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Vibrant Death - A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (Paperback)
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Vibrant Death - A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning (Paperback)
Series: Theory in the New Humanities
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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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