Vibrant Death : A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning Paperback / softback
by Professor Nina (Linkoping Univesity, Sweden and Aarhus University, Denmark) Lykke
Part of the Theory in the New Humanities series
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
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- ISBN:9781350187825
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:27/07/2023
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- ISBN:9781350187825