Posthumanist aesthetics

Antonio Strati

Chapter 80 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 301-305 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry explores the new awareness that posthumanist aesthetics brings to the understanding and management of innovation in organizational life. Posthumanist aesthetics emphasizes sensible knowing, aesthetic judging, and the metaphorical and poetic comprehension of innovation. It focuses on the predisposition of the human body to hybridization with other corporealities – nonhuman animals, plant life and nature in general – and with the sociomateriality of organizational artefacts. Posthumanist aesthetics stimulates organizational researchers to investigate the daily metamorphosis of human sensible knowing and aesthetic judging. The entry takes into consideration two cases in particular: medicine and posthumanist design practices. Medicine because human corporeality is highly hybridized due to the digital translation of the human body into data and information which gives it virtual corporeality. Posthumanist design practices because they aim to decentralize the human in the innovation of organizational life.

Keywords: Hybridization of aesthetic feelings; Organizational aesthetic research; Organizational posthumanist aesthetics; Posthumanist aesthetic philosophy; Posthumanist design practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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