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A feminist companion to the posthumanities / Cecilia �Asberg, Rosi Braidotti, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanities--Philosophy.
- Humanities.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
- Summary:
- This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities. It contains a collection of nineteen new and original short chapters introducing influential concepts, ideas and approaches that have shaped and developed new materialism, inhuman theory, critical posthumanism, feminist materialism, and posthuman philosophy.
- Contents:
- Feminist posthumanities: an introduction / Cecelia Asberg and Rosi Braidotti
- Passionately posthuman: from feminist disidentifications to postdisciplinary posthumanities / Nina Lykke
- Posthuman sexuality: from ahumanity to cosmogenic desire / Patricia MacCormack
- Material feminism in the anthropocene / Stacy Alaimo
- Posthuman phenomenologies for planetary bodies of water / Astrida Neimanis
- Couch grass: ethics of the rhizome / Barbara Bolt
- Algorithmic tumult and the brilliance of Chelsea Manning / Matthew Fuller
- Embodying the posthuman subject: digital humanities and permeable material practice / Lissa Holloway-Attaway
- Sonic performance and feminist posthumanities: democracy of resonance and machinic sounds / Milla Tiainen
- Intersections: the animal question meets feminist theory / Lynda Birke and Tora Holmberg
- Archaeological posthumanities: feminist re-invention of science and material pasts / Christina Fredengren
- On preparations: engaging with inhuman materialities / Myra J. Hird
- Queer disability, postcolonial feminism and the monsters of evolution / Donna McCormack
- Re/membering the body / Margrit Shildrick
- (3z (BLet me show you (3y: (Ba caring ethnography of embodied knowledge in weaving and engineering / Tania Perez-Bustos
- Anatomical assemblages: medical technologies, bodies and their entangled practices / Ericka Johnson
- Practising ambivalence: the feminist politics of engaging with technoscience / Celia Roberts
- The fabrication of a new materialisms researcher subjectivity / Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
- Posthumanist performativity: toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319621388
- 3319621386
- OCLC:
- 989966289
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