Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-350-11255-1
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 355 g

Reihe: Environmental Cultures

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them - from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.

Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neimanis, Astrida

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION: Figuring Bodies of Water

Bodies of Water (A Genealogy of a Figuration)

Posthuman Feminism for the Anthropocene

Living with the Problem

Water is What We Make It

The Possibility of Posthuman Phenomenology



CHAPTER ONE: Embodying Water: Feminist Phenomenology for Posthuman Worlds

A Posthuman Politics of Location

Milky Ways: Tracing Posthuman Feminisms

How to Think (About) a Body of Water: Posthuman Phenomenology Between Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

How to Think (As) a Body of Water: Access, Amplify, Describe!

Posthuman Ties in a Too-Human World



CHAPTER TWO: Posthuman Gestationality: Luce Irigaray and Water's Queer Repetitions

Hydrological Cycles

Elemental Bodies: Irigaray as Posthuman Phenomenologist?

Love Letters to Watery Others: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

Gestationality as (Sexuate) Difference and Repetition

The Onto-Logic of Amniotics (Queering Water's Repetitions)

Bodies of Water Beyond Humanism



CHAPTER THREE: Fishy Beginnings

Other Evolutions

Dissolving Origin Stories

Carrier Bags and Hypersea

Wet Sex

Waters Remembered (Moving Below the Surface)

Unknowability as Planetarity (Or, Becoming the Water that We Cannot Become)

Aspiration, That Oceanic Feeling



CHAPTER FOUR: Imagining Water in the Anthropocene

Prologue / Kwe

Swimming into the Anthropocene

Learning from Anti-Colonial Waters

Water is Life? Commodity, Charity and Other Repetitions

Material Imaginaries and Other Aqueous Questions



REFERENCES

NOTES

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Neimanis, Astrida
Astrida Neimanis is Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney Australia. She is the co-editor of Thinking With Water (2013).