117 research outputs found
Re-vitalizing the American Feminist-Philosophical Classroom: Transformative Academic Experimentations with Diffractive Pedagogies
This chapter touches upon the damaging impact of neoliberal reason on institutions of higher education, and my efforts as a teacher to help turn things around by re-vitalizing the classroom. After a critique of current neoliberal âborderline timesâ, the chapter takes the reader on a journey of diffractive re-imaginings in which I share some of my experiences of co-learning with undergraduates in an American feminist-philosophical classroom. My central argument is that the neoliberalism-induced crisis in education can be affirmatively counteracted through experimentations with various posthuman and new materialist theories, and the Harawayan-Baradian methodology of diffraction in particular. Furthermore, informed by the impression that theory and pedagogical praxis go hand in hand in many contemporary feminist new materialisms, I zoom in on daily acts of resistance against the neoliberal corporatization of the American university, acts that actualized themselves as feminist new materialist pedagogies. Three examples of diffractive pedagogical strategies are then discussed in detail
Klasyfiksacja w Teorii Feministycznej
In her article, Iris van der Tuin engages in a discussion concerning the way categorization and classification work and organize theoretical inquiries. The author elaborates closely on classification of feminist epistemology introduced by Sandra Harding in her book The Science Question, where the three strands are recognized: âfeminist empiricismâ, âfeminist standpoint theoryâ, and âfeminist postmodernismâ. Van der Tuin offers the term classifixation to demonstrate that classification is not a neutral mediator and that the way scholars establish canon matters epistemologically and politically. With her method of âjumping-generationsâ van der Tuin presents new materialisms and how new materialist cartographies work to overcome dualist thinking structures
Microaggressions as New Political Material for Feminist Scholars and Activists : Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, the New Materialisms, and Popular Culture
This article discusses microaggressions as new political material for feminist scholars and activists. The article asks how the new materialisms may contribute to the conceptualisation and operationalisation of microaggressions. After all, and taking them at face value, the ontological status of microaggressions and their modes of operation are fascinating: what are these allegedly infinitesimal hostilities? How do they reach their target and, once they have arrived there, how do they take effect? What assumptions about the constituents of the world do scholars and activists make when, through language they imply that microaggressions are indeed âout thereâ and therefore researchable? Case studies around micropsychological dynamics that have come to my attention through National Public Radioâs podcast Invisibilia as well as the French philosophical work of FĂ©lix Ravaisson (1813â1900) and Henri Bergson (1859â1941) will help to unfold my argument. Invisibilia is here taken to be an instance of new materialist popular culture, and whilst Ravaissonian philosophy has influenced the philosophical work of Bergson, the work of both men contributes to the continental philosophical impetus of the new materialisms
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