Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropology, geography, environmental philosophies and animal studies, thi…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

TARAMASCOPUS

TARAMASCOPUS

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

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This essay explores the impact of the posthuman turn on ecocriticism. It proposes that posthuman ecocriticism is a more engaged, more diffractive mode of reading the co-evolution of organisms and inorganic matter in their hybrid configurations. Simply put, ecocriticism becomes post-human, post-natural, and post-green…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

Taking into account the material feminist theories of "agency," "matter," and "body," this essay examines to what extent material feminisms and trans-corporeality can be productive models for conceptualizing feminist ecocriticism, an anti-phallogocentric ecocritical theory that analyzes the complex dynamics of materia…

• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

In one narrow street (but none of them are wide) I saw three dogs lying coiled up, about a foot or two apart. End to end they lay, and so they just bridged the street neatly, gutter to gutter. A drove of a hundred sheep came along. They stepped right over the dogs, the rear crowding the front, impatient to get on. The…

• KIM LUANA FORTUNY

The world in which we live today is a world of migrations—processes that happen across borders and in spite of the tendency of building new frontiers, new fences. Living species, human groups, things and goods, as well as pathogens, germs, microbes, and viruses are constantly on the move. Some of them are driven by th…

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• SERPİL GÜLSÜM OPPERMANN

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Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) pictures a futuristic world in which every body is technologically, discursively, and materially constructed. First of all, The Stone Gods foregrounds the futuristic conceptualization of embodiment and posthuman gendered bodies in relation to biotechnology, biogenetics, and r…

• KERİM CAN YAZGÜNOĞLU