Intersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency

List of Contributors

1.           Thinking at Intersections in Feminist Theory

Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler

2.           In Conversation: Feminist Phenomenology and Feminist Technoscience Studies

Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Lisa Lindén, Celia Roberts and Kristin Zeiler

Part I: Situated Subjectivity and Knowledge Production

3.           Situated Subjectivity and Knowledge Production across Feminist Phenomenology and Feminist Technoscience Studies

Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll

4.           Germinating the Seeds of Elemental Sol(id)arity: Sensory Engagements, Apparatuses, and Generative Blind Fields in Everyday Solar Encounters

Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer

5.           Entangling Responsiveness: Diffracting Barad, Bohr, and Merleau-Ponty

Björn Þorsteinsson

6.           Curating Embodied Resistance through Social Media: The Role of Virtual Audiences in the Fight for Social Justice

Gail Weiss

Part II: The Body and Embodiment

7.           Bodies and Embodiment across Feminist Phenomenology and Feminist Technoscience Studies

Lisa Folkmarson Käll and Kristin Zeiler

8.           Pregnant Embodiment during Extreme Bushfires: Breathing in Climate Crisis

Celia Roberts, Rebecca Williamson, Louisa Allen and Mary Lou Rasmussen

9.           Achieving a Fit between Bodies and Prosthesis: Accounting for Experiences with Limb Prostheses at the Crossroads Between Feminist Technoscience Studies and Phenomenology

Lucie Dalibert

10.        Normative Technology and the Body: The 4N Approach to Technology

Maren Wehrle and Yvonne Förster

11.        Aging Bodies, Biopower, and the Role of Critical Phenomenology

Kevin Aho

Part III: Affectivity and Agency

12.        Affectivity and Agency across Feminist Phenomenology and Feminist Technoscience Studies

Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll

13.        On Simulation and Stimulation: Doctor-Centered and Patient-Centered Practices of Care in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Brain-Dead Trilogy”

Lisa Diedrich

14.        Between Molar, Molecular, and Spectral Mourning: A Conversation between Phenomenology and Feminist New Materialism

Nina Lykke

Index

Biography

Lisa Folkmarson Käll is Professor of Gender Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Kristin Zeiler is Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies: Technology and Social Change, and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Linköping University, Sweden.

“A valuable and long overdue conversation demonstrating the theoretical insights afforded by engaging both feminist phenomenology and feminist technoscience studies to explore our ways of being in and with the world. "
- Ericka Johnson, Professor of Gender and Society, Linköping University, Sweden

“This very timely and essential collection sets out the case not just for bringing the two areas of inquiry – feminist technoscience studies and critical phenomenology - into dialogue but for exposing their deep interdependence. Zeiler and Kӓll once again offer a rich resource that will be as engaging to postconventional philosophers as to those embracing highly empirical studies. With their scholarly but sensitive introductions to the contributions of each section, they skillfully guide the reader through three major areas – subjectivities, embodiment and affectivity – of lived experience to emphasise the need for an inherently interdisciplinary reading.”
- Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden

“In bringing together feminist theorising about embodied subjectivity through phenomenology, with critical perspectives about how bodies are situated within, and shaped by, material and discursive forces, this volume offers a range of engaging and provocative chapters that forge new theoretical ground in feminist scholarship. Considering the experience and formation of subjectivity within diverse topics, such as technology, pregnancy, prostheses, ageing and death, the essays in this book provide fascinating reflections about what it means to be a situated, relational, feeling and embodied subject in a world shaped by power, technology and artefacts. This volume will become essential reading in both feminist STS and feminist phenomenology, enriching theoretical methodologies in a range of debates and disciplinary approaches.”
- Luna Dolezal, Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter, UK