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Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury, , ISBN
Astrida Neimanis Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology London: Bloomsbury, (ISBN: ) Reviewed by Claire Brault, Claire Brault is a political theorist whose interdisciplinary work focuses on environmental and feminist theory, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities. She currently works as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the department of political science in Brown University, where she is finishing her book, Beyond Utopia: Feminist Eco-Temporalities. There she is also working on her next research project, focused on Nietzsche's concept of the eternal return and the ecological crises. **** For the last couple of decades, feminist theory has been immersed in a new materialist wave that has produced among the most innovative and capacious ways to think and to respond critically--ontologically, ethically, and poli
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The Sea and the Breathing
The Weather
As an embodied experience and agentic force, weather moves, scars, imprints. Our armpits dampen in response to the heat; our jaws and tongues stiffen in the biting cold. Like hail-damaged rooftops and sun-bleached laundry, our bodies bear the impressions of the weather-world. We could say that weather is the external conditions that structure one’s quotidian existence; this existence is felt in and as our bodies. Weather has a verbal form.
But is weather only a meteorological phenomenon? What else swirls in/as the weather world to mark us, to structure our quotidian lives? Black studies and feminist scholar Christina Sharpe suggests that weather is anti-blackness; black bodies must endure “the total climate” that is antiblackness. She writes, “In what I am calling the weather, antiblackness is pervasive as climate.” Sharpe’s chapter “The Weather” from her book In the Wake specifically references the Middle Passage and
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Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive
edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis
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If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Reperforming selections from three live events staged in , and in Sydney, Australia, Hacking the Anthropocene offers a series of propositions – argument, augury, poetry, elegy, essay, image, film – that suggest alternative entry points for understanding shifting relationships between humans and naturlig eller utan tillsats . Scholars and artists from environmental humanities and related areas of social, political and cultural studies interrogate the assumption of the human “we” as a uniform actor, and offer a timely reminder of the entanglements of race, sexuality, gender, coloniality, class, and species