Cancer Ecologies : A Queer Femme Portal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lykke, Nina.

Series:

Theory in the New Humanities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

A queer femme and critically posthuman inquiry into the more-than-human cancer epidemic.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Principles of Composition and Authorship

Permissions and Reprints

Prologue The Cancer, the Peat Moss, and the Diatom A Queer Femme Tale

1 Queer Companions

From Cancer to Planetary Ethics

Nina's Pathway

Camila's Pathway

Twinned Autophenomenographies and Affecting/Affected Writing: Methodological Reflections

Writing About Cancer/from Within Cancerland

A Queer Femme Portal to a Planetary Eco-ethics of Softness

Book Overview

The Complex "We"

Building Castles in Sand

Interrupter I The Blue Rabbit, Born from a Mountain

2 Cancer Ecologies

Chemical Modernity and Toxification of Environments

Strategic Production of Cancer Ignorance

Cures or Causes: Looking Downstream Rather than Upstream

The Cancer Industry: Who and What Counts as a Profitable Business Case?

Cancer as a Multispecies Epidemic and Planetary Wound

Zooming in on Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Primary Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma)

Nina's Thought Experiment: Potential Pathways to a Primary Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma)

Toxification with DDT?

An Undiscovered Hepatitis Infection?

Aflatoxin?

Postscript

Camila's Thought Experiment: Epstein-Barr Virus and Carcinogenic Herbicides

Part One: Viral Deep Time and Toxic Modernity

Part Two: Growing Up in Glyphosate

Part Three: Speculating Beyond the Clinical Gaze

Part Four: The Embodied Archive

Postscript: Test Bunnies, Scar Tissue, and Refusal of Surplus

Interrupter II A Liver Tumor's Story

3 Cancer as Talent

The Performance Begins (But Not Where You Think)

My Debut as a Cancerous Body

The Hamburger and the Transplant

Let's Talk Sex

So.la

The Dance Is Spherical

Skin Needs to Tear

Grow.

My Face Feels Hot, My Metabolism Is Working

C am I

There Was No Image

Imaginal Planes

Interrupter III Brotherhood

4 A Compassionate Companion's Cancer Contemplations

Journey Through Cancerland, Part One: Hate and Fear

I Hate These Tumors!

The Uncanny Word Metastasis

I.

II.

Coughing Night

Coughing Night I: Emergency Ward-Why Are You Here?

Coughing Night II: To Cross the Wall at Night

Coughing Night III: Not Flying, but Drowning

Cancer as Abject and Uncanny Doppelg ä nger

Journey Through Cancerland, Part Two: Hope and Strength

Instants of Hope

Potentia

Journey Through Cancerland, Part Three: Contemplating Cancer Vitality

Cancerous Walks 2

The Jaguar, the Colibri, and the River

The Conatus of Cancerous Bodies

What I Learned from Rereading Cancerous Walks

What I Learned from Camila's Story about Jaguar, Colibri, and River

Interrupter IV Dreamscapes-A Triptych

I. You Vanish 1

II. Spectral Interferences

III. Joyful Deathworlds

5 The Danger of Being (Me) Model

Interrupter V Cave Interview

The Mouth of the Cave

Voices Without Meaning

The Innermost Chamber

The Split and the Flood of Images

Aftershocks and Interference

Performance and Permission

Echoes and Epilogues

6 My Body Is a Bog

Bog Bending, a Thought Experiment

Soaking Up the Damage

Rehearsing the End

In a Revolution of Moisture

Interrupter VI Summonings

7 Thinking about Cancer Cells, Their Evolution and Ecologies: An Interview Conversation

Opening

Cancer Cells as Decision-Makers

Rethinking Cancer as Evolution Rather than Aberration

Cancer Across Species

Toxic Exposures and Evolutionary Mismatch

Potentials for Supporting Change

Cancer as Portal

Interrupter VII Notes from My Seaside Diary

Entry 1: Swimming in the Sea of Time! 1.

Entry 2: Moments of Panic

Entry 3: Escape from Timeliness?

Entry 4: Diving into Deep-Sea Time

Entry 5: Prayer

Entry 6: Taking Notes from a Greenpeace Response to the Danish Ministry of the Environment's Plan for the Waters of Denmark 2021-7.

Entry 7: Notes for the Queer Death Studies Lexicon

Double Death

Vibrant Death

8 Loving Diatoms-Queering Cancer

Mourning Differently: Abandoning Human Exceptionalism

Mourning Differently: Unfolding a Queerfemme-inine Companionship with Diatoms

Speculating about Cancer Together with Diatoms

Diatom Biology

Cancer, Pathology, and the History of Evolution

De-demonizing Cancer?

What Lessons Can Be Learned?

Interrupter VIII The Weird Recording

The Orgasmic Cosmos: Erotic Communion with More-than-Human Kin

When the World Fucks Back: Experimental Sensualities and Binding

Becoming-Other: Post-cancer Sexuality and the Plasticity of Self

Love-Death, Drowning with Stones, and Vibrant Mourning

Scar Tissue as Archive

9 A Queer Femme Eco-Ethics of Softness

Uncommoning: Tracing Anthropo-Not-Seen Dynamics

Queer Femme-ininity as Thinking Technology

Queer Femmes

An Eco-Ethics of Softness

An Alien Mirror: Soft Politics and Cancer as Talent

Science Fiction and Science Fact: Between Critique and Affirmation

Planetary Continuity

Queer Femme and Posthuman Outro: Two Letters and an Open-Ended Proposition

Queer Femme and Critical Posthuman Orientation Guide

Epilogue

Softness: A Meditation in Two Unison Voices

Notes

References

Index.

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ISBN:

1-350-50462-9

OCLC:

1587073911