{"product_id":"vibrant-death-9781350187825","title":"Vibrant Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVibrant Death\u003c\/i\u003e 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 decolonial, queerfeminist poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua. The book's posthuman deexceptionalizing of human death unfurls together with a collection of poetry, and autobiographical stories. They are analysed through the lens of a posthuman, queerfeminist revision of the method of autophenomenography (phenomenological analysis of autobiographical material).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNina Lykke explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine I, who contemplates the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. She reflects on her enactment \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLykke challenges the entrenched dualist, Christian, secular, and colonial understandings of death and mourning by allowing her excessive mourning to continue unbounded ... By opening the door to a new understanding of death and mourning, Lykke leaves the reader with a deep sense of love and connection to the world and has us join her in asking, “what if every critter’s death was vibrant?” * Journal of Lesbian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eComposed of ashes, pearls, diatoms, longing and audacious thought, this book takes the reader beyond the life\/death threshold, to an encounter with the posthuman that is both spectral and inexorably material. Nina Lykke takes posthumanist scholarship to a new place. * Maggie MacLure, Professor Emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThrough an interweaving of dimensions such as photography, poetry, storytelling, opera, miraculous co-becomings and philosophical reflections, Vibrant Death invites us to a process of un-learning of death beyond the idea of static nothingness. This book is a radical, sensorial and transformative project * Katja Aglert, independent artist and Professor of Art, Linköping University, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003eVibrant Death is simply stunning across all registers: affective, methodological, theoretical and poetic. As a magical “travelogue”, its range and depth of inquiry around the issues of death and mourning are fearless and startlingly innovative. Lykke gives us a relentlessly posthuman, queerfeminist text that beautifully exemplifies an erotics of connection. * Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOverture: Travelling to the World of the Dead – A Triptych\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 1: Queering Death and Posthumanizing Mourning  - Introduction  \u003ci\u003eInterlude I: Lacrimoso e Lamentoso (Crying and Lamenting)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 2: The Excessive Mourner  \u003ci\u003eInterlude II: Vibrato Bruscamente (Abruptly Vibrating)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 3. The Vibrant Corpse  \u003ci\u003eInterlude III: Silenzio Appasionato (Passionate Silence)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 4: Is the Wall of Silence Breachable?  \u003ci\u003eInterlude IV: Ardente e Ondeggiante (Burning and Undulating)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 5: Miraculous Co-Becomings?  \u003ci\u003eInterlude V: Milagrosa (Miraculous)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 6: Pluriversal Conversations on Immanent Miracles  \u003ci\u003eInterlude VI: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlissando (Gliding Between Pitches)\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 7: Doing Posthuman Autophenomenography, Poetics, and Divinatory Figuring  \u003ci\u003eInterlude VII: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCon Abbandono e Devozione (With Self-Abandon and Devotion)\u003c\/i\u003e  Coda - Between Love-Death and a Posthuman Ethics of Vibrant Death\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019634671959,"sku":"9781350187825","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350187825.jpg?v=1750780854","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vibrant-death-9781350187825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}