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'''Rosi Braidotti'''  is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University.
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Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received a First-Class Honours degree from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy and the University Tillyard prize. Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in philosophy in 1981. She has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, when she was appointed as the founding professor in women’s studies. In 1995 she became the founding Director of the Netherlands research school of Women’s Studies, a position she held till 2005. Braidotti is a pioneer in European Women’s Studies: she founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the Thematic Network for Women’s Studies ATHENA, which she directed till 2005. She was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College in 2005-6; a Jean Monnet professor at the European University Institute in Florence in 2002-3 and a fellow in the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1994. She was founding director of the Centre for the Humanities from 2007 until September 2016.
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Braidotti’s publications have consistently been placed in continental philosophy, at the intersection with social and political theory, cultural politics, gender, feminist theory and ethnicity studies. The core of her interdisciplinary work consists of four interconnected monographs on the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, with special emphasis on the concept of difference within the history of European philosophy and political theory. Braidotti’s philosophical project investigates how to think difference positively, which means moving beyond the dialectics that both opposes it and thus links it by negation to the notion of sameness. This is evidenced in the philosophical agenda set in her first book ''Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy'' (1991), which gets developed further in the trilogy that follows. In the next book, ''Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory'' (1994; 2nd ed., rev. & exp., 2011), the question is formulated in more concrete terms: can gender, ethnic, cultural or European differences be understood outside the straightjacket of hierarchy and binary opposition? Thus the following volume, ''Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming'' (2002), analyses not only gender differences, but also more categorical binary distinctions between self and other, European and foreign, human and non-human (animal/ environmental/ technological others). The conclusion is that a systematic ambivalence structures contemporary cultural representations of the globalised, technologically mediated, ethnically mixed, gender-aware world we now inhabit. The question consequently arises of what it takes to produce adequate cultural and political representations of a fast-changing world and move closer to Spinozist notions of adequate understanding. The ethical dimension of Braidotti’s work on difference comes to the fore in the last volume of the trilogy, ''Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics'' (2006). Here she surveys the different ethical approaches that can be produced by taking difference and diversity as the main point of reference and conclude that there is much to be gained by suspending belief that political participation, moral empathy and social cohesion can only be produced on the basis of the notion of recognition of sameness. Braidotti makes a case for an alternative view on subjectivity, ethics and emancipation and pitches diversity against the postmodernist risk of cultural relativism while also standing against the tenets of liberal individualism. Throughout her work, Braidotti asserts and demonstrates the importance of combining theoretical concerns with a serious commitment to producing socially and politically relevant scholarship that contributes to making a difference in the world. Braidotti’s output also included several edited volumes. Her work has been translated in more than 20 languages and all the main books in at least three languages other than English.
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Influenced by philosophers such as [[Gilles Deleuze]] and especially “French feminist” thinker Luce Irigaray, Braidotti has brought postmodern feminism into the Information Age with her considerations of cyberspace, prosthesis, and the materiality of difference. Braidotti also considers how ideas of gender difference can affect our sense of the human/animal and human/machine divides. Braidotti has also pioneered European perspectives in feminist philosophy and practice and has been influential on third-wave and post-secular feminisms as well as emerging posthumanist thought.
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In 2005, Braidotti was honored with a Royal Knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; in 2006 she received the University Medal from the University of Lodz in Poland and she was awarded an Honorary Degree in Philosophy from Helsinki University in 2007. In 2009, she was elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2013 she was awarded an Honorary Degree in Philosophy from Linköping University, Sweden. [https://www.uu.nl/staff/RBraidotti (2020)]
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==Publications==
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(in English unless noted otherwise)
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===Books===
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e4021733-e199-4a30-9fc5-227c4604df54 Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy]'', Polity, 1991; 2nd ed., 1996.
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** ''Beelden van de leegte: vrouwen in de hedendaagse filosofie'', Kampen: Kok Agora, 1991, 319 pp. {{nl}}
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** ''Riitasointuja'', trans. Päivi Kosonen, et al., Tampere: Vastapaino, 1993, 296 pp. {{fi}}
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** ''Dissonanze: le donne e la filosofia contemporanea : verso una lettura filosofica delle idee femministe'', Milan: La Tartaruga, 1994, 286 pp. {{it}}
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*{{a|Braidotti1994}}''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/cb65f447-1103-44ca-88b6-1ea544031692 Nomadic Subjects]'', Columbia University Press, 1994; [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/1c4d736e-fcd1-48e5-86d3-f81f607cf0a8 2nd ed., rev. & exp.], Columbia University Press, 2011.
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** ''Soggetto nomade: femminismo e crisi della modernità'', ed. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Donzelli, 1995, xi+132 pp. {{it}}
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** ''Sujetos nómades: corporización y diferente sexual en la teoría feminista contemporánea'', trans. Alcira Bixio, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2000, 254 pp. {{es}}
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** ''Nomadski subjekti: otelotvoruvanje i seksualna razlika vo sovremenata feministicka teorija'' [Номадски субјекти: отелотворување и сексуална разлика во современата феминистицка теорија] , trans. Aneta Stoiljkoviḱ, Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 2002, 427 pp. {{mk}}
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** ''Podmioty nomadyczne: ucieleśnienie i różnica seksualna w feminizmie współczesnym'', Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, trans. Aleksandra Derra, 2009, 306 pp. {{pl}}
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** ''Νομαδικά Yποκείμενα: Ενσωματότητα και έμφυλη διαφορά στη σύγχρονη φεμινιστική θεωρία'', Nissos, 2014. {{gr}}
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* ''Kvinner, miljø og bærekraftig utvikling: mot en teoretisk syntese'', trans. Anne Kristine Haugestad, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1994, 320 pp. {{no}}
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=09CFEAF94498A8BCF9DF74A690E70155 Madri, Mostri e Macchine]'', ed. & postf. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Manifestolibri, 1996, 114 pp; repr., exp., as ''Madri, Mostri e Macchine. Teratologie cyber'', Rome: Manifestolibri, 2005, 143 pp. {{it}}
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0b121000 Nuovi soggetti nomadi. Transizioni e identità postnazionaliste]'', ed. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Sossella, 2002, 201 pp. {{it}}
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/8049a5f8-d825-4b1a-84eb-332fe4359c85 Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming]'', Polity, 2002.
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** ''In metamorfosi: verso una teoria materialista del divenire'', trans. Maria Nadotti, Rome: Feltrinelli, 2002, 354 pp. {{it}}
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** ''[https://archive.org/details/BraidottiMetamorfosis Metamorfosis: hacia una teoría materialista del devenir]'', Madrid: Akal, 2005, 351 pp, [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/cadf80d0-729f-4dee-9095-82d8bffc4d64 PDF]. {{es}}
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* Braidotti, et al., ''Baby Boomers: Vite parallele dagli anni Cinquanta ai cinquant’anni'', Firenze: Giunti, 2003, 191 pp. {{it}}
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8BBA004E332652867410B4428D2E5200 Feminismo, diferencia sexual y subjetividad nómade]'', ed. Amalia Fischer Pfeiffer, trans. Gabriela Ventureira and María Luisa Femena̕s, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2004, 234 pp; repr., 2015. {{es}}
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* ''Op doorreis: nomadisch denken in de 21ste eeuw'', Boom, 2004. {{nl}}
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/ec97d0e5-fd59-459a-b6f5-77fdc18f5abc Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics]'', Polity, 2006.
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** ''Trasposizioni: sull'etica nomade'', ed. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Sossella, 2008, 343 pp. {{it}}
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** ''Transposiciones: sobre la ética nómada'', trans. Alcira Bixio, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2009, 414 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Egy nomád térképei: Feminizmus a posztmodern után'', trans. Vándor Judit and Agárdi Izabella, Budapest: Balassi, 2007, 136 pp. {{hu}}
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* ''La philosophie ...là oú on ne l’attend pas'', Paris: Larousse, 2009, 286 pp. {{fr}}
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9AEB9C69D609826AC36FC84DCEAE61A3 Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti]'', Columbia University Press, 2011, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E5E4C86BB1F745ADE2EC73FE3BABF289 EPUB].
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*{{a|Braidotti2013}}''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/52cf9548-2c3e-4d79-8395-b2a4239d4742 The Posthuman]'', Polity, 2013, 180 pp.
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** ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0F7A672B366243D943E79D67D1EC5150 Il postumano: la vita oltre l'individuo, oltre la specie, oltre la morte]'', Rome: Derive Approdi, 2014, 220 pp, [http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=3F736B1613FD38874ED31EC17C6E8DCB EPUB]. {{it}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/586c568d9ff37c253bb67de8 Posthumanismus: Leben jenseits des Menschen]'', Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2014, 214 pp. {{de}}
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** ''Insan Sonrasi'', Kolektif Kitap Bilişim ve Tasarım, 2014 {{tr}}
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** ''Po człowieku'', trans. Joanna Bednarek and Agnieszka Kowalczyk, forew. Joanna Bednarek, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2014, 389 pp. {{pl}}
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** ''Lo posthumano'', trans. Juan Carlos Gentile Vitale, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2015, 253 pp. {{es}}
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** ''Le posthumain'', Paris: Post éditions, 2015. {{fr}}
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** ''Hou ren lei'' [后人类], trans. Gencheng Song, Zheng zhou: He nan da xue chu ban she, 2016, 364 pp. {{cn}}
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** ''Postumanul'', trans. Ovidiu Anemţoaicei, Bucharest: Hecate, 2016, 296 pp. {{ro}}
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* ''Per una politica affermativa: itinerari etici'', ed. & trans. Angela Balzano, Milan: Mimesis, 2017, 162 pp. {{it}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5eb83f6e9ff37c1dfb2e81e7 Politik der Affirmation]'', Berlin: Merve, 2018, 104 pp. {{de}}
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** ''Por una política afirmativa: itinerarios éticos'', Barcelona: Gedisa, 2018, 190 pp. {{es}}
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* ''Les discutides posthumanitats a debat / The Contested Posthumanities'', ed. CCCB, trans. Ferran Ràfols Gesa, Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), 2017, 105 pp. {{en}}/{{ca}}
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/a807d8be-c4a7-4d25-a465-47c593c92490 Posthuman Knowledge]'', Polity, 2019.
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** ''El conocimiento posthumano'', trans. Júlia Ibarz, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2020, 190 pp. {{es}}
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=B6CE419686E85F2A66D015D0EC456C99 Materialismo radicale: itinerari etici per cyborg e cattive ragazze]'', ed. & trans. Angela Balzano, Milan: Meltemi, 2019, 193 pp. {{it}}
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FA2FD0BA1E53D45A2DF20677CAFB0ED3 Posthuman Feminism]'', Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021, 120 pp. [https://www.wiley.com/en-ad/Posthuman+Feminism-p-9781509518074]
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* ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=78CBDEB2A0AA47D43ABDB1F9C3156779 Fuori sede. Vita allegra di una femminista nomade]'', trans. Chiara Fioravanti, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2021. Selected essays. {{it}}
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* ''Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities'', intro. John May, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022, 88 pp. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9783956796104/posthuman-knowledge-and-the-critical-posthumanities/]
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===Edited volumes===
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* ''Poste restante: feministische berichten aan het postmoderne: naar aanleiding van Donna Haraway's Een cyborg manifest'', Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994, 157 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Christina Crosby, Mary Ann Doane, Jose van Dijck, Ruth Oldenziel, Ines Orobio de Castro, Baukje Prins, Inez van der Spek and Ineke van Wingerden. Review: [https://www.groene.nl/artikel/wat-cyborgs-om-het-lijf-hebben Marianne van Boomen] (Groene Amsterdammer). {{nl}}
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* with Nina Lykke, ''Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace'', Zed Books, 1996, 260 pp. Reviews: [https://sci-hub.st/10.1177/135485659700300213 Dall] (Convergence), [https://issuu.com/kildenkjonnsforskning.no/docs/kvinneforskning_2_97/78 Gulbrandsen] (Kvinneforskning).
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* with Gabriele Griffin, ''Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women’s Studies'', Zed Books, 2002.
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* with Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova, ''Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example'', Utrecht: BAK, and JRP, 2007.
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* with Claire  Colebrook, ''Australian Feminist Studies'': "Feminist Timelines", Taylor & Francis, 2009.
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/e11fcf0f-3502-41af-b7ff-b61c976f4503 After Poststructuralism: Transitions and Transformations]'', Acumen, 2010.
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* with Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/6ff01e87-e850-40c2-886e-2966d6b77f08 Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures]'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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* with Patricia Pisters, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/dd5491e5-d91a-4b93-8c06-e248e3b01755 Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze]'', Continuum, 2012.
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* with Patrick Hanafin and Bolette Blaagaard, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=5AC9D343A04BAAF70615DE18E86F2B7E After Cosmopolitanism]'', Routledge, 2013.
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* with Rick Dolphijn, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/d2b51dfa-7c23-416d-acc1-ccea03b32d9c This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life]'', Rodopi, 2015.
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* with Paul Gilroy, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/b6c93674-0caa-49de-9aa7-af6732ef3b46 Conflicting Humanities]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/conflicting-humanities-9781474237543/ Publisher].
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* with Tim Vermeulen, ''The New Brutality'', e-flux, 2017.
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* with Rick Dolphijn, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/8e981234-81ab-45d7-99d1-f2adf214cb60 Philosophy After Nature]'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
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* with Kin Yueng and Amy K. S. Chan, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/6b1c346d-aef5-426c-9d03-cc186abf996f Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West]'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
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* with Maria Hlavajova, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=19957 The Posthuman Glossary]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xxxii+538 pp, [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/570a7f46-b3ff-41b8-aea1-247e7922ad4c PDF, EPUB].
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* with Vivienne Bozalek, Tamara Shefer, and Michalinos Zembylas, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/bc855325-3555-470a-95b4-e8e01dff1e9d Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 264 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/socially-just-pedagogies-9781350032897/ Publisher].
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* with Cecilia Åsberg, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/89b09bf5-b572-4634-a366-9bc52380ee58 A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities]'', Springer, 2018, x+245 pp. [https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319621388 Publisher].
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* with Simone Bignall, ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/8f5c3548-bab1-42b5-a1bb-308c59764b53 Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze]'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, 288 pp. [https://rowman.com/isbn/9781786608239/posthuman-ecologies-complexity-and-process-after-deleuze Publisher].
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* with Matthew Fuller, ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 36(6): "Transversal Posthumanities", Nov 2019. [https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/36/6 Publisher].
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* with Rick Dolphijn, ''[http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=586D80B667299E84EFAEB2FE4B091452 Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism]'', Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
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* with Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte, ''More Posthuman Glossary'', Bloomsbury, 2022, 224 pp. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/more-posthuman-glossary-9781350231429/ Publisher].
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===Selected essays===
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* "The Posthuman in Feminist Theory", in ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/161bde10-699e-428e-86b4-c219e3baedc8 The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory]'', eds. Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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* [https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418771486 "A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities"], ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 36(6): "Transversal Posthumanities", Nov 2019, pp 31-61.
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==Interviews==
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* Heather Davis, [http://amodern.net/article/amoderns-thinking-zoe/ "The Amoderns: Thinking with Zoe. A Feature Interview with Rosi Braidotti"], ''Amodern'', Jul 2016.
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==Literature==
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* Bolette Blaagaard, Iris van der Tuin (eds.), ''[https://1lib.sk/book/2613036/f4016a The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts]'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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==Links==
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* [http://www.rosibraidotti.com/ Website]
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* [https://www.uu.nl/staff/RBraidotti Profile on U Utrecht]
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* [http://uu.academia.edu/RosiBraidotti Academia.edu]
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* [https://aaaaarg.fail/maker/5310644d334fe071e0b905fc ARG]
 
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* http://vimeo.com/51895848
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti Wikipedia]
  
 
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Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University.

Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received a First-Class Honours degree from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy and the University Tillyard prize. Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in philosophy in 1981. She has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, when she was appointed as the founding professor in women’s studies. In 1995 she became the founding Director of the Netherlands research school of Women’s Studies, a position she held till 2005. Braidotti is a pioneer in European Women’s Studies: she founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the Thematic Network for Women’s Studies ATHENA, which she directed till 2005. She was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College in 2005-6; a Jean Monnet professor at the European University Institute in Florence in 2002-3 and a fellow in the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1994. She was founding director of the Centre for the Humanities from 2007 until September 2016.

Braidotti’s publications have consistently been placed in continental philosophy, at the intersection with social and political theory, cultural politics, gender, feminist theory and ethnicity studies. The core of her interdisciplinary work consists of four interconnected monographs on the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, with special emphasis on the concept of difference within the history of European philosophy and political theory. Braidotti’s philosophical project investigates how to think difference positively, which means moving beyond the dialectics that both opposes it and thus links it by negation to the notion of sameness. This is evidenced in the philosophical agenda set in her first book Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy (1991), which gets developed further in the trilogy that follows. In the next book, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (1994; 2nd ed., rev. & exp., 2011), the question is formulated in more concrete terms: can gender, ethnic, cultural or European differences be understood outside the straightjacket of hierarchy and binary opposition? Thus the following volume, Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (2002), analyses not only gender differences, but also more categorical binary distinctions between self and other, European and foreign, human and non-human (animal/ environmental/ technological others). The conclusion is that a systematic ambivalence structures contemporary cultural representations of the globalised, technologically mediated, ethnically mixed, gender-aware world we now inhabit. The question consequently arises of what it takes to produce adequate cultural and political representations of a fast-changing world and move closer to Spinozist notions of adequate understanding. The ethical dimension of Braidotti’s work on difference comes to the fore in the last volume of the trilogy, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (2006). Here she surveys the different ethical approaches that can be produced by taking difference and diversity as the main point of reference and conclude that there is much to be gained by suspending belief that political participation, moral empathy and social cohesion can only be produced on the basis of the notion of recognition of sameness. Braidotti makes a case for an alternative view on subjectivity, ethics and emancipation and pitches diversity against the postmodernist risk of cultural relativism while also standing against the tenets of liberal individualism. Throughout her work, Braidotti asserts and demonstrates the importance of combining theoretical concerns with a serious commitment to producing socially and politically relevant scholarship that contributes to making a difference in the world. Braidotti’s output also included several edited volumes. Her work has been translated in more than 20 languages and all the main books in at least three languages other than English.

Influenced by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and especially “French feminist” thinker Luce Irigaray, Braidotti has brought postmodern feminism into the Information Age with her considerations of cyberspace, prosthesis, and the materiality of difference. Braidotti also considers how ideas of gender difference can affect our sense of the human/animal and human/machine divides. Braidotti has also pioneered European perspectives in feminist philosophy and practice and has been influential on third-wave and post-secular feminisms as well as emerging posthumanist thought.

In 2005, Braidotti was honored with a Royal Knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; in 2006 she received the University Medal from the University of Lodz in Poland and she was awarded an Honorary Degree in Philosophy from Helsinki University in 2007. In 2009, she was elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2013 she was awarded an Honorary Degree in Philosophy from Linköping University, Sweden. (2020)

Publications[edit]

(in English unless noted otherwise)

Books[edit]

  • Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy, Polity, 1991; 2nd ed., 1996.
    • Beelden van de leegte: vrouwen in de hedendaagse filosofie, Kampen: Kok Agora, 1991, 319 pp. (Dutch)
    • Riitasointuja, trans. Päivi Kosonen, et al., Tampere: Vastapaino, 1993, 296 pp. (Finnish)
    • Dissonanze: le donne e la filosofia contemporanea : verso una lettura filosofica delle idee femministe, Milan: La Tartaruga, 1994, 286 pp. (Italian)
  • Nomadic Subjects, Columbia University Press, 1994; 2nd ed., rev. & exp., Columbia University Press, 2011.
    • Soggetto nomade: femminismo e crisi della modernità, ed. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Donzelli, 1995, xi+132 pp. (Italian)
    • Sujetos nómades: corporización y diferente sexual en la teoría feminista contemporánea, trans. Alcira Bixio, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2000, 254 pp. (Spanish)
    • Nomadski subjekti: otelotvoruvanje i seksualna razlika vo sovremenata feministicka teorija [Номадски субјекти: отелотворување и сексуална разлика во современата феминистицка теорија] , trans. Aneta Stoiljkoviḱ, Skopje: Makedonska kniga, 2002, 427 pp. (Macedonian)
    • Podmioty nomadyczne: ucieleśnienie i różnica seksualna w feminizmie współczesnym, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, trans. Aleksandra Derra, 2009, 306 pp. (Polish)
    • Νομαδικά Yποκείμενα: Ενσωματότητα και έμφυλη διαφορά στη σύγχρονη φεμινιστική θεωρία, Nissos, 2014. (Greek)
  • Kvinner, miljø og bærekraftig utvikling: mot en teoretisk syntese, trans. Anne Kristine Haugestad, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1994, 320 pp. (Norwegian)
  • Madri, Mostri e Macchine, ed. & postf. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Manifestolibri, 1996, 114 pp; repr., exp., as Madri, Mostri e Macchine. Teratologie cyber, Rome: Manifestolibri, 2005, 143 pp. (Italian)
  • Braidotti, et al., Baby Boomers: Vite parallele dagli anni Cinquanta ai cinquant’anni, Firenze: Giunti, 2003, 191 pp. (Italian)
  • Op doorreis: nomadisch denken in de 21ste eeuw, Boom, 2004. (Dutch)
  • Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Polity, 2006.
    • Trasposizioni: sull'etica nomade, ed. Anna Maria Crispino, Rome: Sossella, 2008, 343 pp. (Italian)
    • Transposiciones: sobre la ética nómada, trans. Alcira Bixio, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2009, 414 pp. (Spanish)
  • Egy nomád térképei: Feminizmus a posztmodern után, trans. Vándor Judit and Agárdi Izabella, Budapest: Balassi, 2007, 136 pp. (Hungarian)
  • La philosophie ...là oú on ne l’attend pas, Paris: Larousse, 2009, 286 pp. (French)
  • The Posthuman, Polity, 2013, 180 pp.
    • Il postumano: la vita oltre l'individuo, oltre la specie, oltre la morte, Rome: Derive Approdi, 2014, 220 pp, EPUB. (Italian)
    • Posthumanismus: Leben jenseits des Menschen, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2014, 214 pp. (German)
    • Insan Sonrasi, Kolektif Kitap Bilişim ve Tasarım, 2014 (Turkish)
    • Po człowieku, trans. Joanna Bednarek and Agnieszka Kowalczyk, forew. Joanna Bednarek, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2014, 389 pp. (Polish)
    • Lo posthumano, trans. Juan Carlos Gentile Vitale, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2015, 253 pp. (Spanish)
    • Le posthumain, Paris: Post éditions, 2015. (French)
    • Hou ren lei [后人类], trans. Gencheng Song, Zheng zhou: He nan da xue chu ban she, 2016, 364 pp. (Chinese)
    • Postumanul, trans. Ovidiu Anemţoaicei, Bucharest: Hecate, 2016, 296 pp. (Romanian)
  • Per una politica affermativa: itinerari etici, ed. & trans. Angela Balzano, Milan: Mimesis, 2017, 162 pp. (Italian)
    • Politik der Affirmation, Berlin: Merve, 2018, 104 pp. (German)
    • Por una política afirmativa: itinerarios éticos, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2018, 190 pp. (Spanish)
  • Les discutides posthumanitats a debat / The Contested Posthumanities, ed. CCCB, trans. Ferran Ràfols Gesa, Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), 2017, 105 pp. (English)/(Catalan)
  • Posthuman Knowledge, Polity, 2019.
    • El conocimiento posthumano, trans. Júlia Ibarz, Barcelona: Gedisa, 2020, 190 pp. (Spanish)
  • Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities, intro. John May, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022, 88 pp. [2]

Edited volumes[edit]

  • Poste restante: feministische berichten aan het postmoderne: naar aanleiding van Donna Haraway's Een cyborg manifest, Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994, 157 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Christina Crosby, Mary Ann Doane, Jose van Dijck, Ruth Oldenziel, Ines Orobio de Castro, Baukje Prins, Inez van der Spek and Ineke van Wingerden. Review: Marianne van Boomen (Groene Amsterdammer). (Dutch)
  • with Nina Lykke, Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace, Zed Books, 1996, 260 pp. Reviews: Dall (Convergence), Gulbrandsen (Kvinneforskning).
  • with Gabriele Griffin, Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women’s Studies, Zed Books, 2002.
  • with Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova, Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example, Utrecht: BAK, and JRP, 2007.
  • with Claire Colebrook, Australian Feminist Studies: "Feminist Timelines", Taylor & Francis, 2009.
  • with Tim Vermeulen, The New Brutality, e-flux, 2017.
  • with Matthew Fuller, Theory, Culture & Society 36(6): "Transversal Posthumanities", Nov 2019. Publisher.
  • with Emily Jones and Goda Klumbyte, More Posthuman Glossary, Bloomsbury, 2022, 224 pp. Publisher.

Selected essays[edit]

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Literature[edit]

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