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A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities Cecilia Åsberg · Rosi Braidotti Editors A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities Editors CeciliaÅsberg RosiBraidotti GenderStudies(TemaGenus) CentreforHumanities LinköpingUniversity UtrechtUniversity Linköping Utrecht Sweden TheNetherlands ISBN 978-3-319-62138-8 ISBN 978-3-319-62140-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018941564 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingAG2018 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recita- tion,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinfor- mation storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublica- tiondoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromthe relevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authorsortheeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothematerialcontainedherein orforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade.Thepublisherremainsneutralwithregardto jurisdictionalclaimsinpublishedmapsandinstitutionalaffiliations. Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Acknowledgement Feminist posthumanities are the practices of making new connections. This does not mean getting rid of the previous ones, but refiguring them in new constella- tions. The book started out from such very theory-practice based grounds and feminist community building activities at The Posthumanities Hub, Tema Genus, Linköping University and Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University. This volume has gained volume, muscle mass, and it has been generated and exercised through several feminist relationships and posthumanities networks, active across different locations, generations and situations. Now, finally it can walk on all eight. This mutant creature, spidery and webbed, was made possible through the con- tinuous support and hard work of all the involved authors. Thank you all so much!However,thereareafewpeoplewewouldliketoespeciallywarmlythank, and that is Marietta Radomska, for amazing coordinative skills, multiple readings, andanincredible eyefor detailat theend ofa verylongprocess,LaurenLaFauci, for steadfast readings and re-readings of the introduction, Redi Koobak, for her cunningcopy-editing,TaraMehrabi,forherdauntingworkofabridgingtheclassi- cal piece by Karen Barad, Goda Klumbyte, for rock-star and professional compe- tencesthatalwaysgowayoffthechart,andToaMaes,whoatthemidstagedida fabulous job. And last but not least, warm thanks to Vera Weetzel who gave the volume a wonderful finishing touch. Huge thanks goes to Iris van der Tuin and Ericka Johnson for whip-smart review comments and stead-fast support. Thanks to all the great people at The Posthumanities Hub and Tema Genus in Sweden, andthewonderfulteamoftheCentreforHumanitiesintheNetherlands! Cecilia: A very special thanks and all my love goes to my young daughter Elsa (fullname, always under revision, includes Åsa,FrozenElsa, Elisabeth, Crocodilia, Bamse-Barbie, Techna, Musa, Blomma, Blada and Olof), my dear friends, family and life-support systems: Erik, Marietta, Lauren, Olga, Nina, Lina and Björn, mum Åsa and dad Jan, Louise and Therese, Iris and Ericka, and of course Nisse, thecat,whotaughtmemorethanafewtricksofspeciescompanionship. Last but not least, we would like to acknowledge the support of the Swedish Foundation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, funding our meetings in v vi Acknowledgement PIN—Posthumanities International Network—with Matthew Fuller, Luciana Parisi, Olga Goriunova and ourselves; The European Research Council (ERC StG) for “Prescriptive prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals and ‘Healthy’ Subjectivities” withErickaJohnson(pi),CeliaRoberts,CeciliaÅsbergandtheirPPPHS-students; MISTRA and Formas for supporting The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for funding The Posthuman Research Network (pi Christine Daigle), and The Swedish Research Council, funding Posthumanities Network: Next Generation with Norwegian, Canadian, Dutch, US-American and Swedish participants. Contents 1 FeministPosthumanities:AnIntroduction.................... 1 CeciliaÅsbergandRosiBraidotti 2 PassionatelyPosthuman:FromFeministDisidentificationsto PostdisciplinaryPosthumanities ............................ 23 NinaLykke 3 PosthumanSexuality:FromAhumanitytoCosmogenicDesire.... 35 PatriciaMacCormack 4 MaterialFeminismintheAnthropocene ..................... 45 StacyAlaimo 5 PosthumanPhenomenologiesforPlanetaryBodiesofWater...... 55 AstridaNeimanis 6 CouchGrass:EthicsoftheRhizome......................... 67 BarbaraBolt 7 AlgorithmicTumultandtheBrillianceofChelseaManning...... 81 MatthewFuller 8 EmbodyingthePosthumanSubject:DigitalHumanitiesand PermeableMaterialPractice............................... 91 LissaHolloway-Attaway 9 SonicPerformanceandFeministPosthumanities:Democracyof ResonanceandMachinicSounds ........................... 103 MillaTiainen 10 Intersections:TheAnimalQuestionMeetsFeministTheory...... 117 LyndaBirkeandToraHolmberg 11 ArchaeologicalPosthumanities:FeministRe-inventionofScience andMaterialPasts....................................... 129 ChristinaFredengren vii viii Contents 12 OnPreparations:EngagingwithInhumanMaterialities......... 141 MyraJ.Hird 13 QueerDisability,PostcolonialFeminismandtheMonstersof Evolution.............................................. 153 DonnaMcCormack 14 Re/memberingtheBody .................................. 165 MargritShildrick 15 “LetMeShowYou”:ACaringEthnographyofEmbodied KnowledgeinWeavingandEngineering ..................... 175 TaniaPérez-Bustos 16 AnatomicalAssemblages:MedicalTechnologies,Bodiesandtheir EntangledPractices...................................... 189 ErickaJohnson 17 PractisingAmbivalence:TheFeministPoliticsofEngagingwith Technoscience .......................................... 199 CeliaRoberts 18 TheFabricationofaNewMaterialismsResearcherSubjectivity... 211 HilleviLenzTaguchi 19 PosthumanistPerformativity:TowardanUnderstandingofHow MatterComestoMatter.................................. 223 KarenBarad ContributorAuthors......................................... 241 List of Figures Fig.6.1 BiancaHester,detailofpleaseleavethesewindowsopen overnighttoenablethefanstodrawincoolairduringtheearly hoursofthemorning2010,mediaanddimensionsvariable. Collectionoftheartist. ............................... 68 Fig.6.2 BiancaHester,detailofpleaseleavethesewindowsopen overnighttoenablethefanstodrawincoolairduringtheearly hoursofthemorning2010,mediaanddimensionsvariable. Collectionoftheartist. ............................... 69 Fig.6.3 BiancaHester,detailofpleaseleavethesewindowsopen overnighttoenablethefanstodrawincoolairduringtheearly hoursofthemorning2010,mediaanddimensionsvariable. Collectionoftheartist. ............................... 70 Fig.6.4 BiancaHester,detailofpleaseleavethesewindowsopen overnighttoenablethefanstodrawincoolairduringtheearly hoursofthemorning2010,mediaanddimensionsvariable. Collectionoftheartist. ............................... 71 Fig.12.1 Miller/Urey-typevat,MargulisLaboratory................. 142 Fig.12.2 AnalyticalServicesUnit,Queen’sUniversity............... 145 Fig.12.3 GodfreyTestSite,GodfreyOntario. ..................... 147 Fig.12.4 MyraJ.HirdandLynnMargulisafterswimmingat Wood’sHole....................................... 149 Fig.15.1 Caladoinprocess:itshowsapartiallyde-threadedclothand theproductionofastitchcalledPuntoEspíritu.............. 177 Fig.15.2 UnfinishedstatueofacaladoralocatedatCasadelaCulturain Cartago,unknownlocalartist........................... 180 ix x ListofFigures Fig.15.3 Thispictureshowsthemendingofanoldbrokencross-stitch embroideredblousewithanewpieceofcloththesamecoloras theoriginal.Themendingisperformedthroughcalado, embroideringtheedgesoftheoldclothwiththenewone...... 181 Fig.15.4 Afinishedcaladosample.............................. 183 Fig.15.5 Microscopicimageofacaladopiece..................... 185 Fig.16.1 Theinsideofthesimulatorandcomputerdisplay............ 191
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