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OverviewVibrant 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Nina Lykke (Linköping Univesity, Sweden and Aarhus University, Denmark)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.603kg ISBN: 9781350149724ISBN 10: 1350149721 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 13 January 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsOverture: Travelling to the World of the Dead – A Triptych Chapter 1: Queering Death and Posthumanizing Mourning - Introduction Interlude I: Lacrimoso e Lamentoso (Crying and Lamenting) Chapter 2: The Excessive Mourner Interlude II: Vibrato Bruscamente (Abruptly Vibrating) Chapter 3. The Vibrant Corpse Interlude III: Silenzio Appasionato (Passionate Silence) Chapter 4: Is the Wall of Silence Breachable? Interlude IV: Ardente e Ondeggiante (Burning and Undulating) Chapter 5: Miraculous Co-Becomings? Interlude V: Milagrosa (Miraculous) Chapter 6: Pluriversal Conversations on Immanent Miracles Interlude VI: Glissando (Gliding Between Pitches) Chapter 7: Doing Posthuman Autophenomenography, Poetics, and Divinatory Figuring Interlude VII: Con Abbandono e Devozione (With Self-Abandon and Devotion) Coda - Between Love-Death and a Posthuman Ethics of Vibrant DeathReviewsComposed of ashes, pearls, diatoms, longing and audacious thought, this book takes the reader beyond the life/death threshold, to an encounter with the posthuman that is both spectral and inexorably material. Nina Lykke takes posthumanist scholarship to a new place. * Maggie MacLure, Professor Emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * Through an interweaving of dimensions such as photography, poetry, storytelling, opera, miraculous co-becomings and philosophical reflections, Vibrant Death invites us to a process of un-learning of death beyond the idea of static nothingness. This book is a radical, sensorial and transformative project * Katja Aglert, independent artist and Professor of Art, Linkoeping University, Sweden * Vibrant Death is simply stunning across all registers: affective, methodological, theoretical and poetic. As a magical travelogue , its range and depth of inquiry around the issues of death and mourning are fearless and startlingly innovative. Lykke gives us a relentlessly posthuman, queerfeminist text that beautifully exemplifies an erotics of connection. * Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden * Author InformationNina Lykke is Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also a poet and writer, and is author of Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing (2012) and editor of Writing Academic Texts Differently, Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (2014) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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