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Transcorporeality: an interview with Stacy Alaimo
No full textThe interview was mainly conducted at Tallinn University in January 2019, when Stacy Alaimo visited the Graduate Winter School “The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human” and gave a plenary lecture titled “Onto-epistemologies for the Anthropocene, or Who will be the Subject of the Posthumanities?”, and completed in spring 2020, to address immediately unfolding issues.
Alaimo is an internationally recognized scholar of American literature, ecocultural theory, environmental humanities, science studies, gender theory, and new materialism. She is the author of three monographs on environmental theory and ecocultural studies: “Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space” (Cornell University Press, 2000); “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self” (Indiana University Press, 2010); and “Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Alaimo has edited and co-edited essay collections, including “Science Studies and the Blue Humanities” (essay cluster for SLSA journal, “Configurations”. Fall 2019); Matter (MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017); “Material Feminisms” (with Susan Hekman, Indiana University Press, 2008), and is the author of a significant number of essays and book chapters. She co-edits a book series, “Elements,” at Duke University Press. Her current work focuses on oceans and marine life: she is currently finishing a book tentatively titled, Composing “Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss”. Alaimo served as co-President of ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), and created and directed the cross-disciplinary minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Texas and Arlington. She joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in 2019, where she is Professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies.
The interview addresses the evolution of her views as represented in “Undomesticated Ground” (2000), as well as the connections and tensions of feminism and environmentalism; it moves on to “Bodily Natures” (2010), in which she develops her seminal concept of transcorporeality; and looks into her ongoing interest in the deep sea and its representation in culture, the focus of her current book project, “Composing Blue Ecologies”.
The interview discusses the importance of transcorporeality in the Anthropocene, as an alternative to “self-aggrandizing” accounts “in which some transhistorical ‘Man’ acts upon the inert, external matter of the world.” Examples from both science and culture illustrate the concepts discussed, reaching out into important political concerns of the day, such as climate refugees, sustainability as a labour and power issue, divisive dichotomies and understanding difference. The theme of water as an example of transcorporeality and a burning ecological issue is taken up, touching upon the current vulnerability of the Baltic Sea and elaborating on the material and ideas developed in the new book that Stacy Alaimo is working on. The final part of the interview addresses the environmental implications of the COVID-19 crisis.“Las Humanidades y las Posthumanidades: Nuevas Maneras de Ser Humano” de su Escuela de Invierno para Doctorandos, donde impartió una conferencia plenaria titulada “Onto-epistemologías para el Antropoceno, o ¿quién será el Sujeto de las Posthumanidades?”, y se completó durante la primavera de 2020, con el objetivo de abordar los acontecimientos que estaban desarrollándose en ese momento.
Alaimo es una académica reconocida internacionalmente que está especializada en los campos de literatura estadounidense, teoría ecocultural, humanidades ambientales, estudios de ciencias, teoría de género y nuevo materialismo. Es la autora de tres monografías dedicadas a la teoría medioambiental y a los estudios ecoculturales: “Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space” (Cornell University Press, 2000); “Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self” (Indiana University Press, 2010); y Exposed: “Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times” (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Además, coedita “Elements”, una colección de libros de la Duke University Press. Su trabajo actual se centra en los océanos y en la vida marina: está terminando un libro provisionalmente titulado “Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss”. Alaimo ejerció como co-presidente de ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), y creó y dirigió la carrera interdisciplinar en Estudios Medioambientales y de Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Texas y Arlington. Se incorporó al claustro de la Universidad de Oregón en 2019, donde ejerce de Catedrática de Estudios Ingleses y es una parte central de la plantilla docente dedicada a los estudios medioambientales.
La entrevista aborda la evolución de las teorías propuestas en “Undomesticated Ground” (2000), así como las conexiones y las tensiones entre el feminismo y el ecologismo; continúa con “Bodily Natures” (2010), en el que la autora desarrolla su influyente concepto de transcorporealidad, y finalmente termina con una mirada a su actual interés en el mar profundo y sus representaciones culturales, que conforma el núcleo de su actual proyecto literario: “Composing Blue Ecologies”.
La entrevista examina la importancia de la transcorporealidad en el Antropoceno como una alternativa a los relatos de “enaltecimiento propio”, “en los que “un supuesto ‘Hombre’ transhistórico actúa sobre la materia del mundo, que es inerte y externa a él”. Para ilustrar los conceptos tratados se emplean ejemplos provenientes de la ciencia y la cultura, abarcando preocupaciones políticas actuales como los refugiados ambientales, la sostenibilidad como trabajo y como estructura de poder, y las dicotomías divisivas y el entendimiento de la diferencia. Además, se trata el concepto del agua como ejemplo de transcorporealidad y de problema ecológico urgente, mencionando la vulnerabilidad actual del Mar Báltico y detallando el material y las ideas desarrolladas en el nuevo libro en el que Stacy Alaimo está trabajando actualmente. La parte final de la entrevista se entra en la trascendencia medioambiental de la crisis del COVID-19
Transcorporealidad: Una entrevista a Stacy Alaimo
No full text The interview was mainly conducted at Tallinn University in January 2019, when Stacy Alaimo visited the Graduate Winter School “The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human” and gave a plenary lecture titled “Onto-epistemologies for the Anthropocene, or Who will be the Subject of the Posthumanities?”, and completed in spring 2020, to address immediately unfolding issues.
Alaimo is an internationally recognized scholar of American literature, ecocultural theory, environmental humanities, science studies, gender theory, and new materialism. She is the author of three monographs on environmental theory and ecocultural studies: Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell University Press, 2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010); and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Alaimo has edited and co-edited essay collections, including Science Studies and the Blue Humanities (essay cluster for SLSA journal, Configurations. Fall 2019); Matter (MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, 2017); Material Feminisms (with Susan Hekman, Indiana University Press, 2008), and is the author of a significant number of essays and book chapters. She co-edits a book series, “Elements,” at Duke University Press. Her current work focuses on oceans and marine life: she is currently finishing a book tentatively titled, Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Alaimo served as co-President of ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), and created and directed the cross-disciplinary minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Texas and Arlington. She joined the faculty of the University of Oregon in 2019, where she is Professor of English and core faculty member in environmental studies.
The interview addresses the evolution of her views as represented in Undomesticated Ground (2000), as well as the connections and tensions of feminism and environmentalism; it moves on to Bodily Natures (2010), in which she develops her seminal concept of transcorporeality; and looks into her ongoing interest in the deep sea and its representation in culture, the focus of her current book project, Composing Blue Ecologies.
The interview discusses the importance of transcorporeality in the Anthropocene, as an alternative to “self-aggrandizing” accounts “in which some transhistorical ‘Man’ acts upon the inert, external matter of the world.” Examples from both science and culture illustrate the concepts discussed, reaching out into important political concerns of the day, such as climate refugees, sustainability as a labour and power issue, divisive dichotomies and understanding difference. The theme of water as an example of transcorporeality and a burning ecological issue is taken up, touching upon the current vulnerability of the Baltic Sea and elaborating on the material and ideas developed in the new book that Stacy Alaimo is working on. The final part of the interview addresses the environmental implications of the COVID-19 crisis.Esta entrevista tuvo lugar, principalmente, en la Universidad de Tallín en enero de 2019, coincidiendo con la visita de Stacy Alaimo al módulo “Las Humanidades y las Posthumanidades: Nuevas Maneras de Ser Humano” de su Escuela de Invierno para Doctorandos, donde impartió una conferencia plenaria titulada “Onto-epistemologías para el Antropoceno, o ¿quién será el Sujeto de las Posthumanidades?”, y se completó durante la primavera de 2020, con el objetivo de abordar los acontecimientos que estaban desarrollándose en ese momento.
Alaimo es una académica reconocida internacionalmente que está especializada en los campos de literatura estadounidense, teoría ecocultural, humanidades ambientales, estudios de ciencias, teoría de género y nuevo materialismo. Es la autora de tres monografías dedicadas a la teoría medioambiental y a los estudios ecoculturales: Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell University Press, 2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana University Press, 2010); y Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Además, coedita “Elements”, una colección de libros de la Duke University Press. Su trabajo actual se centra en los océanos y en la vida marina: está terminando un libro provisionalmente titulado Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Alaimo ejerció como co-presidente de ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), y creó y dirigió la carrera interdisciplinar en Estudios Medioambientales y de Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Texas y Arlington. Se incorporó al claustro de la Universidad de Oregón en 2019, donde ejerce de profesora titular de Estudios Ingleses y es una parte central de la plantilla docente dedicada a los estudios medioambientales.
La entrevista aborda la evolución de las teorías propuestas en Undomesticated Ground (2000), así como las conexiones y las tensiones entre el feminismo y el ecologismo; continúa con Bodily Natures (2010), en el que la autora desarrolla su influyente concepto de transcorporealidad, y finalmente termina con una mirada a su actual interés en el mar profundo y sus representaciones culturales, que conforma el núcleo de su actual proyecto literario: Composing Blue Ecologies.
La entrevista examina la importancia de la transcorporealidad en el Antropoceno como una alternativa a los relatos de “enaltecimiento propio”, “en los que “un supuesto ‘Hombre’ transhistórico actúa sobre la materia del mundo, que es inerte y externa a él”. Para ilustrar los conceptos tratados se emplean ejemplos provenientes de la ciencia y la cultura, abarcando preocupaciones políticas actuales como los refugiados ambientales, la sostenibilidad como trabajo y como estructura de poder, y las dicotomías divisivas y el entendimiento de la diferencia. Además, se trata el concepto del agua como ejemplo de transcorporealidad y de problema ecológico urgente, mencionando la vulnerabilidad actual del Mar Báltico y detallando el material y las ideas desarrolladas en el nuevo libro en el que Stacy Alaimo está trabajando actualmente. La parte final de la entrevista se entra en la trascendencia medioambiental de la crisis del COVID-19
Ep. #039 - Stacy Alaimo
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic say hello from Copenhagen and muse about the humanities’ expanding color spectrum. We then welcome (12:12) to the podcast the fabulous Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English at the University of Texas-Arlington and author of the celebrated Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Indiana U, 2010). We discuss her new book, Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (U Minnesota 2016), in light of her thinking about trans-corporeality and ethics in the Anthropocene. Stacy shares her concerns that an abstract sense of species identity and pride is too often smuggled into the Anthropocene concept and explains why she thinks material feminism and feminist science studies have become such important resources for understanding our present condition. We discuss why the turn toward materiality and material agency demands that we engage science in new ways. We talk about the unruly agency of xenobiotic chemicals, deep sea creatures, epigenetics, and how to remake human sprawl to take other creaturely interests into account. Stacy explains that she is not in the hope business but that she does support ecodelics—the mind altering exercise of trying to imagine and feel the Anthropocene from nonhuman perspectives. Stacy’s German Shepherd, Felix, kindly helps us grasp this last point and he shares his thoughts on squirrel metonymy and his unease when the postman cometh. The lesson of the Anthropocene? There is no someplace else. So be present for all the species in your ecology, dear friends
Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alaimo
No full textReview of Stacy Alaimo\u27s Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Stacy Alaimo, Exposed. Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times: (Nota krytyczna)
No full textThis critical note is devoted to Stacy Alaimo\u27s "Exposed. Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times" published in 2016 by University of Minnesota Press. It summarises the chapters included in Alaimo\u27s book, reconstructs their key concepts, and presents the problems they aim to tackle.Niniejsza nota krytyczna poświęconą książce Stacy Alaimo pt. "Exposed. Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times" opublikowanej w 2016 roku przez University of Minnesota Press. Nota prezentuje streszczenia esejów składających się na pracę Alaimo, rekonstruuje ich kluczowe zagadnienia oraz opisuje problemy z jakimi się one mierzą. 
Stacy Alaimo "Exposed. Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times" (Nota krytyczna)
No full textNiniejsza nota krytyczna poświęconą książce Stacy Alaimo pt. "Exposed. Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times" opublikowanej w 2016 roku przez University of Minnesota Press. Nota prezentuje streszczenia esejów składających się na pracę Alaimo, rekonstruuje ich kluczowe zagadnienia oraz opisuje problemy z jakimi się one mierzą
Bodily natures : science, environment, and the material self /
No full text"How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment"--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.Bodily natures -- Eros and X-rays : bodies, class, and "environmental justice" -- Invisible matters : the sciences of environmental justice -- Material memoirs : science, autobiography, and the substantial self -- Deviant agents : the science, culture, and politics of multiple chemical sensitivity -- Genetics, material agency, and the evolution of posthuman environmental ethics in science fiction."How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment"--Provided by publisher
Fungal Horror and Futurity in The Last of Us: Part I and The Last of Us: Season One
No full textThe Last of Us Part I and Season One follows Joel and Ellie as they seek to survive amidst the Cordyceps pandemic, where fungi invade human bodies and "zombify" their hosts without killing them. This paper uses rhetorical analysis to determine how The Last of Us imagines human survival in times of planetary crisis. By using screenshots from the series, I analyze fungal agency through the affects of fungal horror and transformation in The Last of Us. Anna Tsing, Michel Foucault, Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari are essential writers that elucidate the significance of Cordyceps as a figure of speculative fiction and a machinic, world-making force. In the series, human survival can ultimately be framed as either "the last of us" humans, or the "lasting of us" beyond the boundaries of the human.2027-08-0
Material feminisms /
No full textHarnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world and the material world, 'Material Feminisms' presents a way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : emerging models of materiality in feminist theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman -- Darwin and feminism : preliminary investigations for a possible alliance / Elizabeth Grosz -- On not becoming man : the materialist politics of unactualized potential / Claire Colebrook -- Constructing the ballast : an ontology for feminism / Susan Hekman -- Posthumanist performativity : toward an understanding of how matter comes to matter / Karen Barad -- Otherworldly conversations, terran topics, local terms / Donna J. Haraway -- Viscous porosity : witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana -- Natural convers(at)ions : or, what if culture was really nature all along? / Vicki Kirby -- Trans-corporeal feminisms and the ethical space of nature / Stacy Alaimo -- Landscape, memory, and forgetting : thinking through (my mother's) body and place / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Disability experience on trial / Tobin Siebers -- How real is race? / Michael Hames-García -- From race/sex/etc. to glucose, feeding tube, and mourning : the shifting matter of Chicana feminism / Suzanne Bost -- Organic empathy : feminism, psychopharmaceuticals, and the embodiment of depression / Elizabeth A. Wilson -- Cassie's hair / Susan Bordo.Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world and the material world, 'Material Feminisms' presents a way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality
From Rusty Genetics to Octopussy’s Garden
No full textAlaimo critiques the “rusty” understanding of genetics, gender, and sex in Middlesex, advocating instead for queer ecological futurism
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