Full Description
Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange but queerly loved companions: Vulgar slugs, diatoms (micro-algae), and familiars (spirit guides of witches). The book's three human co-authors ask: what would it take to establish more-than-human, bio- and geo-egalitarian co-existence on a planet in trouble?
This playfully crafted mixed-genre book is informed by feminist posthumanisms and co-created with a spectral community of more-than-humans who are respectfully summoned to contribute with their perspectives. In focus of the entangled artistic-philosophical-poetic investigations are questions of ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies to co-exist response-ably rather than based on modern human beliefs in exceptionalism and entitlement to sovereignty, control, and conquest of more-than-human worlds.
Feminist Reconfi gurings of Alien Encounters is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, NGOs, politicians, students from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, artists, writers, activists, and artivists who are interested in entangled artistic-poetic-philosophical modes of understanding the world as well as in ecology, new feminist materialism, critical posthumanism, and questions about radically rethinking and reimagining human/more-than-human relations on Earth.
Contents
Prologue: Experimental Writing with Spectral Communities and Triquetras; Chapter 1: Reconfiguring Alien Encounters: Introduction; Intertext I Alien Arrivals: Slugs; Chapter 2: Encountering Vulgar Slugs: What Can a Bite Tell About More-than-Human Becomings?; Intertext II Alien Arrivals: Diatoms; Chapter 3: Becoming a Compassionate Diatom Companion; Intertext III Alien Arrivals: Familiars; Chapter 4: Writings from the Pit: On Creative Blocks and the Internal Editor as Familiar Spirit; Chapter 5: More-than-Human Ethics and Poetics; Chapter 6: Conversations on Alien Methods and Writing; Epilogue: Endless End
