{"product_id":"vibrant-death-a-posthuman-phenomenology-of-mourning-paperback","title":"Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNina Lykke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRosi Braidotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVibrant Death\u003c\/i\u003e 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). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNina 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina Lykke\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Linking University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also a poet and writer, and is author of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and editor of \u003ci\u003eWriting Academic Texts Differently, Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing \u003c\/i\u003e(2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780262854944,"sku":"9781350187825","price":73.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b3955caadf0b6be447268da502a0634.webp?v=1780525712","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/vibrant-death-a-posthuman-phenomenology-of-mourning-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}