The non/inhuman within: beyond the biopolitical intrauterine imaginary
Journal article
Authors | McCloskey, Paula |
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Abstract | In the context of the increasingly entangled, devastating markers of this time (climate crises, unfettered capitalism, tribal nationalism, increasing borders, species extinction), this paper stakes a claim for the importance of attending to the human intrauterine as a way to connect with non/inhuman alterity. It is argued that the intrauterine phenomena, as a process experienced by all humans, has a part to play in understanding “humanness”, human connectedness to nonhumanness, which can be used as part of a wider strategy to re-imagine collaboratively and with co-response-ability ways to live and survive within multispecies landscapes. Methodologically, Karen Barad’s diffractive approach is used to explore the intrauterine as a time-space of affect and connection between the human and nonhuman. With this approach, the paper assembles selected philosophers, alongside a re-reading of Mary Kelly’s Antepartum (1973) in the proposal of an intrauterine imaginary unhitched from the biopolitical. In doing so, it seeks to re-draw some of the boundaries around the intrauterine imaginary, to propose how paying attention to the non/inhuman of the human intrauterine might generate images and ideas of connections and co-response-ability beyond birth, between humans and more than humans. |
Keywords | intrauterine; intra-action; agential realism; response-ability; feminist art practice; Mary Kelly; biopolitical; affect; insensible |
Year | 2021 |
Journal | Studies in Gender and Sexuality |
Journal citation | 22 (3), pp. 174-191 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 1940-9206 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1961494 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hsgs20/21/2?nav=tocList |
hdl:10545/625507 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | 24 Sep 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 12 Jan 2021, 17:07 |
Accepted | 26 Jul 2021 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | License File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Restricted |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9273w/the-non-inhuman-within-beyond-the-biopolitical-intrauterine-imaginary
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