Post-convergent

Post-convergent literally means "after convergence". Theories of Post Convergence draw on the Material philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri, explicated in A Thousand Plateaus: Anti Oedipus, and its later companion volume A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The basic concept is to use material thinking to re-examine ontological problems of being. Post Convergence sets itself against a Cartesian world view, summarised but the edict 'I Think Therefore I am.' Post convergence interpolates materialist notions of embodied interaction, examining that way that our behaviours, processes and presence in a material world co-shape our relations with each other, our environment, our tools and systems.

Following on from Gilles Deleuze’s conception of the relations between differential elements in an assemblage or agencement, theories of Post Convergence argue for a need to use material thinking to interrogate dualistic thinking, for example exemplified by the socially constructed polar oppositions such as nature/culture, mind/body, subject/object, inside/outside. Viewing these positions as situated in a shifting network of relations, rather than as fixed oppositions in an ontological scheme, is key to Post Convergent thought. Post Convergent thinking utilises a Transdisciplinary methodology.