Summer Travelling with Posthumanism

Abstract

Summer travels with posthumanism is an experimental piece of prose and praxis. It aims to map out the influence and effect of post humanism on systemic practice, by following and presenting the authors use of the ideas over a period of (summer) time. Examples of lived experience, intertwine with playful representations of sea and critters, and case work is considered through posthuman theory and concepts.

What emerges is a ‘composting’ of ideas and the proposal of a slow ontology, alongside an approach that embraces the “tentacular”; a trying feeling and relational being (not singular), with others, in trying feeling and relational worlds (Haraway 2016).

The author is writing from her position as a white woman and a systemic psychotherapist, situated predominantly in London, UK. Her ambition is to bring the often separate parts of the therapist (the ‘re-source’ of personally felt, relational experience, the overlooked detail of living, and the intertwining ecology) onto the academic stage and to suggest expansive and response-able ways of developing systemic thinking and practice.