Bodies of Water

Astrida Neimanis is Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the co-editor of Thinking With Water (2013).

For the last couple of decades, feminist theory has been immersed in a new materialist wave that has produced among the most innovative and capacious ways to think and to respond critically--ontologically, ethically, and politically--within the depths of the ongoing ecological crises. If hardly any field of philosophy, cultural studies, or science studies has been as well-equipped to think the posthuman turn as feminist approaches have, Astrida Neimanis's Bodies of Water brilliantly synthesizes, illustrates, and continues this feminist ebullition.

• INTRODUCTION: Figuring Bodies of WaterBodies of Water (A Genealogy of a Figuration)Posthuman Feminism for the AnthropoceneLiving with the ProblemWater is What We Make It The Possibility of Posthuman PhenomenologyCHAPTER ONE: Embodying Water: Feminist Phenomenology for Posthuman Worlds A Posthuman Politics of LocationMilky Ways: Tracing Posthuman FeminismsHow to Think (About) a Body of Water: Posthuman Phenomenology Between Merleau-Ponty and DeleuzeHow to Think (As) a Body of Water: Access, Amplify, Describe!Posthuman Ties in a Too-Human WorldCHAPTER TWO: Posthuman Gestationality: Luce Irigaray and Water's Queer RepetitionsHydrological CyclesElemental Bodies: Irigaray as Posthuman Phenomenologist?Love Letters to Watery Others: Marine Lover of Friedrich NietzscheGestationality as (Sexuate) Difference and RepetitionThe Onto-Logic of Amniotics (Queering Water’s Repetitions)Bodies of Water Beyond HumanismCHAPTER THREE: Fishy BeginningsOther EvolutionsDissolving Origin StoriesCarrier Bags and HyperseaWet SexWaters Remembered (Moving Below the Surface)Unknowability as Planetarity (Or, Becoming the Water that We Cannot Become)Aspiration, That Oceanic FeelingCHAPTER FOUR: Imagining Water in the AnthropocenePrologue / KweSwimming into the AnthropoceneLearning from Anti-Colonial WatersWater is Life? Commodity, Charity and Other Repetitions Material Imaginaries and Other Aqueous QuestionsREFERENCESNOTES INDEX