Nina Lykke – författare

Den snart sextioåriga parterapeuten Ida har förlorat sin mor, som hon minst sagt hade ett besvärligt förhållande till. Men det går bättre nu. Som död har modern tagit plats i Idas bröst, inte i hjärtat, utan någonstans bakom nyckelbenet. Där ligger hon och följer med i det som händer, en låg och stillsam röst. Sigurd, Idas vuxne son, har brutit med sin mor, och Harald, make nummer två, har lämnat henne. Men livet går vidare, klienterna fortsätter att komma, och med dem tidsandan, som Ida känner sig alltmer främmande inför. Och nu vill Sigurd plötsligt ha kontakt igen.

Knut är en medelålders författare som allt oftare blir förbisprungen av nya och mer spännande röster. För tjugo år sedan skrev han en framgångsrik roman som han därefter aldrig har lyckats följa upp. Den senaste boken var ett försök att bemöta kritikernas anklagelser om att han gick den vita, privilegierade medelklassens ärenden – men redaktören var inte imponerad och manuset gavs aldrig ut.

Nu har Knut bjudits in till litteraturfestivalen i Lillehammer, visserligen som ersättare i sista sekunden, men ändå. Han tänker göra det bästa av situationen, eftersom han äntligen har fått en andra chans.

"Lykke slår knockout på verklighetslitteraturen i en hejdundrande roman om den så ofta utskällda vita kulturmannen."

VG (Tärningskast 6)

Ingrid och Jan har varit gifta i ett kvarts århundrade. Sönerna är stora nog att räknas som vuxna men uppför sig som hotellgäster. För Ingrid har både familjelivet och läraryrket mist sin glans. Jan, däremot, har blivit befordrad till departementschef och drömmer om sin femton år yngre kollega Hanne. Hanne som i sin tur är i färd med att bli förbisprungen på familjefronten när väninnorna gifter sig och skaffar barn.

Runt dessa tre individer kretsar Nina Lykkes träffsäkra och underhållande roman om medelålders medelklass och dess problem med kärleken, driften och meningen med livet. Nej och åter nej är en satir över privilegierade vuxnas dårskap, varm och svart som en välgörande espresso.

Elin har flyttat in på sitt mottagningsrum dit patienterna kommer i en strid ström med åkommor och brustna drömmar. I två decennier har Elin varit husläkare. Minst lika länge har hon varit gift med Aksel. Men före Aksel fanns Björn, som plötsligt tar kontakt igen via Facebook och vänder upp och ner på allt. Nu bor Elin på sitt jobb och tvingas gömma sig för vakterna när de går sina kvällsrundor. Och hemma i radhuset sitter Aksel och rasar, trots att han lagt sig till med nyskilda grannen Gro.

Nästa! är en roman om självinsiktens förbannelser och förnekelsens välsignelser. Med denna roman flyttar Nina Lykke gränserna för vad en läkarroman kan vara.

Den snart sextioåriga parterapeuten Ida har förlorat sin mor, som hon minst sagt hade ett besvärligt förhållande till. Men det går bättre nu. Som död har modern tagit plats i Idas bröst, inte i hjärtat, utan någonstans bakom nyckelbenet. Där ligger hon och följer med i det som händer, en låg och stillsam röst. Sigurd, Idas vuxne son, har brutit med sin mor, och Harald, make nummer två, har lämnat henne. Men livet går vidare, klienterna fortsätter att komma, och med dem tidsandan, som Ida känner sig alltmer främmande inför. Och nu vill Sigurd plötsligt ha kontakt igen.

Knut är en medelålders författare som allt oftare blir förbisprungen av nya och mer spännande röster. För tjugo år sedan skrev han en framgångsrik roman som han därefter aldrig har lyckats följa upp. Den senaste boken var ett försök att bemöta kritikernas anklagelser om att han gick den vita, privilegierade medelklassens ärenden – men redaktören var inte imponerad och manuset gavs aldrig ut.

Nu har Knut bjudits in till litteraturfestivalen i Lillehammer, visserligen som ersättare i sista sekunden, men ändå. Han tänker göra det bästa av situationen, eftersom han äntligen har fått en andra chans.

"Lykke slår knockout på verklighetslitteraturen i en hejdundrande roman om den så ofta utskällda vita kulturmannen."

VG (Tärningskast 6)

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn''t new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the two have been merging in recent decades. As this process permeates more of everyday life, the urgent necessity arises to rethink both biology and technology. Indeed, the human body can no longer be regarded either as a bounded entity or as a naturally given and distinct part of an unquestioned whole.Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of the body. It is grounded in questions about today''s biocultures, which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes and transformations and in striking a middle road between the metaphor and the material. In exploring current reconfigurations of bodies and embodied subjects, the contributors pursue a technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating new and thoroughly appraised ethical standards.

This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research.

A main focus of the volume is methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms can stimulate border crossings. Boundaries in academic knowledge-building, shaped by the limitations imposed by methodological nationalisms, are challenged in the book. The same applies to boundaries of conventional ・ disembodied and ethically unaffected ・ academic writing modes. The transgressive methodological aims are also pursued through mixing genres and shifting boundaries between academic and creative writing.

Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, students (from undergraduate to postgraduate levels), activists, and NGOs, interested in questions about decoloniality, intersectionality, and transnational feminisms, as well as in methodologies for boundary transgressing knowledge-building.

This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research.

A main focus of the volume is methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms can stimulate border crossings. Boundaries in academic knowledge-building, shaped by the limitations imposed by methodological nationalisms, are challenged in the book. The same applies to boundaries of conventional ・ disembodied and ethically unaffected ・ academic writing modes. The transgressive methodological aims are also pursued through mixing genres and shifting boundaries between academic and creative writing.

Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, students (from undergraduate to postgraduate levels), activists, and NGOs, interested in questions about decoloniality, intersectionality, and transnational feminisms, as well as in methodologies for boundary transgressing knowledge-building.

Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange but queerly loved companions: Vulgar slugs, diatoms (micro-algae), and familiars (spirit guides of witches). The book’s three human co-authors ask: what would it take to establish more-than-human, bio- and geo-egalitarian co-existence on a planet in trouble?

This playfully crafted mixed-genre book is informed by feminist posthumanisms and co-created with a spectral community of more-than-humans who are respectfully summoned to contribute with their perspectives. In focus of the entangled artistic-philosophical-poetic investigations are questions of ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies to co-exist response-ably rather than based on modern human beliefs in exceptionalism and entitlement to sovereignty, control, and conquest of more-than-human worlds.

Feminist Reconfi gurings of Alien Encounters is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, NGOs, politicians, students from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, artists, writers, activists, and artivists who are interested in entangled artistic-poetic-philosophical modes of understanding the world as well as in ecology, new feminist materialism, critical posthumanism, and questions about radically rethinking and reimagining human/more-than-human relations on Earth.

Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange but queerly loved companions: Vulgar slugs, diatoms (micro-algae), and familiars (spirit guides of witches). The book’s three human co-authors ask: what would it take to establish more-than-human, bio- and geo-egalitarian co-existence on a planet in trouble?

This playfully crafted mixed-genre book is informed by feminist posthumanisms and co-created with a spectral community of more-than-humans who are respectfully summoned to contribute with their perspectives. In focus of the entangled artistic-philosophical-poetic investigations are questions of ethics, aesthetics, and methodologies to co-exist response-ably rather than based on modern human beliefs in exceptionalism and entitlement to sovereignty, control, and conquest of more-than-human worlds.

Feminist Reconfi gurings of Alien Encounters is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, NGOs, politicians, students from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, artists, writers, activists, and artivists who are interested in entangled artistic-poetic-philosophical modes of understanding the world as well as in ecology, new feminist materialism, critical posthumanism, and questions about radically rethinking and reimagining human/more-than-human relations on Earth.

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking. Taking research and art-making on death, dying, mourning, and afterlife into new directions, it explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the current period of Earth’s history, ‘The Anthropocene’ or ‘the Age of Man’.

Informed by queer, critical posthumanist, decolonial, and feminist approaches, the Handbook presents a unique variety of both critical and affirmative reflections upon the world’s intersecting necropowers, and ethico-political potentials for social and environmental change. Contributors speculate on ways to reimagine life/ death-relations as vibrant entanglements. They also investigate modes of mourning differently, resisting necropolitical regimes that deem human and non-human individuals and populations to be disposable and non-grievable when they differ too much from the normative modern subject, Universal Man, in terms of intersections of gender, racialisation, class, sexuality, embodiment, embrainment, geopolitical positioning, or species.

A thought provoking read, this Handbook is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, artists, teachers, students, death-professionals, (health)careworkers, activists, and NGOs interested in tools to rethink and reimagine death, dying, mourning, and afterlife from intersections of queering, decolonising, posthumanising, and feminist perspectives.

This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking. Taking research and art-making on death, dying, mourning, and afterlife into new directions, it explores the multiple effects of contemporary necropolitics and the proliferation of death-worlds during the current period of Earth’s history, ‘The Anthropocene’ or ‘the Age of Man’.

Informed by queer, critical posthumanist, decolonial, and feminist approaches, the Handbook presents a unique variety of both critical and affirmative reflections upon the world’s intersecting necropowers, and ethico-political potentials for social and environmental change. Contributors speculate on ways to reimagine life/ death-relations as vibrant entanglements. They also investigate modes of mourning differently, resisting necropolitical regimes that deem human and non-human individuals and populations to be disposable and non-grievable when they differ too much from the normative modern subject, Universal Man, in terms of intersections of gender, racialisation, class, sexuality, embodiment, embrainment, geopolitical positioning, or species.

A thought provoking read, this Handbook is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, artists, teachers, students, death-professionals, (health)careworkers, activists, and NGOs interested in tools to rethink and reimagine death, dying, mourning, and afterlife from intersections of queering, decolonising, posthumanising, and feminist perspectives.