Annette-Carina Van Der Zaag
Biographic Data
| ID | 188500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette-Carina Van Der Zaag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette-Carina |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Zaag |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER ZAAG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0037-9201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unbearable Sensorium
Touching Wounds
What if our politics are shaped by the texture of wounds rather than the identity of selves? What possible future will have been opened up by posing that very question? I take up Eve Sedgwick’s invitation to begin with stigma “as a near-inexhaustible source of transformational energy” for a transformative queer politics and elaborate Sedgwick’s attention to spoiled identity through Hortense Spiller’s conceptualization of the flesh. The flesh subs…
C’est grave
This article addresses the racializing logic of white feminism and its alignment with white heteronormative registers of human life. It does so by considering Julia Ducournau’s (2017) film Raw in relation to cannibalism’s intersections of gender, sexuality and race. The film invokes feminist pleasures, centring on female desire and pitting Justine’s compulsive appetites against an inflexible social hierarchy of gender and species. However, its ar…
Imaginings of Empowerment and the Biomedical Production of Bodies
In this paper, I will explore the development of vaginal microbicides (female-initiated HIV prevention methods designed as gels, films, sponges and rings women can insert vaginally before having sex to protect themselves against HIV infection) as a women’s health intervention that entangles feminist ideals of empowerment with biomedical enterprise. The field of vaginal microbicide development pays heed to both the specific biological vulnerabilit…
On posthuman subjectivity
The posthuman condition urges us to think critically and creatively about who and what we are actually in the process of becoming. (p. 12) The Posthuman is situated at a pertinent analytical junctu
When Debility Provides a Future
In this article we investigate the way in which viral load assays are used to assess the viruses of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive pregnant women who are cared for in an HIV-specialist antenatal clinic in London. One of the viral load assays has been made more sensitive to subtypes of the virus that are considered to be local, possibly reading the viruses of those who have 'foreign' subtypes as undetectable. Consequently, the patient…
On posthuman subjectivity
The posthuman condition urges us to think critically and creatively about who and what we are actually in the process of becoming. (p. 12) The Posthuman is situated at a pertinent analytical junctu
When Debility Provides a Future
In this article we investigate the way in which viral load assays are used to assess the viruses of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive pregnant women who are cared for in an HIV-specialist antenatal clinic in London. One of the viral load assays has been made more sensitive to subtypes of the virus that are considered to be local, possibly reading the viruses of those who have 'foreign' subtypes as undetectable. Consequently, the patient…
When Debility Provides a Future
In this article we investigate the way in which viral load assays are used to assess the viruses of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive pregnant women who are cared for in an HIV-specialist antenatal clinic in London. One of the viral load assays has been made more sensitive to subtypes of the virus that are considered to be local, possibly reading the viruses of those who have 'foreign' subtypes as undetectable. Consequently, the patient…
On posthuman subjectivity
The posthuman condition urges us to think critically and creatively about who and what we are actually in the process of becoming. (p. 12) The Posthuman is situated at a pertinent analytical junctu
Imaginings of Empowerment and the Biomedical Production of Bodies
In this paper, I will explore the development of vaginal microbicides (female-initiated HIV prevention methods designed as gels, films, sponges and rings women can insert vaginally before having sex to protect themselves against HIV infection) as a women’s health intervention that entangles feminist ideals of empowerment with biomedical enterprise. The field of vaginal microbicide development pays heed to both the specific biological vulnerabilit…
Touching Wounds
What if our politics are shaped by the texture of wounds rather than the identity of selves? What possible future will have been opened up by posing that very question? I take up Eve Sedgwick’s invitation to begin with stigma “as a near-inexhaustible source of transformational energy” for a transformative queer politics and elaborate Sedgwick’s attention to spoiled identity through Hortense Spiller’s conceptualization of the flesh. The flesh subs…
C’est grave
This article addresses the racializing logic of white feminism and its alignment with white heteronormative registers of human life. It does so by considering Julia Ducournau’s (2017) film Raw in relation to cannibalism’s intersections of gender, sexuality and race. The film invokes feminist pleasures, centring on female desire and pitting Justine’s compulsive appetites against an inflexible social hierarchy of gender and species. However, its ar…
Unbearable Sensorium
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Posthuman (2 works)