A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities

by Cecilia Åsberg (Editor), Rosi Braidotti (Editor)

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.

Genres: Theory, Feminism

255 pages, Paperback

Published January 12, 2019

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis]

I'm going to have to reread and rethink most of those chapters, especially that final one by Barad. WOW.

I have often struggled with binaries to breaking down human non-human in a way that is not defeatist, deterministic or libertarian is helpful for me along with the zoe-centric focus which I suppose in a sense is more spirituality that epistemology but I'm going to think about this more in case I can think better through this.

Aspects of that self-determining individual human (man) have always troubled me. Not so sure I have the patience for things like weaving...must we have hands and heart as well as head?

I'm not good at explaining my thinking and as I said I will have to keep re-reading this. Maybe just the Barad at first.