In the Posthumanism of Rosi Braidotti., in a sense she says that "human" has not been a neutral term. But her position here is based on these things: 1) Being human is a contested field, there has never been a consensus on what being human is, 1A) modernity lead to the creation of universal declaration of human rights, but men got the rights, women, blacks, jews, etc did not get the human rights in her mind. She goes on to say that during the French Revolution Olympe de Gouges wrote a universal declaration of women's rights, and pretty immediately she was sent to the guillotine and killed for this act. 2) Because of above, she claims that notions of human contain relationships that contain power, inclusion, and exclusion. "The point in common to all poststructuralist philosophies is that ethics is not confired to the realm of rights, distributive justice, or the law. It rather bears close links with the notions of political agency, freedom, and the management of ...
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