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Author Neimanis, Astrida, 1972-

Title Bodies of water : posthuman feminist phenomenology / Astrida Neimanis
Published [London] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Series Environmental cultures
Environmental cultures series.
Contents INTRODUCTION: Figuring Bodies of Water ; Bodies of Water (A Genealogy of a Figuration) ; Posthuman Feminism for the Anthropocene ; Living with the Problem Water is What We Make It ; The Possibility of Posthuman Phenomenology -- CHAPTER ONE: Embodying Water: Feminist Phenomenology for Posthuman Worlds. A Posthuman Politics of Location ; Milky Ways: Tracing Posthuman Feminisms ; How to Think (About) a Body of Water: Posthuman ; Phenomenology Between Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze How to Think (As) a Body of Water: Access, Amplify, Describe! ; Posthuman Ties in a Too-Human World -- CHAPTER TWO: Posthuman Gestationality: Luce Irigaray and Water's Queer Repetitions. Hydrological Cycles ; Elemental Bodies: Irigaray as Posthuman ; Phenomenologist? ; Love Letters to Watery Others: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche ; Gestationality as (Sexuate) Difference and Repetition ; The Onto-Logic of Amniotics (Queering Water's Repetitions) ; Bodies of Water Beyond Humanism -- CHAPTER THREE: Fishy Beginnings ; Other Evolutions ; Dissolving Origin Stories ; Carrier Bags and Hypersea ; Wet Sex ; Waters Remembered (Moving Below the Surface) ; Unknowability as Planetarity (Or, Becoming the Water that We Cannot Become) ; Aspiration, That Oceanic Feeling -- CHAPTER FOUR: Imagining Water in the Anthropocene ; Prologue / Kwe Swimming into the Anthropocene ; Learning from Anti-Colonial Waters ; Water is Life? Commodity, Charity and Other Repetitions ; Material Imaginaries and Other Aqueous Questions -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary "Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them -- from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Water -- Philosophy
Feminist theory.
Phenomenology.
phenomenology.
Feminist theory
Phenomenology
Water -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
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