The Posthuman Epistemology of Transformative Theories. The contribution of Posthuman Feminism

This conceptual paper explores the contribution that Posthuman Feminism—as conceptualized by Braidotti (2022, 2019, 2013)—offers to Transformative Learning Theories. We propose a reflection around the possibility of developing non-constructivist and non-humanist assumptions underpinning Transformative Learning Theories. In this endeavor, the argumentation unfolds in three steps: (1) first, a critique to discursive pattern of social constructivist paradigm that upholds binary distinctions, such as between nature/culture, nature/technology, human/nonhuman, subject/object, mind/body, masculinity/femininity, and so on, is presented; (2) secondly, the internal contradictions and external exclusions that have always composed the humanistic view of the human subject are reconstructed; and, (3) finally, it is argued in favor of a Posthuman Feminist reading of Transformative Learning conceptual device and it is shown in what sense and to what extent the Posthuman Feminism can be appropriated to transformative epistemologies.