Essays about: "Stacy Alaimo"

Found 2 essays containing the words Stacy Alaimo.

  1. 1. Gut Feeling : Art and Food Digested: Figuring a Post-Human Intestinal Turn

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Sarah Guarino Werner; [2023]
    Keywords : Post-Humanism; Post-Human Subjectivity; Figuration; Vital Matter; Vibrant Matter; Trans- Corporeality; Bodies of Water; Gut Feminism; Gut Feeling; Feminism; Posthuman Food; The Intestinal System; Stacy Alaimo; Rosi Braidotti; Astrida Neimanis Jane Bennett; Elizabeth A. Wilson; Cooking Sections; Climavore; Non-Bar; Sean Raspet;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to develop a new methodological concept better to understand art and curating in a post-human setting. Departing from a post-humanist ontology, my initial idea was to analyse contemporary artworks dealing with food and trace and substantiate a figuration of the gut/intestinal system (connected to post-human notions as the ideas of trans- corporeality, vibrant matter, etc. READ MORE

  3. 2. Natureculture Origined : An intersectional feminist study of notions of the natural, the healthy and the Palaeolithic past in the popular science imaginary of biomechanics

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Åsa Johansson; [2015]
    Keywords : gender; class; corporeality; intersectionality; feminist cultural studies; biomechanics; popular science;

    Abstract : Situated in a time of advanced technoscience and new materialist feminist humanities/social sciences, this thesis explores how popular science renditions of biomechanics contribute to transforming imaginaries about “the natural” and “healthy”. It does so by zooming in on biomechanical scientist Katy Bowman’s pervasive and life-style commitment-requiring teaching. READ MORE