Bodies of Water - Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology

Summary

Feminist scholar Astrida Neimanis starts from a plain fact: our bodies are mostly water, and water connects us to everything else. Drawing on Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, she develops a ‘posthuman feminist phenomenology’, a way of studying lived experience that treats bodies as part of the natural world, neither apart from it nor above it, with consequences for ecological ethics.

Rationale

It reaches interbeing through the body rather than through ideas, close to how we’ve come to see deep dispositions: held in bodies and ecologies as much as in minds.