Arguments for a Postsocial and Posthumanistic Sociology

Abstract

My aim in this paper is to articulate and develop several arguments for a posthumanist, sociological perspective in which society is not confined within, and identified as, national space or defined as aggregation or structural determination of human beings. My first argument is a plea for a new social transition from the modern idea of association to the idea of a not human-centred assemblage, like we moved from community to society. In order make it easier to assume the social agency of objects I help to get ride of the anti-fetishism bias in social sciences and show, at the same time, how the logic of technoscience, in which researchers and scientific objects are mutually constituted, is pervading the whole social reality. Last, but not least, I undertake a brief presentation of the constructive side of posthumanism in Sociology.