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This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a
theoretical and methodological tool for examining the
co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have
typically been considered as distinct objects of studies. In
underscoring how their dynamic relationality troubles the location
of agency, this book challenges the idea that technology, as the
marker of the innovative capacity of the human, either corrupts or
saves ecology. The contributions to the volume present feminist
approaches that contextualise and historicize such issues as
multi-species survival, border control regimes, solar power,
bioart, artificial intelligence and air pollution. They insist on
the centrality of corporeality, affects, ethics and vulnerability
in the materialisation of technoecological relations, and call into
question the exceptional status of the figure of (hu)Man. Together
they offer critical and creative tools or modes of inquiry for
imagining alternative modalities of practicing care and thinking
environmental sustainability. As a creative contribution to the
growing literature on new configurations of bodies, technologies
and environments against the backdrop of ecological degradation,
digital technologization, and precarity in late capitalism,
Feminist Technoecologies extends the interchanges between feminist
materialisms, environmental humanities and feminist technosciences
studies, and will be a resource for all those interested in these
fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Australian Feminist Studies.
This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a
theoretical and methodological tool for examining the
co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have
typically been considered as distinct objects of studies. In
underscoring how their dynamic relationality troubles the location
of agency, this book challenges the idea that technology, as the
marker of the innovative capacity of the human, either corrupts or
saves ecology. The contributions to the volume present feminist
approaches that contextualise and historicize such issues as
multi-species survival, border control regimes, solar power,
bioart, artificial intelligence and air pollution. They insist on
the centrality of corporeality, affects, ethics and vulnerability
in the materialisation of technoecological relations, and call into
question the exceptional status of the figure of (hu)Man. Together
they offer critical and creative tools or modes of inquiry for
imagining alternative modalities of practicing care and thinking
environmental sustainability. As a creative contribution to the
growing literature on new configurations of bodies, technologies
and environments against the backdrop of ecological degradation,
digital technologization, and precarity in late capitalism,
Feminist Technoecologies extends the interchanges between feminist
materialisms, environmental humanities and feminist technosciences
studies, and will be a resource for all those interested in these
fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Australian Feminist Studies.
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and
robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly
welcoming towards "cobot" technologies, this book provides a
technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both
the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical
exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example
of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-negotiates the boundaries
between formalisation and embodiment, craft and high-tech as well
as useful and dysfunctional machines. It re-crafts the nature of
collaboration between human and robot. This finally entails an
alternative mode of relating - a mode that enables an account of
careful coboting.
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