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- Berger, Erich, et al.
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Editorial: State of the Art
- 2023
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Ingår i: State of the Art: Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing. - Helsinki : Bioart Society. ; , s. 8-17
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“Letter to a Grain of Wheat”
- 2021
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- The piece is a contribution to the art project Seeding Stories: A Guide to the Interior of a Salt Water Crocodile (2019) by Migrant Ecologies Project, placed in The Svalbard Seed Cultures Ark, Svalbard, Norway in 2019: https://seeding-stories.org/Marietta-Radomska . The project, including Radomska's piece, has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, issue 54 / summer 2021, pp. 202-203
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- Lykke, Nina, 1949-, et al.
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Queer Death: Challenging Conventional Ontologies, Norms, and Images of Death, Dying and Mourning
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Embodied and institutionalized discourses and practices related to death,dying and mourning are pervaded by normativities and regulations,framed by intersecting power differentials related to gender, sexuality,race, class, religion, but also to the life/death binary and to materialagencies not so commonly included in discussions of intersectionality suchas liminality, killability, uncontainability, and vibrancy. These norms andregulations have often been left unproblematized by otherwise criticalintellectuals, including academic feminists, perhaps because the situationswhere these issues materialize as crucial on personal levels also oftenare situations, where people are most vulnerable and literally pushed tothe borders of ‘the Real’, and where well known symbolic grounds do notcount anymore.The panel aims to generate new discussions around these issues, criticallyand (self) reflexively scrutinizing and challenging conventionalnormativities, assumptions, expectations and regimes of truths that arebrought to life or made evident by death, dying and mourning.The panel will among others problematize grief-related normativityas well as the anti-grief and sadness norm carried by goal-oriented,neoliberal rationality. This includes examining how sadness, memorializationand non-acceptance can be performed and articulated asresistance against prescribed ways of mourning and being a mourner.Moreover, the panel will explore how boundaries between life/theliving and death/the dead are drawn, conceptualized and imagined, andwhat these boundary-shaping practices reveal about the role of religion,tradition, science, economy, and so on. Often sharp dichotomies areutilized to make sense of the relationship between life/death, the living/the dead, animate/inanimate, and of ethical distinctions bound to normsrelated human exceptionalism, contrasted by the precarious status oflives not counted within such norms. However, in some contexts suchdichotomies are nuanced and deconstructed. Concepts like absencepresence,liminality and social death, have, for example, been used indeath studies to address the false simplicity of the pre/post-mortem divide, while some bioart practices have created artworks on the boundariesbetween living and non-living meant to prompt new reflections on these.
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- MacCormack, Patricia, et al.
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What do we talk about when we talk about queer death? Theories and definitions
- 2021
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Ingår i: Whatever: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies. - : Universita degli Studi di Pisa. - 2611-657X. ; 4, s. 573-598
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is part 1 of 6 of the dossier What Do We Talk about when We Talk about Queer Death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology and queer theory and tackle questions such as: how can we define queer death studies as a research field? How can queer death studies problematize and rethink the life-death binary? Which notions and hermeneutic tools could be borrowed from other disciplines in order to better define queer death studies?The present article includes the following contributions: – MacCormack P., What does queer death studies mean?; – Radomska M., On queering death studies; – Lykke N., Death as vibrancy; – Hillerup Hansen I., What concreteness will do to resolve the uncertain; – Olson P., Queer objectivity as a response to denials of death; – Manganas N., The queer lack of a chthonic instinct.
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More-than-human humanities : A Focus Book Series
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- BOOK SERIES More Than Human HumanitiesThe More-Than-Human Humanities focus series aims to attend to human differences entangled with environmental justice, information technologies, AI, synthetic biology, surveillance systems, species extinction, and drastic ecological change. It draws attention not only to the creativity and potentiality of this reinvention of arts and humanities, but also to that which limits or wounds conditions of life on earth. It addresses the question of how we may learn to live with those wounds and limitations in everyday practice. The titles in the series provide insight into the state-of-the art humanities research in a changing world.First book of this series, Extracting Reconciliation (out Sep 2023), is written by Myra Hird and Hillary Predco. Extracting Reconciliation: Indigenous Lands, (In)human Wastes, and Colonial Reckoning (full title of book 1 in this series) argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.Series Editors: Cecilia Åsberg and Marietta Radomska, Linköping University, Sweden
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Between Crisis Imaginaries and Arts of Eco-Grief
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the Anthropocene, the epoch of climate change and environmental destruction that render certain habitats unliveable and induce socio-economic inequalities and shared ‘more-than-human’ vulnerabilities, death and loss become urgent environmental concerns. As climate scientists indicate, in order to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), a much more radical transformative action is needed from all stakeholders: governments, the private sector, communities and individuals (Höhne et al. 2020). Simultaneously, climate change, wars – as it is painfully manifested through the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine – and unsustainable living conditions contribute to the mortality and suffering of humans and nonhumans, destruction of entire ecosystems and populations, loss of biodiversity, the sixth mass extinction, and ‘slow’ – as well as very abrupt – environmental violence (Nixon 2011; Neimanis 2020; Åsberg & Radomska 2021). All of these evoke feelings of anger, anxiety and grief, manifested both globally and locally in popular-scientific narratives, cultural and artistic expressions, and environmental activism.This paper explores crisis imaginaries linked to more-than-human death, dying and extinction, as well as questions of ecological grief (or eco-grief), which the former are inherently entwined with. After unpacking the genealogy of the concept of eco-grief and its interlinked notions, I briefly sketch out the theoretical framework of Queer Death Studies, which this presentation is grounded in, and subsequently I look at several examples of contemporary bio-, eco-and media art that mobilise and – at times – subvert the notions of and mourning the more-than-human.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Between Terminal Ecologies and Arts of Eco-Grief: A Queering Reflection
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While the notion of bereavement linked to the death of a human or to the loss of that which hasalready passed are societally accepted or even expected, the mourning of nonhuman death andecological loss has a rather different status. It is frequently described as ‘disenfranchised grief’(Doka 1989): not openly accepted or acknowledged in society. Simultaneously, in the presentanthropocenic context, where planetary environmental destruction generates unliveable spacesand amplifies ‘more-than-human’ vulnerabilities, the killing of nonhuman populations, annihilationof entire ecosystems and species extinction catalyse discussions among scientists, legal experts,activists and general society. Yet, it is not only natural-scientific and legal, but also philosophical,artistic and cultural understandings of death and eco-grief that are urgently needed. Grounded inQDS, this talk zooms in on the imaginaries and engagements with more-than-human death, as theyare interwoven through the tissues of select contemporary artworks, where ecological ontologyof death is being exposed and where ethical territories of eco-grief and mourning the more-thanhuman unfold.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Biopolityka : Od Michela Foucaulta do Giorgio Agambena
- 2010
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Ingår i: Estetyka i Krytyka. - Krakow, Poland : Jagiellonian University Press. - 1643-1243. ; 2:Suppl. 2, s. 147-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this article is to examine the concept of biopolitics - a form of power/politics the object of which is the very biological life (Aristotle's zoe ) of the human species. Although the term of biopolitics was employed for the first time at the beginning of the 20th century by a Swedish theorist, Rudolf Kjellén, it is Michel Foucault who thoroughly discussed it and conducted its genealogy. Taking Foucault's analyses as my point of departure, I will examine Giorgio Agamben's negative idea of biopolitics (tanathopolitics) that sets a threshold below which life can be annihilated with impunity. Finally, I will raise the question of the possibility of an affirmative biopolitics.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Braidotti/Haraway : Perspektywa Posthumanizmu
- 2010
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Ingår i: Nowa Krytyka. - Szczecin, Poland : Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego / Scientific Publishing House of the University of Szczecin. - 0867-647X. ; :24-25, s. 57-74
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- The article analyses philosophical premises of the feminist posthumanist ethical project, while drawing on the theories of Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway.
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- Radomska, Marietta
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Deterritorialising Death: On Feminist Biophilosophy as a Queer(ing) Methodology
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper stems from a larger project, set against the backdrop of contemporary discursive and material unfoldings of the environmental crises as well as their accompanying cultural and scientific imaginaries.In the project, I ask what happens when contemporary art (especially body, eco- and bioart) – in a dialogue with feminist materialist philosophies – is mobilised in order to challenge the conventional (i.e. anchored in the Western tradition of the autonomous (exclusively) human subject) understandings of death, and assess multiple vulnerabilities and power differentials that form part of the materialisations of ecologies of death in the context of the Anthropocene.In other words, the project examines how contemporary art read through the lens of feminist materialist philosophies (e.g. Colebrook, MacCormack, Grosz) may – and do – queer, that is, unsettle, subvert and exceed binaries, given norms, normativities, and conventions that frame and govern the bodies and processes constitutive of death, extinction and annihilation, especially in the given environmental context.In order to do so, we need an adequate set of tools. In the present paper, I argue for a tripartite methodology that queers the traditional human-exceptionalist concept of death: (1) feminist biophilosophy as an examination that does not search for an ‘essence’ of life, but instead focuses on the processes that take life beyond itself; (2) ‘the non/living’ (Radomska 2016) as a way to conceptualise death/life entanglement; and (3) queer vitalism as a ground for aesthetics (Colebrook 2014). By discussing each of these components and employing them in the analysis of select artworks (e.g. by Australian artist Svenja Kratz), I hope to open up a space for discussion on this queer(ing) methodology’s potential for mobilising a novel feminist-materialist understanding of both ontology and ethics of death.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Deterritorialising Death: Queerfeminist Biophilosophy and Ecologies of the Non/Living in Contemporary Art
- 2020
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Ingår i: Australian feminist studies (Print). - : Taylor & Francis. - 0816-4649 .- 1465-3303. ; 35:104, s. 116-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the contemporary context of environmental crises and the degradation of resources, certain habitats become unliveable, leading to the death of individuals and species extinction. Whilst bioscience emphasises interdependency and relationality as crucial characteristics of life shared by all organisms, Western cultural imaginaries tend to draw a thick dividing line between humans and nonhumans, particularly evident in the context of death. On the one hand, death appears as a process common to all forms of life; on the other, as an event that distinguishes human from other organisms. Against this background, this article explores how contemporary art—in particular, the series of works The Absence of Alice (2008–2011) by Australian new-media and bioartist Svenja Kratz—challenges the normative and human-exceptionalist concept of death. By employing queerfeminist biophilosophy as a strategy that focuses on relations, processes and transformations instead of ‘essences’, the article examines the ways Kratz’s works deterritorialise the conventional concept of death. In this way, it hopes to attend to the intimacies between materialities of a human and nonhuman kind that form part of the processes of death and dying, and what follows, to reframe ethico-ontology of death as material and processual ecologies of the non/living.
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- Radomska, Marietta, et al.
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Doing Away with Life? : On Biophilosophy, the Non/Living, Toxic Embodiment, and Reimagining Ethics
- 2020. - 1000
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Ingår i: Art as We Don’t Know It. - Aalto : Aalto ARTS Books. ; , s. 54-63
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of life has been in the centre of attention since the inception of Western philosophy, including the pre-Socratics search for the essence of life to Aristitle's "psukhe" with its own capacity for self-nourishment, growth and decay and Kant's take on life as the question of the human subject engaging with life as an object of thought. Philosophical queries into the question of life also however asks what critical relations are precluded in the very classifications of what gets to count as life and not-life. Process ontological philosophies, after Canguilheim and Foucault, have reformulated the life/non-life issue on terms of ontological politics and ethics with key concepts such as "necropolitics" (Mbebe), "bare life" and "thanatopolitics" (Agamben). Bioart and feminist biophilosophy (Radomska) offers new challenges to the taken-for-granted notion of life and introduces the concept of "non/living". Examples are given from feminist environmental humanities research on toxic embodiment and from feminist science studies on laboratory practices of life and killing. A suggestion is made that these two concepts, toxic embodiment and non/living work as biophilosophical tools of analysis and exploration. This because they redirect our attention from essences and norms to processes, potentials and possibilities of living and dying in the here and now.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning: A Biophilosophy of Non/Living Arts
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research in Arts and Education. - Helsinki : Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art and Media. - 2670-2142. ; 2023:2, s. 7-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the present condition of planetary environmental crises, violence, and war, entire ecosystems are annihilated, habitats turn into unliveable spaces, and shared “more-than-human” vulnerabilities get amplified. Here and now, death and loss become urgent environmental concerns, while the Anthropocene-induced anxiety, anger, and grief are manifested in popular-scientific narratives, art, culture, and activism.Grounded in the theoretical framework of queer death studies, this article explores present grief imaginaries and engagements with more-than-human death, dying, and extinction, as they are interwoven through contemporary art. It is there where an ecological ontology of death is being exposed and ethical territories of eco-grief unfold.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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Ecologies of Death, Ecologies of Mourning: Biophilosophical Assemblages of Non/Living Arts
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the present condition of planetary environmental disruption, including both slow and abrupt violence (Nixon 2011; Neimanis 2020) and even war, entire ecosystems are being annihilated, habitats turned into unlivable spaces, socio-economic inequalities intensified, and shared, more-than-human vulnerabilities amplified. Here and now, death and loss become urgent environmental concerns. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Queer Death Studies and particularly in the concept of the “deterritorialization of death” (Radomska 2020), this talk explores contemporary crisis imaginaries and engagements with more-than-human death, dying, and extinction as they are woven through the tissue of contemporary bio-, eco- and new-media art. It is in these spaces of (non)living artworks that conventional frames of human exceptionalism are questioned, ecological ontology of death exposed, and ethical territories of ecological grief and mourning the more-than-human unfold.
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- Radomska, Marietta
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Ecologies of Death: On the Non/Living and Bioart
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While the contemporary context of environmental crises and the accompanying degradation of food and water resources render certain habitats unliveable, leading to the death of individual organisms, populations and species extinction, Western cultural imaginaries tend to draw a thick dividing line between the human and nonhuman others. It is in death specifically that the human (of the humanities and social sciences, in particular) fences himself off from other forms of life: it is essentially human death that deserves individual attention and respect, which, for example, substantially differ from the usual treatment of dead animal bodies. Simultaneously, bioscience and biotechnologies emphasise interdependency and relationality as key characteristics of life shared by all organisms. In this paper I focus on the ways select examples of contemporary bioart may allow us to reinvent our approach to death and think its ethico-ontology as multiplex ecologies of the non/living
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Entanglements of the Victimless Leather Jacket : Waste, Death, and the Uncontainability of the Living”
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the context of bioscience (as much as in the field of bioart) that engages with tissue bioengineering, the life of the cultured cells is closely intertwined with the issues of biohazardous waste, contagion, death, and control (over the manipulated ‘living’). While looking at one of the exhibitions during which Australian bioartists The Tissue Culture & Art Project showed their ‘semi-living’ sculpture the Victimless Leather Jacket, which unexpectedly became contaminated with fungi, I will examine the material-discursive entanglements of the ideas of death, life, and the uncontainability of the latter that are enacted through the bioartwork as well as bioartistic practices in a broader sense.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Etyka Nomadyczna a Bioart
- 2008
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Ingår i: Dzieło sztuki z perspektywy kulturowej. - Torun, Poland : Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPress, Torun, Poland. - 9788323122982 ; , s. 157-169
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-, et al.
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Fathoming Postnatural Oceans : Towards a low trophic theory in the practices of feminist posthumanities
- 2022
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Ingår i: Environment and Planning E. - : Sage Publications. - 2514-8486 .- 2514-8494. ; 5:3, s. 1428-1445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the planet’s largest ecosystem, oceans stabilise climate, produce oxygen, store CO2 and host unfathomable biodiversity at a deep time-scale. In recent decades, scientific assessments have indicated that the oceans are seriously degraded to the detriment of most near-future societies. Human-induced impacts range from climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, eutrophication and marine pollution to local degradation of marine and coastal environments. Such environmental violence takes form of both ‘spectacular’ events, like oil spills and ‘slow violence’, occurring gradually and out of sight. The purpose of this paper is to show four cases of coastal and marine forms of slow violence and to provide counter-accounts of how to reinvent our consumer imaginary at such locations, as well as to develop what is here referred to as ‘low-trophic theory,’ a situated ethical stance that attends to entanglements of consumption, food, violence, environmental adaptability and more-than-human care from the co-existential perspective of multispecies ethics. We combine field-philosophical case studies with insights from marine science, environmental art and cultural practices in the Baltic and North Sea region and feminist posthumanities. The paper shows that the oceanic imaginary is not a unified place, but rather, a set of forces, which requires renewed ethical approaches, conceptual inventiveness and practical creativity. Based on the case studies and examples presented, the authors conclude that the consideration of more-than-human ethical perspectives, provided by environmental arts and humanities is crucial for both research on nature and space, and for the flourishing of local multispecies communities. This paper thus inaugurates thinking and practice along the proposed here ethical stance of low-trophic theory, developed it along the methodological lines of feminist environmental posthumanities.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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From Ecologies of Death to Arts of Eco-Grief: A Queer(ing) Approach
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the times of climate change and planetary environmental disruption that turn certain habitats into unliveable spaces and contribute to socio-economic inequalities and vulnerabilities, (more-than-human) death and loss become urgent environmental concerns. As climate scientists indicate, in order to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), a much more radical transformative action is needed from governments, the private sector, communities and individuals (Höhne et al. 2020). Simultaneously, unsustainable living conditions contributing to the mortality of human and nonhuman individuals, destruction of entire ecosystems, loss of biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction evoke feelings of anxiety, anger and grief, manifested globally in popular-scientific narratives, cultural expressions, and environmental activism. In this paper I explore crisis imaginaries linked to more-than-human death, dying and extinction (material and figurative), as well as questions of eco-grief, which the former are inherently entwined with. After unpacking the genealogy of the concept of eco-grief and its interlinked notions, I briefly sketch out the theoretical framework of Queer Death Studies, which this talk is embedded in, and subsequently I look at several examples of contemporary bio-, eco-and media art that mobilise and – at times – subvert the notions of and mourning the more-than-human.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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From Feminism to Speciesism and Back Again or How We Are Becoming and How We Collaborate...
- 2010
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Ingår i: Artmix. - Warsaw, Poland : Centre for Contemporary Art. ; 33:13
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- This article aims to discuss and challenge speciesism and anthropocentrism that structure Western philosophy and culture. By looking at new directions in both contemporary feminist theory and art, the text asks about possibilities of thinking a non-anthropocentric and non-speciesist ethics of care.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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From Terminal Ecologies to Non/Living Matters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Death
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- From Terminal Ecologies to Non/Living Matters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Death In the contemporary context of multiple crises, planetary-scale necropolitics contributes to the creation of unliveable spaces and ‘terminal’ conditions; social and environmental violence; the death of individuals and species extinction. While natural sciences emphasise interdependency and relationality as crucial characteristics of life on Earth, Western cultural imaginaries tend to draw a thick dividing line between humans and other organisms, particularly evident in the context of death, where some deaths are set as ungrievable or not recognised as deaths in the full sense of the word. Against this backdrop, I will look at how select examples of contemporary bio- and eco-art challenge the normative and human-exceptionalist concept of death; how they attend to the intimacies between materialities of a human and nonhuman kind that form part of the processes of death and dying; and what follows, how they reframe ethico-ontology of death as material and processual ecologies of non/living matters.
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- Radomska, Marietta
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Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Thinking with Lichens
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lichens are holobionts consisting of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria (and possibly other microorganisms), living in a symbiotic relationship. They are resilient “pioneer organisms” that are among the first species to grow in previously uninhabited areas, able to survive in extreme temperatures and harsh environments. In the Nordic context, they are crucial players in the biodiversity of especially boreal and arctic region, where they significantly contribute to biomass and are a primary source of food for reindeer. Simultaneously, lichens are sensitive to air pollution and climate changes, which render them critical in the study of human-induced changes in ecosystems.In this paper (forming part of the very early stages of a transdisciplinary project focused on ecologies of death in the context of contemporary environmental crises), I take lichens as both a figuration and a case study. By thinking with lichens inhabiting the Nordic region, I will try to explore the ethico-ontological questions of living and dying in the Anthropocene.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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MacCormack, Patricia (ed.), The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory, Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2014. ISBN: 9781472534446 (Paperback) / 9781472526847 (Cloth), 224 pp., US$ 34.95 (Paperback) / US$ 104 (Cloth).
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Ingår i: Somatechnics. - Edinburgh University Press : Edinburgh University Press. - 2044-0138 .- 2044-0146. ; 5:2, s. 255-258
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Machinic Assemblages of the Non/Living : Bioart and Uncontainable Life
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bioart is an increasingly popular current of contemporary art which involves the use of biological (”living”) materials and employment of bioscientific procedures, protocols, and tools. This also means that bioartworks often result from the collaboration between artists and scientists. As any other form of tinkering with life in the frames of wet biology laboratory, bioartistic practices generate waste on a daily basis. It is not only laboratory materials, rubber gloves, or chemical substances that need to be disposed in accordance with lab protocols; the very life itself, the organisms, cells, tissues, bacteria, and all other forms of the living – once they “fulfil the ascribed role” – are to be disposed as well. In the latter case, yet, the “disposal” may also be understood as neutralisation or killing as the organisms cannot be sustained in the lab anymore (“are no longer useful”?), nor can they leave the lab. As the bioartists, Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts (Tissue Culture & Art Project) put it, “when life leaves the lab it is almost always waste”. In their own projects, which do not only consist in growing semi-living sculptures out of tissue cultures seeded on biopolymer scaffoldings of different shapes, but also include the involvement of the audience, TC&A draw attention to this very instrumental position which life itself occupies in the context of contemporary bioscience and technology. At the same time, both their artworks and narratives challenge the popular (transhumanist) discourse on manageability and control over life In this paper I will look at how the concept of the disposable/waste, which is increasingly problematised not only within environmental science, but also philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, may allow for a problematisation of life and the living entwined in the procedures constitutive of a bioartistic laboratory. Furthermore, whilst concentrating on the intertwinement between human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, living and non-living that all fall into the category of “life”, I will introduce the concept of the non/living as a more adequate and fruitful way of approaching this dynamic assemblage. Finally, I will inquire about possible ways in which the assemblage of the non/living may enable a rethinking of ethics in a non-anthropocentric manner.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-, et al.
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Missing Links and Non/Human Queerings: an Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Somatechnics. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. - 2044-0138 .- 2044-0146. ; 5:2, s. 113-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, questions regarding the ontological status of the human have been raised with renewed interest and imagination within various fields of critical thought. In the face of biotechnological findings and increasingly advanced technologies that connect as well as disturb settled boundaries, whether geographical or bodily, not to mention philosophical questionings of traditional western humanism, the boundaries of the human subject have been contested. The human body, traditionally imagined as closed and autonomous, has been opened up to a world of forces and agencies that are strange, other and often deeply disturbing when viewed from an anthropocentric standpoint.
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- Radomska, Marietta
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Non/Living Archives: Deterritorialising Death
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The processes and imaginaries of what is commonly framed as ‘the Anthropocene’ combine and expose the erasure, consumption, oppression, colonisation, and exploitation of different kinds of bodies: human and nonhuman, organic and inorganic, individual and multiplicitous. Some of them are always already rendered ‘bare life’ or commodities to be consumed. While death as both an event and a process underpins the questions of the current environmental crisis and the accompanying cultural imaginaries, its understanding remains fashioned and arranged very much according to the conventional Western idea of the autonomous human subject. By bringing select philosophical perspectives and new-media/bioartworks into dialogue, this paper aims to focus on the possibilities of moving beyond the hegemony of the human, ‘deterritorialising’ death, and exploring ethical potentials such a deterritorialisation may open up.
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- Radomska, Marietta, 1984-
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Non/living Matter, Bioscientific Imaginaries and Feminist Technoecologies of Bioart
- 2017
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Ingår i: Australian feminist studies (Print). - : Taylor & Francis. - 0816-4649 .- 1465-3303. ; 32:94, s. 377-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bioart is a form of hybrid artistico-scientific practices in contemporary art that involve the use of bio-materials (such as living cells, tissues, organisms) and scientific techniques, protocols, and tools. Bioart-works embody vulnerability (intrinsic to all beings) and depend on (bio)technologies that allow these creations to come into being, endure and flourish but also discipline them. This article focuses on ‘semi-living’ sculptures by The Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A). TC&A’s artworks consist of bioengineered mammal tissues grown over biopolymer scaffoldings of different shapes and require sterile conditions of a bioreactor and constant care in order to survive. The article explores how bioart-works are always already intertwined with multiple (bio)technologies and techniques of care and labour, forming specific feminist technoecologies that challenge conventional bioscientific and cultural imaginaries of embodiment and the relation between physis and techné. TC&A’s sculptures expose life as the non/living: the processual enmeshment of the organic and inorganic, living and non-living, and growth and decay. The article argues that thinking with and through the feminist technoecologies of bioart mobilises philosophical inventiveness: not only does it problematise the entwinement of technology and biomatter and of culture and nature, but it also prompts us to rethink the ontology of life.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-, et al.
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Non/Living Queerings, Undoing Certainties, and Braiding Vulnerabilities : A Collective Reflection
- 2021
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Ingår i: Artnodes. - Barcelona : Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. - 1695-5951. ; :27, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19 has exposed SARS-CoV-2 as a potent non-human actant that resists the joint scientific, public health and socio-political efforts to contain and understand both the virus and the illness. Yet, such a narrative appears to conceal more than it reveals. The seeming agentiality of the novel coronavirus is itself but one manifestation of the continuous destruction of biodiversity, climate change, socio-economic inequalities, neocolonialism, overconsumption and the anthropogenic degradation of nature. Furthermore, focusing on the virus – an entity that holds an ambiguous status between the ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ – brings into question the issue of the agentiality of non/living matter. While the story of viral potency seems to get centre stage, overshadowing the complex and perverse entanglement of processes and phenomena which activated these potentials in the first place, the Covid-19 pandemic also becomes a prism that sheds light on the issues of environmental violence; social and environmental injustices; more-than-human agentiality; and ethico-political responses that the present situation may mobilise.This article serves as a written record of joint conversations between artists and researchers in the working group ‘Non/Living Queerings’ that formed part of the online series of events ‘Braiding Friction’ organised by the research project Biofriction. The article strives to capture the collective effort of braiding and weaving a variety of situated perspectives, theoretical toolboxes, knowledges and experiences against the background of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the text focuses on the issues of crisis, ‘amplification effect’, viral agency and the changing notions of humanity.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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On Crisis Imaginaries, Ecological Grief and Mourning the More-than-Human
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the times of climate change and planetary environmental disruption (or crises) that render certain habitats unliveable and contribute to socio-economic inequalities and vulnerabilities, death and loss (or more precisely, more-than-human death and loss) turn into urgent environmental concerns. As climate scientists indicate, in order to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), a much more radical transformative action is needed from governments, the private sector, communities and individuals (Höhne et al. 2020). In fact, after the recent IPCC report one might ask what kind of an understatement that phrasing is. Simultaneously, unsustainable living conditions contributing to the mortality of human and nonhuman individuals, destruction of entire ecosystems, loss of biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction evoke feelings of anxiety, anger and grief, manifested globally in popular-scientific narratives, cultural expressions, and environmental activism. In this paper I delve into crisis imaginaries linked to more-than-human death, dying and extinction, as well as questions of environmental grief, which the former are inherently entwined with. After unpacking the genealogy of the concept of environmental grief and its interlinked notions, I briefly sketch out the theoretical framework of Queer Death Studies, which this presentation is embedded in, and subsequently I look at several examples of contemporary bio-, eco-and media art that mobilise and – at times – subvert the notions of and mourning the more-than-human.
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