Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters: Ethical Co-Existence in More-than-Human Worlds [Hardcover]

Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters?reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange, but queerly loved companions, Vulgar slugs, diatoms, and familiars, the books 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?

On a damaged earth, human beings must finally learn to meet more-than-humans on their terms. Thats 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

 

A sensitive yet vibrant and sympathetically weird volume exploring queer ways to think of the less emphasized others of our worlds occupants. The authors remind us that posthumanism deals with a host of alien and strange fabulations which have lived alongside us and existed for longer than us, in their own ways irreducible to anthropocentric philosophical capture. A beautiful and activism-inspiring book.  

Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

 

With tenderness and vulnerability, the authors sincerely stretch their hands, hearts and minds out to meet and be met by alien others. In doing so they sculpt a post-human practice of kinship that is much needed in these petro-patriarchal times. Playful, thoughtful and committed, this book bridges theory, art, and creative writing, putting to use all thesel“-