Alaimo
Biographic Data
| ID | 52642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alaimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Alaimo |
| SIGNATURE | ALAIMO |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6891-1343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 397 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Afterword
Despite initial skepticism regarding the idea that narrative is a potent mode for generating multispecies justice, this afterword underscores the compelling arguments in the introduction to this special section. Then, the essay offers a response to several of the ideas, analyses, and examples presented by the essays in this collection, with a focus on conceptions of relationality, the subjects of justice, not-knowing but learning, and practices o…
Vibrant Death
Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book’s ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonia…
Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone
Transcorporeality
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 li…
Standing
Standing Stacy Alaimo (bio) Sarah Cameron Sunde's 36.5 undertakes an elemental reckoning with the forces of the planet at a time when such forces can no longer be presumed to be timeless. The simplicity of the performance—one woman standing at the edge of the ocean at low tide, for twelve hours—silently proclaims that encounters with something as vast and inhuman as the tides must not too readily be cloaked in human language. The half day of stil…
Afterword
A s many academics debate who is the "anthro" of the anthropocene, often doing so from seemingly disembodied vantage points, this important collection of essays demonstrates that toxic embodiment is a crucial lens for rethinking the human, not as an abstract force acting on the world, but as fleshy beings who are inseparable from their transcorporeal entanglements within the world. While the public concern for toxins seems overshadowed by the und…
Undomesticated Ground
From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings—as well as of p…
Wanting All the Species to Be
This article responds to the question 'What do we Want?' posed to scholars in the feminist environmental humanities, by expressing the desire for a multitude of species to continue to exist through and beyond the era of the Sixth Great Extinction. Then, it questions who the 'we' is who would express this desire, and whether that category of enunciation presumes colonising, extractive, and falsely universalising positions. Is it possible to discon…
Introduction
Introduction:Science Studies and the Blue Humanities Stacy Alaimo (bio) I am pleased to introduce this special volume of Configurations, focused on science studies and the blue humanities. Scholarship in what Laura Winkiel, in her cogent introduction to a recent volume on "Hydro-Criticism," calls the "oceanic turn,"1 has been rapidly expanding, along with the theoretical, literary, and artistic projects that "think with water" more broadly.2 For …
Bodies of water
Feminismos transcorpóreos e o espaço ético da natureza
Postula-se, neste artigo, uma maior aproximação entre os estudos sobre o corpo, mais exatamente o feminismo corpóreo, e o conhecimento ambiental na filosofia e nos estudos culturais. Devido à associação tradicional da natureza a posturas essencialistas, a importância da materialidade tem sido pouco explorada na teoria feminista. Com a utilização do conceito de transcorporalidade - o tempo e espaço em que a corporalidade humana é inseparável da "n…
The Naked Word
The third chapter examines the significance of naked protest movements, arguing that by disrobing, they momentarily cast off the boundaries of the human. This allows for the imaging of corporeality not as a ground of static substance but as a place of possible connections, interconnections, actions, and ethical becomings. Exposing themselves, they dramatize how the material interchanges between human bodies, geographical places, and vast networks…
Eluding Capture
The second chapter explores how, although scientists and cultural theorists have denied or dismissed the sexual diversity of nonhuman animals, they are important for new materialism, animal studies, and queer, green politics. The wonder, awe, and pleasure of contemplating the countless modes of nonhuman sexual diversity, which pulse with desire and erotic ingenuity, may generate environmentalisms that are already fabulously queer.
Dwelling in the Dissolve
The introduction of Exposed briefly lays out the methodology, theories, arguments, and central questions of the book. It argues that a material sense of exposure and pleasure fosters ontologies, epistemologies, ethics, and politics that interconnect the human with the nonhuman, the inhuman and the more than human. As a cultural studies project, Exposed takes activist and other “low” practices seriously, as potent modes of political contestation.
Thinking as the Stuff of the World
The conclusion of Exposed critiques substantial paradigms by the ways of new materialism. It critiques object-oriented ontology by ways of material feminisms. It argues that there is no positions outside, no straight paths, no transparent global systems of knowledge, but only modest protests and precarious pleasures from within compromised locations shadowed by futures that will surely need repair.
Your Shell on Acid
The sixth chapter critiques the prevailing visual and theoretical models of the anthropocene from a material feminist perspective. It shifts the book’s focus from geological formations to the acidification of the ocean, insisting that the anthropocene must be thought with the countless sea creatures that will dissolve in mind.
Exposed
Exposed argues for a material feminist posthumanism that departs from the predominant modes of humanist transcendence in theory, science, consumerism, and popular culture. Featuring three sections, the book calls for an environmental stance in which humanity thinks, feels, and acts as the very stuff of the world. As a work within the environmental humanities, it grapples with climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, ocean conservation, envir…
Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea
Bring Your Shovel
Resilience, the ability to snap back or soldier on after adversity, favors the cheery, the chipper, and the ignorant who dwell in bliss.It tells us to just keep shopping through the apocalypse.For those who mourn the slaughter of sharks, the melting of the glaciers, the suffering of cetaceans subjected to sonar, and more, the ability to bounce back into a psychologically healthy state seems predicated on massive denial, on humanist insularity and…
Sexual Matters
Sexual Matters:Darwinian Feminisms and the Nonhuman Turn Stacy Alaimo (bio) At the start of the twenty-first century, the linguistic turn in the humanities has been contested by various positions that could be called the nonhuman turn. Thing theory, affect theory, object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, new materialisms, material feminisms, animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism jostle together, merge, and diverge. Whereas some stra…
States of Suspension
To suspend: “To debar temporarily, especially from a privilege.” “To hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information.” “To keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support as buoyancy.” “To keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation).” In Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, I argue for a conception of trans-corporeality that traces the material interchanges across human bodies, animal …
New Materialisms, Old Humanisms, or, Following the Submersible
The question of how we should relate to that which we cannot control is still up for grabs, and as this question has become displaced, along with the wilderness, into the ocean deeps and the depths
Det nakna ordet - Den protesterande kroppens transkorporala etik
This essay brings feminist corporeal theories and material feminisms to bear upon the many naked protests occurring worldwide, asking how the naked body functions within these events. While most feminist corporeal theories remain within the demarcation of the Human, the naked protests considered here extend human corporeality into actual places, enacting nakedness as an ethical performance of vulnerability – the allied, mutual vulnerabilities of …
Your Shell On Acid
Bodily Natures
Listen to a New Books in Critical Theory podcast with the author
Exposed
Exposed argues for a material feminist posthumanism that departs from the predominant modes of humanist transcendence in theory, science, consumerism, and popular culture. Featuring three sections, the book calls for an environmental stance in which humanity thinks, feels, and acts as the very stuff of the world. As a work within the environmental humanities, it grapples with climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, ocean conservation, envir…
Undomesticated Ground
From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings—as well as of p…
States of Suspension
To suspend: “To debar temporarily, especially from a privilege.” “To hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information.” “To keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support as buoyancy.” “To keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation).” In Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, I argue for a conception of trans-corporeality that traces the material interchanges across human bodies, animal …
Cyborg and Ecofeminist Interventions
Feminismos transcorpóreos e o espaço ético da natureza
Postula-se, neste artigo, uma maior aproximação entre os estudos sobre o corpo, mais exatamente o feminismo corpóreo, e o conhecimento ambiental na filosofia e nos estudos culturais. Devido à associação tradicional da natureza a posturas essencialistas, a importância da materialidade tem sido pouco explorada na teoria feminista. Com a utilização do conceito de transcorporalidade - o tempo e espaço em que a corporalidade humana é inseparável da "n…
The naked word
This essay brings feminist corporeal theories and material feminisms to bear upon the many naked protests occurring worldwide, asking how the naked body functions within these events. While most feminist corporeal theories remain within the demarcation of the Human, the naked protests considered here extend human corporeality into actual places, enacting nakedness as an ethical performance of vulnerability–the allied, mutual vulnerabilities of hu…
New Materialisms, Old Humanisms, or, Following the Submersible
The question of how we should relate to that which we cannot control is still up for grabs, and as this question has become displaced, along with the wilderness, into the ocean deeps and the depths
Ecofeminism without Nature
The essay 'Eco/Feminism, Non-Violence and the Future of Feminism' takes on an important issue within ecofeminism and feminist theory generally – the relationship between maternalism, pacifism, ecofeminism, and essentialism – arguing for new ways of reading 'eco/feminist' activism as an engaged mode of theory. Ironically, even though the purpose of the peace camp in Clayoquot Sound was to protest the logging of the rainforest, this essay does not …
Wanting All the Species to Be
This article responds to the question 'What do we Want?' posed to scholars in the feminist environmental humanities, by expressing the desire for a multitude of species to continue to exist through and beyond the era of the Sixth Great Extinction. Then, it questions who the 'we' is who would express this desire, and whether that category of enunciation presumes colonising, extractive, and falsely universalising positions. Is it possible to discon…
Introduction
Introduction:Science Studies and the Blue Humanities Stacy Alaimo (bio) I am pleased to introduce this special volume of Configurations, focused on science studies and the blue humanities. Scholarship in what Laura Winkiel, in her cogent introduction to a recent volume on "Hydro-Criticism," calls the "oceanic turn,"1 has been rapidly expanding, along with the theoretical, literary, and artistic projects that "think with water" more broadly.2 For …
Insurgent Vulnerability and the Carbon Footprint of Gender
Gendered stances, styles, practices, and modesof thought permeate the representations of the science of climate change, the activist response to climate change, and modes of consumerism responsible for releasing massive quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. This article critiques two predominant forms of masculinity - the masculinity of aggressive consumption that has increased the carbon footprint of the U.S. and the free-floating, transcend…
Transcorporeality
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 li…
Bodies of water
Sexual Matters
Sexual Matters:Darwinian Feminisms and the Nonhuman Turn Stacy Alaimo (bio) At the start of the twenty-first century, the linguistic turn in the humanities has been contested by various positions that could be called the nonhuman turn. Thing theory, affect theory, object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, new materialisms, material feminisms, animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism jostle together, merge, and diverge. Whereas some stra…
Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone
Det nakna ordet - Den protesterande kroppens transkorporala etik
This essay brings feminist corporeal theories and material feminisms to bear upon the many naked protests occurring worldwide, asking how the naked body functions within these events. While most feminist corporeal theories remain within the demarcation of the Human, the naked protests considered here extend human corporeality into actual places, enacting nakedness as an ethical performance of vulnerability – the allied, mutual vulnerabilities of …
Cyborg and Ecofeminist Interventions
Endangered Humans
Research Article| May 01 1997 Endangered Humans?: Wired Bodies and the Human Wilds in Carnosaur, Carnosaur 2, and 12 Monkeys Stacy Alaimo Stacy Alaimo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1997) 14 (1-2 (40-41)): 226–242. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-14-1-2_40-41-226 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stacy Alaimo; Endangered Humans?: Wired Bod…
Multiculturalisma and Epistemic Rupture
Despite threat it poses to proponents of Western cultural supremacy, English-only movements, and desperate campaigns to whitewash U.S. curricula and culture, often serves to distance, contain, and control very it presumes to promote. If, as Stuart Hall contends, marginality never been such a productive space as it is now (467), dominant multicultural paradigm, operating simultaneously as a curricular structure and consumer ideal, territorializes …
Dream a Little
Journal Article Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America Get access Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America. By Kocks Dorothee E.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xx + 255 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, index. £28.50, cloth, UK; $45.00, cloth, US; £11.95, paper, UK; $18.95, paper, US.) Stacy Alaimo Stacy Alaimo University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Dying Planet
Reviewed by: Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination, and: Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars Stacy Alaimo (bio) Robert Markley, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 444 pp. $89.95, $24.95 paper. Robert Markley, Harrison Higgs, Michelle Kendrick, and Helen Burgess, with Jeanne Hamming, Dan Tripp, and Jeannette Okinczyc. Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Enc…
Ecofeminism without Nature
The essay 'Eco/Feminism, Non-Violence and the Future of Feminism' takes on an important issue within ecofeminism and feminist theory generally – the relationship between maternalism, pacifism, ecofeminism, and essentialism – arguing for new ways of reading 'eco/feminist' activism as an engaged mode of theory. Ironically, even though the purpose of the peace camp in Clayoquot Sound was to protest the logging of the rainforest, this essay does not …
Insurgent Vulnerability and the Carbon Footprint of Gender
Gendered stances, styles, practices, and modesof thought permeate the representations of the science of climate change, the activist response to climate change, and modes of consumerism responsible for releasing massive quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. This article critiques two predominant forms of masculinity - the masculinity of aggressive consumption that has increased the carbon footprint of the U.S. and the free-floating, transcend…
Your Shell On Acid
Bodily Natures
Listen to a New Books in Critical Theory podcast with the author
The naked word
This essay brings feminist corporeal theories and material feminisms to bear upon the many naked protests occurring worldwide, asking how the naked body functions within these events. While most feminist corporeal theories remain within the demarcation of the Human, the naked protests considered here extend human corporeality into actual places, enacting nakedness as an ethical performance of vulnerability–the allied, mutual vulnerabilities of hu…
New Materialisms, Old Humanisms, or, Following the Submersible
The question of how we should relate to that which we cannot control is still up for grabs, and as this question has become displaced, along with the wilderness, into the ocean deeps and the depths
Det nakna ordet - Den protesterande kroppens transkorporala etik
This essay brings feminist corporeal theories and material feminisms to bear upon the many naked protests occurring worldwide, asking how the naked body functions within these events. While most feminist corporeal theories remain within the demarcation of the Human, the naked protests considered here extend human corporeality into actual places, enacting nakedness as an ethical performance of vulnerability – the allied, mutual vulnerabilities of …
States of Suspension
To suspend: “To debar temporarily, especially from a privilege.” “To hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information.” “To keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support as buoyancy.” “To keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation).” In Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, I argue for a conception of trans-corporeality that traces the material interchanges across human bodies, animal …
Sexual Matters
Sexual Matters:Darwinian Feminisms and the Nonhuman Turn Stacy Alaimo (bio) At the start of the twenty-first century, the linguistic turn in the humanities has been contested by various positions that could be called the nonhuman turn. Thing theory, affect theory, object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, new materialisms, material feminisms, animal studies, biopolitics, and posthumanism jostle together, merge, and diverge. Whereas some stra…
Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea
Bring Your Shovel
Resilience, the ability to snap back or soldier on after adversity, favors the cheery, the chipper, and the ignorant who dwell in bliss.It tells us to just keep shopping through the apocalypse.For those who mourn the slaughter of sharks, the melting of the glaciers, the suffering of cetaceans subjected to sonar, and more, the ability to bounce back into a psychologically healthy state seems predicated on massive denial, on humanist insularity and…
The Naked Word
The third chapter examines the significance of naked protest movements, arguing that by disrobing, they momentarily cast off the boundaries of the human. This allows for the imaging of corporeality not as a ground of static substance but as a place of possible connections, interconnections, actions, and ethical becomings. Exposing themselves, they dramatize how the material interchanges between human bodies, geographical places, and vast networks…
Eluding Capture
The second chapter explores how, although scientists and cultural theorists have denied or dismissed the sexual diversity of nonhuman animals, they are important for new materialism, animal studies, and queer, green politics. The wonder, awe, and pleasure of contemplating the countless modes of nonhuman sexual diversity, which pulse with desire and erotic ingenuity, may generate environmentalisms that are already fabulously queer.
Dwelling in the Dissolve
The introduction of Exposed briefly lays out the methodology, theories, arguments, and central questions of the book. It argues that a material sense of exposure and pleasure fosters ontologies, epistemologies, ethics, and politics that interconnect the human with the nonhuman, the inhuman and the more than human. As a cultural studies project, Exposed takes activist and other “low” practices seriously, as potent modes of political contestation.
Thinking as the Stuff of the World
The conclusion of Exposed critiques substantial paradigms by the ways of new materialism. It critiques object-oriented ontology by ways of material feminisms. It argues that there is no positions outside, no straight paths, no transparent global systems of knowledge, but only modest protests and precarious pleasures from within compromised locations shadowed by futures that will surely need repair.
Your Shell on Acid
The sixth chapter critiques the prevailing visual and theoretical models of the anthropocene from a material feminist perspective. It shifts the book’s focus from geological formations to the acidification of the ocean, insisting that the anthropocene must be thought with the countless sea creatures that will dissolve in mind.
Exposed
Exposed argues for a material feminist posthumanism that departs from the predominant modes of humanist transcendence in theory, science, consumerism, and popular culture. Featuring three sections, the book calls for an environmental stance in which humanity thinks, feels, and acts as the very stuff of the world. As a work within the environmental humanities, it grapples with climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, ocean conservation, envir…
Feminismos transcorpóreos e o espaço ético da natureza
Postula-se, neste artigo, uma maior aproximação entre os estudos sobre o corpo, mais exatamente o feminismo corpóreo, e o conhecimento ambiental na filosofia e nos estudos culturais. Devido à associação tradicional da natureza a posturas essencialistas, a importância da materialidade tem sido pouco explorada na teoria feminista. Com a utilização do conceito de transcorporalidade - o tempo e espaço em que a corporalidade humana é inseparável da "n…
Bodies of water
Afterword
A s many academics debate who is the "anthro" of the anthropocene, often doing so from seemingly disembodied vantage points, this important collection of essays demonstrates that toxic embodiment is a crucial lens for rethinking the human, not as an abstract force acting on the world, but as fleshy beings who are inseparable from their transcorporeal entanglements within the world. While the public concern for toxins seems overshadowed by the und…
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