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.
Les mer
A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350149748
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter