Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities

Cecilia Åsberg, Professor of Gender, Nature, Culture at Tema Genus, Linköping University, is the founding director of The Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. She teaches, collaborates and publishes essays in the intersections of gender studies and feminist theory, media and cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies and other forms of posthumanities such as medical, digital and environmental humanities. Recent publications include Debates in Nordic Gender Studies: Differences Within; Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity, with Ericka Johnson and Ebba Sjögren; Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter; Animal Places, with Tora Holmberg and Jacob Bull. Åsberg is Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Trandisciplinary Gender Studes.  Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD, Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1981; Honorary Degrees Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013) is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her latest books are: Conflicting Humanities (co-edited with Paul Gilroy), London: Bloomsbury, 2016; The Posthuman, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013; Nomadic Subjects, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011 (second, revised ed.) and Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti, Columbia University Press, 2011.

• 1. Feminist Posthumanities: An Introduction.- 2. Passionately Posthuman: From Feminist Disidentifications to Postdisciplinary Posthumanities.- 3. Posthuman Sexuality: From Ahumanity to Cosmogenic Desire.- 4. Material Feminism in the Anthropocene.- 5. Posthuman Phenomenologies for Planetary Bodies of Water.- 6.Couch grass: Ethics of the Rhizome.- 7. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning.- 8. Embodying the Posthuman Subject: Digital Humanities and Permeable Material Practice.- 9. Sonic Performance and Feminist Posthumanities: Democracy of Resonance and Machinic Sounds.- 10. Intersections: The Animal Question meets Feminist Theory.- 11. Archaeological Posthumanities: Feminist Re-invention of Science and Material Pasts.- 12. On Preparations: Engaging with Inhuman Materialities.- 13. Queer Disability, Postcolonial Feminism and the Monsters of Evolution.- 14. Re/membering the body.- 15. “Let me show you”: A caring ethnography of embodied knowledge in weaving and engineering.- 16. Anatomical Assemblages: Medical Technologies, Bodies and their Entangled Practices.- 17. Practising Ambivalence: The Feminist Politics of Engaging with Technoscience.- 18. The Fabrication of a New Materialisms Researcher Subjectivity.- 19. Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.