Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology Of Mourning (Theory In The New Humanities)
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN13:
9781350187825
$50.51
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.
- | Author: Nina Lykke
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1350187828
- | ISBN-13: 9781350187825
- Author:
- Nina Lykke
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- Jul 27, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 304 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1350187828
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350187825