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BIRTH
BIRTH
In contemporary terms, Existential Posthumanism was born in the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As familiar structures of life suddenly fell away, the pandemic confronted us with questions that could no longer remain abstract: What does it mean to be human in a fragile, interconnected world? How do we live with uncertainty, finitude, and our dependence on other humans, other species, and the living world?
In that moment, Existential Posthumanism became more than an academic perspective. It became an existential practice—a way of making sense of who we are, how we relate, and how we might live differently. The pandemic created a space in which we could pause, listen, and question inherited assumptions about humanity and our place in the world.
Existential Posthumanism emerged from this encounter between crisis and possibility: a philosophy grounded in lived experience and oriented toward new ways of being, relating, and co-existing.
And yet, its roots and wings reach far beyond the pandemic. Its questions have been whispered, explored, embodied, and lived across many times and places.
Existential Posthumanism is not a new beginning, but a new confluence—a place where ancient and contemporary currents meet, where different rivers can flow without losing their distinctness.
Many rivers, flowing from countless times and places, meeting in one vast ocean of existence.
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SHARED JOURNEY
SHARED JOURNEY
One Ocean, Many Rivers
One Ocean, Many Rivers
We would like to walk it together in the form of what we have come to call a “posthuman journey”: a series of gatherings, projects, and ways of co-existing in which we share ideas, reflections, experiences, and questions; inspire and kindly challenge one another; and remain open to the ways in which our encounters might transform our ways of being.
A vision of plurality flowing toward a shared horizon: many paths, voices, knowledges, and lived experiences, each with its own source and course, yet connected within a larger ecology of becoming. We imagine its vision as multiple and expansive: a rainbow of many colours, in which distinct lines and perspectives remain recognisable while speaking to one another, drawing on a rich range of traditions, forms of wisdom, and ways of thinking from across the world.
Rather than beginning with a fixed destination, this journey invites us to learn through the process itself, allowing our mutual influence to shape not only what we come to understand, but also how we live and co-exist. In this way, we hope to develop modes of co-existing that brings intellectual clarity into conversation with lived experience, embodied knowledge, and the unlimited potential that emerges when different currents meet without losing their unique and creative expressions.
In this shared existential journey, we recurrently meet in person through our Conference Series "Existential Posthumanism", and continue to nourish this inquiry remotely through our current editorial project "Existential Posthumanism: A Visionary Introduction", coming out soon.
Together, we open a space for different voices, traditions, and perspectives to meet and flow into one another—many rivers from many times and places, flowing toward the ocean of existential awareness.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
Conference Series
Conference Series
This is the general scientific committee for the conference series. Each edition of the conference has its own dedicated scientific committee, which can be found on the respective edition’s page.
In alphabetic order:
In alphabetic order:
Debashish Banerji, Ph.D.
Debashish Banerji, Ph.D.
Debashish Banerji, Ph.D., is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. He has authored and edited several books on figures of "the Bengal Renaissance,” Critical Posthumanism, Integral Yoga Psychology and on several creative and art-related projects. He has curated exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art and has written and produced a documentary film, Darshan: The Living Art of India (2018). A monograph Time-Steps of the Cosmic Horse: The Contemplative Philosophy of the Great Forest (Brihadāraṇyaka) Upaniṣad and a co-edited volume Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography, are his latest published book projects. A monograph on a theoretical approach to Indian Art, Visual Imagination of India: History, Theory, Method is now in press.
Francesca Ferrando Ph.D. teaches Philosophy at New York University (US), NYU-Program of Liberal Studies. Dr. Ferrando is a leading voice in the field of Posthuman Studies and the author of several publications, including The Art of Being Posthuman (Polity) and Philosophical Posthumanism (Bloomsbury); their work has been translated into a dozen languages. Dr. Ferrando was awarded the philosophical prize "Sainati" by the President of Italy; named "One of the 100 Top Creatives Making Change in the World" by ‘ORIGIN’ Magazine, and defined as "the Philosopher Poet of our Times". More info: www.theposthuman.org
Roberto Marchesini, Ph.D.
Roberto Marchesini, Ph.D.
Roberto Marchesini (Bologna, 1959) is an ethologist and philosopher known for his work in cognitive science, philosophical ethology, and zooanthropology. He is the director of the journal Animal Studies, the School of Human-Animal Interaction (Siua), and the Center for Posthumanist Philosophy Studies. Marchesini has authored over a hundred publications and lectures internationally. His key works on human-animal relations include Post Human (2002), Philosophical Ethology (2016), The Creative Animal (2022), and Posthumanist Manifesto (2023). He has contributed entries on zooanthropology and Animal Studies to UTET and Treccani encyclopedias.
Rodrigo Esparza Parga, Ph.D.
Rodrigo Esparza Parga, Ph.D.
Rodrigo Esparza is a Civil Engineer and Philosopher of Technology. He has been professor at various campi of Tecnológico de Monterrey, such as Mexico City, Santa Fe, Puebla, Toluca, and Chihuahua, for almost 12 years. He has taught several courses, including "Science, Technology and Society", "Ethics and Society", "Ethics, Profession and Citizenship", and "Philosophy & Contemporary Thought". His research area focuses on Philosophy of Technology and Applied Ethics. He has headed a team of 44 Engineering and Architecture professors, at Tecnológico de Monterrey, on how to apply ethics and social entrepreneurship as hands-on exercises in their fields. He also launched a multidisciplinary approach for bridging Science and Humanities. Professor Esparza earned his Ph.D. in 2013 from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus.
Joanna Pascoe, Ph.D.
Joanna Pascoe, Ph.D.
Joanna Pascoe is a posthuman feminist arts-based researcher/writer/maker/philosopher and lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her research interests include posthuman pedagogy, public pedagogy, the affirmative ethics of joy, hopepunk possibilities, speculative fiction and poetic inquiry. Her doctoral thesis, The Posthuman Learner: Mothers, Monsters and Machines explores how engagement with speculative fiction texts in light of posthuman theory may open lines of flight for an affirmative ethics of joy in education. Her background is in creative writing, theatre and applied linguistics, with a focus on curiosity, creativity, and a deep love for the world. She is a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.
Stefano Rozzoni, Ph.D.
Stefano Rozzoni, Ph.D.
Stefano Rozzoni, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He holds a PhD in Transcultural Studies in Humanities from the University of Bergamo and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (cotutelle) from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Dr. Rozzoni’s research focuses on forms of human-nonhuman ethical relationality in Anglophone literature and culture across various periods, media, and themes (including the pastoral, rural and urban spaces and places, and pollution). Dr. Rozzoni adopts a transdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from Philosophy (Posthumanism), Economics (Civil Economy), Education Studies, and Literature (Ecocriticism, Postcoloniality) within the context of the Environmental Humanities. He is also a co-founder of the Italian Posthuman Network and a co-Director of the Global Posthuman Network.
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