2025 Braidotti Summer School

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The 2025 Braidotti Summer School will focus on the theme of affirmative ethics by analysing, together with a selected group of participants, contemporary patterns of social and personal negativity. The course will continue Braidotti’s pioneering exploration of the intersections between critical theory, feminist philosophy, posthumanism, and the politics of life and death. This year’s program critically engages with the negative forces shaping the contemporary present—such as necropolitics, neo-fascism and illiberal governance, unequal distribution of wealth and access to the new technologies, the persistence of technologically mediated wars and surveillance strategies, left-wing melancholia, and the bio-politics of reproduction—while seeking affirmative alternatives that foster hope and creativity in the face of these challenges.

Structured into five parts across a week’s time, the program will deepen participants’ engagement with Braidotti’s posthuman theory and affirmative ethics, asking how we might respond to contemporary negativity through a posthuman, non-dualistic lens.

The week-long course will take place in person, at Utrecht University, and will consist of lectures and work groups led by Professor Braidotti, as well as guest speakers.

Course leader

Prof. dr. Rosi Braidotti

Fee info