# Rosi Braidotti [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti) (1954– ) ## Description Italian-Australian philosopher known for posthumanism, nomadic subjectivity, and feminist critical theory; her work reframes the subject as embodied, relational, and non-unitary against humanist models of a stable, bounded self, extending Deleuzian thought into contemporary posthumanist and new-materialist theory. ## Key Tags #posthumanism #philosophy #theorist #feminist ## Essential Works - [Nomadic Subjects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti) (1994) - foundational statement of nomadic subjectivity as a feminist, anti-essentialist model of embodied identity - [The Posthuman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti) (2013) - widely cited synthesis of posthumanist theory across philosophy, science, and the humanities - [Metamorphoses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Braidotti) (2002) - extends nomadic theory toward the posthuman and technology ## Details Trained in continental philosophy (PhD, Sorbonne) under a strong Deleuzian influence; her "nomadic subject" reframes identity as processual and embodied rather than fixed, a model she extends through *The Posthuman* into a broader critique of anthropocentrism, Eurocentrism, and humanist exceptionalism across the arts, sciences, and politics. Longtime director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, a major European hub for posthumanist and critical theory. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Affirmative Posthumanism]] - a central contemporary theorist of posthumanism, reframing the subject beyond humanist and anthropocentric models - [[Philosophy]] - extends Deleuzian and feminist philosophy into nomadic and posthumanist theory ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Utrecht University - founding director of the Centre for the Humanities ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Braidotti, Rosi. *The Posthuman*. Polity Press, 2013. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%