EVENT 3. maj 2024: Feministisk posthumanisme, science fiction og skrivning - lancering af "Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters"

Feministisk posthumanisme, science fiction og skrivning - lancering af "Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters"

Sted: Thiemers Magasin, Tullinsgade 24, 1618 København

Dato: fredag d. 3. maj, 18-20

Kom til boglancering af "Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters: Ethical Co-Existence in More-than-Human Worlds" skrevet af Nina Lykke, Katja Algert og Line Henriksen. Aftenen vil byde på en samtale om bogen, fælles skriveøvelser og selvfølgelig mulighed for at købe bogen. Derudover bliver der b.la. serveret vin, øl og sodavand. Så hvis du har interesse for feministisk posthumanisme, science fiction, skrivning eller bare er nysgerrig, er dette event noget for dig. Det er helt gratis at deltage.

Bogen omhandler posthuman teori, og hvordan man kan bruge skrivning til at komme i kontakt med ’aliens’, eller: de ikke-menneskelige væsner og objekter vi deler planet med. Der bruges science fiction, folklore og feministisk teori til at udarbejde skrive-øvelser og måder at ’kontakte’ sådanne aliens på.

Om bogen:

“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 Reconfigurings 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.”

“On a damaged earth, human beings must finally learn to meet more-than-humans on their terms. That’s no small trick for the vertebrate-centric, especially when the partners are unfamiliars like diatoms and slugs. Helped by one or two spirit familiars, this smart, lively book is full of tips for cultivating response-ability, possibly even before the dire heritage of human exceptionalism boils us all up.” - Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Bogens hjemmeside:
 www.routledge.com/9781032447568

Eventet er gratis, men kræver en tilmelding.

Foto credit: Katja Aglert. Copyright: Katja Aglert og Nina Lykke