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- Fredengren, Christina
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Archaeological Posthumanities : Feminist Re-invention of Science and Material Pasts
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 129-140
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with how post-humanism may change how to approach archaeological bodies, through an engagement with biomolecular sciences. For example, isotope analysis can be used to trace the interchange between body and environment and hence provides an insight into what could be called the archaeological landscape within the body. This landscape is a situated gathering of different materialities, temporalities and relations. Also, archaeological bodies can be captured as enabling or restricting figurations, and there is a need to carry on critical discussions about essentialist understanding of scientific results. Furthermore, such discussions can also feed into how post humanism to engage in discussions of “deep time” entanglements in the bodies, that may project life/death nexuses in unexpected ways, stitching through past/present/futures.
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- Johnson, Ericka, 1973-
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Anatomical assemblages : medical technologies, bodies and their entangled practices
- 2018
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Ingår i: A feminist companion to the posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 189-197
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sometimes in medicine it is hard to see what you want to examine. Sometimes it is even hard to feel what you want to touch. The female reproductive tract is an example of anatomical structures that can be hard to examine with the bare eyes and even the bare hands. It can be hard to see them, feel them, examine them to determine their shape, their size, if they have growths in or on them, if they are healthy or diseased. A doctor’s fingers and hands can approach them, and other technologies—like ultrasound wands and various scans—can be used to create images of the parts to complement the tactile impressions the doctor collects during a manual examination. But knowing what they are, knowing them, is a complex practice.What this chapter considers is how the patient body is a knowledge phenomenon emerging within the medical practices used to examine it and through the technologies used to model it.
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- Lenz Taguchi, Hillevi, 1962-
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The Fabrication of a New Materialisms Researcher Subjectivity
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 211-221
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to explore how to think about researcher subjectivity in another way informed by the feminist posthumanist philosophies of Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Isabelle Stengers and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. In contrast to subjectivity understood in the feminist poststructural sense as performative and discursively inscribed, researchers doing what presently is understood in terms of New Materialisms research (Åsberg et al. 2011; Dolphijn and van der Tuin 2012) can be seen to fabricate for themselves affectively engaged Bodies without Organs (BwOs) (Deleuze and Guattari 1987). Colebrook writes that the figuration of the BwO is counter-normative in relation to dominating views of subjectivity (2014, 23). It offers a reversal of the taken for granted organicist idea that bodies take on a function to become what they are meant to be in relation to a whole. Instead, a Body without Organs suggests that there can be a body without...
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- Lykke, Nina, 1949-
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Passionately Posthuman : From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 23-33
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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- Shildrick, Margrit, 1949-
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Re/membering the Body
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 165-174
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- My chapter traces the development and implications of re/membering the body, following on from the somatophobia of early 2nd wave feminist scholarship that saw attention to bodily matters as a potential point of hostile ambush. Where the conventional tropes of modernism insist on a conceptual split between mind and body, and recognize only one form of ‘proper’ embodiment, postmodernist thought has supported a reinstatement of the corporeal. The turn away from the rigid binaries of dominant ways of thinking – whether in the humanities or sciences – has mobilised not simply the emergence of a feminist phenomenology of embodiment, but a growing appreciation of the place of the sciences in understanding the materiality of the body. At the same time, the extension of challenging bioscientific technologies directed to the body and its practices indicates that the recovery of fleshiness is not a final step. More radically, contemporary bioscience demands a reconsideration of what it means to be human. My approach relies on the concept of leaky bodies and stresses that instability and fluidity are the catalyst for alternative, more productive ways of thinking about corporeality and embodied subjectivity. As the boundaries of the body and of the human are ever more contested, it becomes clearer why the resulting sense of exposure to otherness in all its forms, and the inherent vulnerability of the contingent self, necessitate a new configuration of bioethics. The encounter with otherness –those unlike myself in terms of morphology or putative origin; prosthetic supplementarity; or the intracorporeality of the microbiome - speak to a corporeal ethics that understands risk and vulnerability as the very possibility of becoming.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-, et al.
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Feminist posthumanities : an introduction
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Ingår i: A feminist companion to the posthumanities. - New York, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London : Springer. - 9783319621388 - 9783319621401 ; , s. 1-22
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, Åsberg and Braidotti, delineates the geneaologies of feminist posthumanities, drawing on cultural theory, philosophy, science and technology studies but also environmental, medical and digital humanities as these are enlivningen the contemporary interdisciplinary humanities with critique, creativity and curiosity.
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