Helen Hester
Biographic Data
| ID | 658636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Hester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hester |
| SIGNATURE | HESTER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8511-8846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prometheische Arbeit und häuslicher Realismus
Ich kritisiere in diesem Essay die fragmentierte feministische Politik und plädiere für ein »prometheisches« Denken – eine ambitionierte, technik- und systemorientierte Politik gegen den neoliberalen Kapitalismus. Wie kann Prometheismus mit feministischen Anliegen zusammengedacht werden, vor allem im Verhältnis zur sozialen Reproduktion und zur häuslichen Sphäre? Mit Rekurs auf die feministischen Hausarbeitsdebatten, besonders seit den 1970er-Jah…
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There
What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work with us and eliminate the pains? The answer: we need a post-work vision. Questioning the received wisdom that work is good for you, that you are what you do and that 'any job is a good job',Post-workoffers a new challenge to the work-centred society.…
Space Agency
This essay looks at the figure of the cyborg via its origins in mid-twentieth century American astronautics. It begins by comparing different approaches to the ›space cyborg‹, helping to situate it within the distinctive cultural preoccupations of its times and places. The discussion then proceeds to consider the American cyborg’s roots in two discursive regimes: that surrounding military masculinities, and that surrounding the non-human or de-hu…
The Art of the Exploit: Gender Hacking and Political Agency
This article considers the idea of gender hacking, particularly as it circulates in Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie, and places this in the context of wider discourses of both bio- and computer hacking. Of particular interest is how a hacking paradigm has come to inform twenty-first-century theories of activist intervention, and the implications of this for contemporary conceptions of political agency. Drawing out the parallels between conceptual…
Sapience + Care: Reason and Responsibility in Posthuman Politics
Posthumanism can be understood as a position that de-prioritizes or rescinds the privilege of the human in some way – frequently by attempting to think humanity as one element of a wider ecology of interdependent forces. This paper argues that one can be on the side of the human without neglecting the assemblages of which we are all a part – by conceiving of humanity as a site of nascent potential for sapience + care – an alienated understanding …
IMedia: The gendering of objects, environments and smart materials Sarah Kember
Echoing flesh: The ‘voluminous body’ in heterosexual hard core
This article examines the representation of fatness in heterosexual hard-core pornography whilst exploring both the usefulness and potential limitations of applying Jean François Lyotard’s ideas about the ‘voluminous body’ to this topic. The article reflects critically upon the supposedly transgressive potential of the fat cis female body in adult entertainment and, using examples from BBW (Big Beautiful Women) pornography, reflects upon the ways…
Introduction: Theorizing fat sex
This special issue takes as its starting point an evident need to theorize fat sex – the need to think about how fat bodies are eroticized or excluded from eroticization, their investment with erotic and cultural capital in the 21st century, and their points of intersection with forms of embodied oppression such as race, class and gender
Giffing a fuck: Non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and female fandom
Pornography has long been associated with the development of leading-edge technologies and new media forms, so it should be of little surprise that adult entertainment now circulates online in the form of moving-image GIFs – the 256-colour compressed image files ubiquitous within digital culture. Several critics and cultural commentators have picked up on the rise of this so-called ‘microporn', linking sexually explicit GIFs with supposedly dimin…
Rethinking Transgression: Disgust, Affect, and Sexuality in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands
This article explores the critical reaction to Charlotte Roche's novel Wetlands, and considers the ways in which this reaction reflects contemporary thinking on sex and transgression. While reviewers position the text as the site of a subversive politics and a specifically sexualized form of affect, much of the affective power of Wetlands lies less in its treatment of sex than in its largely ignored descriptions of the revolting body. Via an anal…
Giffing a fuck: Non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and female fandom
Pornography has long been associated with the development of leading-edge technologies and new media forms, so it should be of little surprise that adult entertainment now circulates online in the form of moving-image GIFs – the 256-colour compressed image files ubiquitous within digital culture. Several critics and cultural commentators have picked up on the rise of this so-called ‘microporn', linking sexually explicit GIFs with supposedly dimin…
Rethinking Transgression: Disgust, Affect, and Sexuality in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands
This article explores the critical reaction to Charlotte Roche's novel Wetlands, and considers the ways in which this reaction reflects contemporary thinking on sex and transgression. While reviewers position the text as the site of a subversive politics and a specifically sexualized form of affect, much of the affective power of Wetlands lies less in its treatment of sex than in its largely ignored descriptions of the revolting body. Via an anal…
Sapience + Care: Reason and Responsibility in Posthuman Politics
Posthumanism can be understood as a position that de-prioritizes or rescinds the privilege of the human in some way – frequently by attempting to think humanity as one element of a wider ecology of interdependent forces. This paper argues that one can be on the side of the human without neglecting the assemblages of which we are all a part – by conceiving of humanity as a site of nascent potential for sapience + care – an alienated understanding …
Rethinking Transgression: Disgust, Affect, and Sexuality in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands
This article explores the critical reaction to Charlotte Roche's novel Wetlands, and considers the ways in which this reaction reflects contemporary thinking on sex and transgression. While reviewers position the text as the site of a subversive politics and a specifically sexualized form of affect, much of the affective power of Wetlands lies less in its treatment of sex than in its largely ignored descriptions of the revolting body. Via an anal…
Giffing a fuck: Non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and female fandom
Pornography has long been associated with the development of leading-edge technologies and new media forms, so it should be of little surprise that adult entertainment now circulates online in the form of moving-image GIFs – the 256-colour compressed image files ubiquitous within digital culture. Several critics and cultural commentators have picked up on the rise of this so-called ‘microporn', linking sexually explicit GIFs with supposedly dimin…
Echoing flesh: The ‘voluminous body’ in heterosexual hard core
This article examines the representation of fatness in heterosexual hard-core pornography whilst exploring both the usefulness and potential limitations of applying Jean François Lyotard’s ideas about the ‘voluminous body’ to this topic. The article reflects critically upon the supposedly transgressive potential of the fat cis female body in adult entertainment and, using examples from BBW (Big Beautiful Women) pornography, reflects upon the ways…
Introduction: Theorizing fat sex
This special issue takes as its starting point an evident need to theorize fat sex – the need to think about how fat bodies are eroticized or excluded from eroticization, their investment with erotic and cultural capital in the 21st century, and their points of intersection with forms of embodied oppression such as race, class and gender
IMedia: The gendering of objects, environments and smart materials Sarah Kember
Sapience + Care: Reason and Responsibility in Posthuman Politics
Posthumanism can be understood as a position that de-prioritizes or rescinds the privilege of the human in some way – frequently by attempting to think humanity as one element of a wider ecology of interdependent forces. This paper argues that one can be on the side of the human without neglecting the assemblages of which we are all a part – by conceiving of humanity as a site of nascent potential for sapience + care – an alienated understanding …
Space Agency
This essay looks at the figure of the cyborg via its origins in mid-twentieth century American astronautics. It begins by comparing different approaches to the ›space cyborg‹, helping to situate it within the distinctive cultural preoccupations of its times and places. The discussion then proceeds to consider the American cyborg’s roots in two discursive regimes: that surrounding military masculinities, and that surrounding the non-human or de-hu…
The Art of the Exploit: Gender Hacking and Political Agency
This article considers the idea of gender hacking, particularly as it circulates in Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie, and places this in the context of wider discourses of both bio- and computer hacking. Of particular interest is how a hacking paradigm has come to inform twenty-first-century theories of activist intervention, and the implications of this for contemporary conceptions of political agency. Drawing out the parallels between conceptual…
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There
What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work with us and eliminate the pains? The answer: we need a post-work vision. Questioning the received wisdom that work is good for you, that you are what you do and that 'any job is a good job',Post-workoffers a new challenge to the work-centred society.…
Prometheische Arbeit und häuslicher Realismus
Ich kritisiere in diesem Essay die fragmentierte feministische Politik und plädiere für ein »prometheisches« Denken – eine ambitionierte, technik- und systemorientierte Politik gegen den neoliberalen Kapitalismus. Wie kann Prometheismus mit feministischen Anliegen zusammengedacht werden, vor allem im Verhältnis zur sozialen Reproduktion und zur häuslichen Sphäre? Mit Rekurs auf die feministischen Hausarbeitsdebatten, besonders seit den 1970er-Jah…
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