Figurations of Water
On Pathogens, Purity, and Contamination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774865 |
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| Authors | Agnieszka Pantuchowicz (0000-0003-3238-0864) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-127 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2023.2167789 |
| OpenAlex | W4321453270 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The paper addresses some rhetorical uses of the figure of water management from the perspective of an affirmative approach to contamination which Derrida saw as constitutive of affirmation itself. Contaminated water and its discontents discussed in the text frequently appears in various kinds of writings as a frightening figure of contamination which simultaneously brings in the figure of water management as a way of controlling the purity of cultural exchanges and transmissions in which, as Caroline Petronius puts it, contagion journeys out of medicine into culture. The paper also addresses water and its management from the perspective of Astrida Neimanis’s liquidizing of the border between the solid and the fluid as a border between the human and the inhuman. This perspective opens up the sphere of mutual contamination of the human and the inhuman and translates posthumanist theoretical positions into spheres of affirmative exchanges managed not by masters, but by Donna Haraway’s companion species whom, or which, we all are
Aesthetics · Art · Contamination · Environmental ethics · Literature · Perspective (graphical · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Visual arts · Water contamination · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology · History · Philosophy
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Vulnerability and the Sovereign Individual
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Outlaws, barbarians, slaves
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities
The Writing on the Stall
| Highly cited | No |
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