{"product_id":"vibrant-death-a-posthuman-phenomenology-of-mourning-9781350187825","title":"Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVibrant Death\u003c\/i\u003e links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book's ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonial, queerfeminist poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua. The book's posthuman deexceptionalizing of human death unfurls together with a collection of poetry, and autobiographical stories. They are analysed through the lens of a posthuman, queerfeminist revision of the method of autophenomenography (phenomenological analysis of autobiographical material). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNina Lykke explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine \"I\", who contemplates the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. She reflects on her enactment of processes of co-becoming with the phenomenal and material traces of the deceased body, and the new assemblages with which it has merged through death's material metamorphoses: becoming-ashes through cremation, and becoming-mixed-with-algae-sand when the ashes were scattered across a seabed made of fiftyfive million-year-old, fossilized algae. It is argued that the mourning \"I\"'s intimate bodily empathizing (theorized as symphysizing) with her deceased, queermasculine beloved life partner facilitates the processes of vitalist-material and spiritual-material co-becoming, and the rethinking of death from a new and different perspective than that of the sovereign, philosophical subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina Lykke\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Link?ping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also a poet and writer, and is author of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and editor of \u003ci\u003eWriting Academic Texts Differently, Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing \u003c\/i\u003e(2014)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50865516019986,"sku":"9781350187825","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_462bca34-65a3-4c5d-a222-73b5a0bfba5e.jpg?v=1737677687","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vibrant-death-a-posthuman-phenomenology-of-mourning-9781350187825","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}