A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities

1. Front Matter

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2. Feminist Posthumanities: An Introduction

   • Cecilia Åsberg, Rosi Braidotti

   Pages 1-22

3. Passionately Posthuman: From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities

   • Nina Lykke

   Pages 23-33

4. Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire

   • Patricia MacCormack

   Pages 35-43

5. Material Feminism in the Anthropocene

   • Stacy Alaimo

   Pages 45-54

6. Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water

   • Astrida Neimanis

   Pages 55-66

7. Couch Grass: Ethics of the Rhizome

   • Barbara Bolt

   Pages 67-80

8. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning

   • Matthew Fuller

   Pages 81-89

9. Embodying the Posthuman Subject: Digital Humanities and Permeable Material Practice

   • Lissa Holloway-Attaway

   Pages 91-101

10. Sonic Performance and Feminist Posthumanities: Democracy of Resonance and Machinic Sounds

    • Milla Tiainen

    Pages 103-115

11. Intersections: The Animal Question Meets Feminist Theory

    • Lynda Birke, Tora Holmberg

    Pages 117-128

12. Archaeological Posthumanities: Feminist Re-invention of Science and Material Pasts

    • Christina Fredengren

    Pages 129-140

13. On Preparations: Engaging with Inhuman Materialities

    • Myra J. Hird

    Pages 141-152

14. Queer Disability, Postcolonial Feminism and the Monsters of Evolution

    • Donna McCormack

    Pages 153-164

15. Re/membering the Body

    • Margrit Shildrick

    Pages 165-174

16. “Let Me Show You”: A Caring Ethnography of Embodied Knowledge in Weaving and Engineering

    • Tania Pérez-Bustos

    Pages 175-187

17. Anatomical Assemblages: Medical Technologies, Bodies and their Entangled Practices

    • Ericka Johnson

    Pages 189-197

18. Practising Ambivalence: The Feminist Politics of Engaging with Technoscience

    • Celia Roberts

    Pages 199-210

19. The Fabrication of a New Materialisms Researcher Subjectivity

    • Hillevi Lenz Taguchi

    Pages 211-221

20. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter

    • Karen Barad

    Pages 223-239

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.

• Environmental humanities
• biomolecular archeology
• post-structuralisms
• posthuman subjects and methods
• posthumanism
• trans-corporeal posthumanism

• Tema; Gender Studies (Tema Genus), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  Cecilia Åsberg

• Centre for Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Rosi Braidotti

Cecilia Åsberg, Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Tema Genus, Linköping University, is the founding director of The Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. She teaches, collaborates and publishes essays in the intersections of gender studies and feminist theory, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies and other forms of posthumanities such as medical, digital and environmental humanities. Recent publications include Debates in Nordic Gender Studies: Differences Within; Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity, with Ericka Johnson and Ebba Sjögren; Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter; Animal Places, with Tora Holmberg and Jacob Bull. Åsberg is Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Trandisciplinary Gender Studes. 

 

Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Honorary Degrees Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013) is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her latest books are: Conflicting Humanities (co-edited with Paul Gilroy), London: Bloomsbury, 2016; The Posthuman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013; Nomadic Subjects, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 (second, revised ed.) and Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, Columbia University Press, 2011.