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A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
Title
A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities [electronic resource] / edited by Cecilia Åsberg, Rosi Braidotti.
ISBN
9783319621401
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (X, 245 p.) 14 illus.
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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. A resource for students and teachers, this comprehensive volume brings together established international scholars and emerging theorists, for timely and astute definitions of a moving target – posthuman humanities and feminist posthumanities.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2018
Contents
1. Feminist Posthumanities: An Introduction
2. Passionately Posthuman: From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities
3. Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire
4. Material Feminism in the Anthropocene
5. Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water
6.Couch grass: Ethics of the Rhizome
7. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning
8. Embodying the Posthuman Subject: Digital Humanities and Permeable Material Practice
9. Sonic Performance and Feminist Posthumanities: Democracy of Resonance and Machinic Sounds
10. Intersections: The Animal Question meets Feminist Theory
11. Archaeological Posthumanities: Feminist Re-invention of Science and Material Pasts
12. On Preparations: Engaging with Inhuman Materialities
13. Queer Disability, Postcolonial Feminism and the Monsters of Evolution
14. Re/membering the body
15. “Let me show you”: A caring ethnography of embodied knowledge in weaving and engineering
16. Anatomical Assemblages: Medical Technologies, Bodies and their Entangled Practices
17. Practising Ambivalence: The Feminist Politics of Engaging with Technoscience
18. The Fabrication of a New Materialisms Researcher Subjectivity
19. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.
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