Rhythm and Geo-bio-techno-politicsJohn Protevi, Louisiana State University

Posthuman Antiquities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference | November 14-15, 2014 Hemmerdinger Hall, The Silver Center for Arts & Science, New York University Panel IV, November 15, 2014 Rhythm and Geo-bio-techno-politics—John Protevi, Louisiana State University The Choric Con-sociality of Nonhuman Life—Mark Payne, University of Chicago Moderator: Deme Kasimis (Political Science, Yale University) What can an inquiry into antiquity offer posthumanist thinking on the body, on nature and its relationship with technology, and on the fundamental interrelatedness of the physical, the biological, the psychical, the social and the artifactual? Greek and Roman literary, philosophical, and medical texts are resplendent with sites in which “materiality” and “embodiment” (in current parlance) erupt into a field of questioning, deliberation, care, and experimentation. A return to antiquity is particularly pertinent in the wake of the philosophical demise of the sovereignty of the modern indiv