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Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nina Lykke, Rosi Braidotti (Editor)Series:Theory in the New HumanitiesPublish date:2023-07-27Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350187825ISBN-10:1350187828UPC:9781350187825Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Metaphysics, Death & Dying, Gender StudiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCCNYXGYHX

Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book's ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonial, queerfeminist poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua. The book's posthuman deexceptionalizing of human death unfurls together with a collection of poetry, and autobiographical stories. They are analysed through the lens of a posthuman, queerfeminist revision of the method of autophenomenography (phenomenological analysis of autobiographical material).

Nina Lykke explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine "I", who contemplates the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. She reflects on her enactment of processes of co-becoming with the phenomenal and material traces of the deceased body, and the new assemblages with which it has merged through death's material metamorphoses: becoming-ashes through cremation, and becoming-mixed-with-algae-sand when the ashes were scattered across a seabed made of fiftyfive million-year-old, fossilized algae. It is argued that the mourning "I"'s intimate bodily empathizing (theorized as symphysizing) with her deceased, queermasculine beloved life partner facilitates the processes of vitalist-material and spiritual-material co-becoming, and the rethinking of death from a new and different perspective than that of the sovereign, philosophical subject.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350187825ISBN-10:1350187828UPC:9781350187825Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Metaphysics, Death & Dying, Gender StudiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SCCNYXGYHX
Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Link?ping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also a poet and writer, and is author of Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing (2012) and editor of Writing Academic Texts Differently, Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (2014)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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