UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Posthuman Studies Lab
Outimaija Hakala
Outimaija Hakala is a visual artist and an art historian, who is working as a sculptor and writer in animal questions in contemporary arts. She is Doctor candidate in Aalto University and doing her PhD "How to respect and take animal subect into consideration in visual arts?" based on artistic research and view from critical animal studies and posthumanism . Within her research work, she is a member of multidisciplinary research and artist group working with questions how to disclose other animals?
4- one or two questions around the subjects to share with everyone for the panel discussion.
Can we say that we are posthumans if we use other animals?
Is there space for subjects in posthumanism – what is moral value of a subject in posthumanism?
Ants – more than human languages
Ants is a project about animal languages. How are animals, plants, and all non-human nature talking and representing themselves? At least some of them have their own language and marks, mostly non-linguistic forms of communication. View from human language is usually understood by linguistic systems. In posthumanism we need to think more openly about what language is. If we recognize languages by other species we can learn more about communication and connections between all living beings. Begin with others, deeply equal with non-humans.