'chicana' refers to a woman or girl of Mexican origin or descent. However, 'Chicana' itself serves as a chosen identity for many female Mexican Americans in the United States, to express self-determination and solidarity in a shared cultural, ethnic, and communal identity while openly rejecting assimilation. Ramírez created the concept of Chicanafuturism as a response to white androcentrism that she felt permeated science-fiction and American society. Chicanafuturism can be understood as part of a larger genre of Latino futurisms.
Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk was a Ukrainian science fiction writer, futurist and globalist, philosopher and theologian, public figure, Red Army soldier during World War II, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps. He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction.
Georges Van Den Abbeele is a literary scholar, culture critic, philosopher, and writer. He is Professor of Humanities at the University of California at Irvine, with appointments in the departments of English, and European Languages and Studies, with affiliated appointments in Comparative Literature, Classics, and philosophy, as well as the PhD Program in Culture and Theory.
Rosalind Helen Williams is an American historian of technology whose works examine the societal implications of modern technology. She is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.