ART AT THE END OF HUMANITY | OCTOBER 2016

 

Speakers:

 

Lenny Moss, currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter, and a former biomedical research scientist, completed doctoral degrees in biochemistry at UC Berkeley and philosophy at Northwestern University. His earlier book *What Genes Can’t Do* offered a wide-ranging critique of “informational preformationism”. His subsequent work has been concerned with questions of nature and normativity , engages and expresses, a combination of theoretical biology, Frankfurt School critical theory, and philosophical anthropology.

 

Robert Pepperell is Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design and leader of Fovolab, a multidisciplinary research laboratory that integrates art and science. He has exhibited widely and produced numerous academic articles and books, including The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness beyond the brain (1995/2003).

 

David Roden has worked as a Lecturer and Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. He is author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (published by Routledge 2014). His research has addressed posthumanism, philosophical naturalism, cyberculture, deconstruction, the metaphysics of computer music and new realism.

 

October 28, 2016