The Portable Rosi Braidotti
E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-231-52542-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press
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Arranged thematically, essays begin with such concepts as sexual difference and embodied subjectivity and follow with explorations in technoscience, feminism, postsecular citizenship, and the politics of affirmation. Braidotti develops a distinctly positive critical theory that rejuvenates the experience of political scholarship. Inspired yet not confined by Deleuzian vitalism, with its commitment to the ontology of flows, networks, and dynamic transformations, she emphasizes affects, imagination, and creativity and the politics of radical immanence. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Spinoza as well, Braidotti establishes a critical-theoretical framework equal parts critique and creation. Ever mindful of the perils of defining difference in terms of denigration and the related tendency to subordinate sexualized, racialized, and naturalized others, she explores the eco-philosophical implications of nomadic theory, feminism, and the irreducibility of sexual difference and sexuality. Her dialogue with technoscience is crucial to nomadic theory, which deterritorializes the established understanding of what counts as human, along with our relationship to animals, the environment, and changing notions of materialism. Keeping her distance from the near-obsessive focus on vulnerability, trauma, and melancholia in contemporary political thought, Braidotti promotes a politics of affirmation that has the potential to become its own generative life force.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Feministische Perspektiven in den Wissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
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1. Transposing Differences
2. Meta(l)morphoses: Women, Aliens, and Machines
3. Animals and Other Anomalies
4. The Cosmic Buzz of Insects
2
5. Matter-Realist Feminism
6. Intensive Genre and the Demise of Gender
7. Postsecular Paradoxes
3
8. Complexity Against Methodological Nationalism
9. Nomadic European Citizenship
4
10. Powers of Affirmation
11. Sustainable Ethics and the Body in Pain
12. Forensic Futures
5
13. A Secular Prayer
Notes
Bibliography
Index