Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet

Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Speculative before the turn: Reintroducing feminist materialist performativity
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (The Posthumanities Hub)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7794-3806
Utrecht University, Gender Studies.
Utrecht University, School of Liberal Arts.
2015 (English)In: Cultural Studies Review, ISSN 1446-8123, E-ISSN 1837-8692, Vol. 21, no 2, p. 147-172Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Before the trains of thought have been firmly laid down, we ask in this article about the very nature and histories of the speculative of the speculative-materialist turn. We do this from the intertwined interfaces of curious feminist materialisms, foregrounding sexual difference, post-positivist critique and posthumanist performativity such as is being done in various strands of feminist theory today (new materialist feminism, new feminist science studies, feminist posthumanities etc.). The question of speculation plays a constitutive role in feminist critique and in several new or neo-materialist traditions. In fact, many interesting materialisms—Marxism, French feminism—can be named ‘speculative’. We argue that in spite of what the recent ‘speculative turn’ professes, speculative materialisms have a complex genealogy. Speculation functions transversally in a materialist genealogy (dis)-connecting the archive of feminist approaches in particular. In order to be able to imagine a different (feminist) world we need to think through a stifled and sexually differentiated present from which a qualitative shift and political breakthrough can be formulated, and hopefully achieved. However, in what is currently called ‘speculative realism’ or ‘object-oriented ontologies’ neither speculation nor the speculative are reflected upon as a heritage from and alliance with feminist and politically materialist positions. What are the onto-epistemological stakes of this body of work? And what ethico-political horizons are drawn here? We stand speculative before such turn.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) , 2015. Vol. 21, no 2, p. 147-172
Keywords [en]
feminist new materialisms, speculative realism, ooo, speculative feminisms, feminist posthumanities
National Category
Gender Studies Philosophy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-132114DOI: 10.5130/csr.v21i2.4324OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-132114DiVA, id: diva2:1037720
Projects
The Posthumanities HubAvailable from: 2016-10-17 Created: 2016-10-17 Last updated: 2021-09-29Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

Speculative Before the Turn?(395 kB)448 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 395 kBChecksum SHA-512
cfadbf4d974f77b81d4d9e712c92260327fb0c632d3635ee9e1db4ec01a3b253ddef5c3b3ac53fd543db8f338a34eb5167bd9509bfa46e231ff01c4461b675db
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full text

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Åsberg, Cecilia
By organisation
The Department of Gender StudiesFaculty of Arts and Sciences
In the same journal
Cultural Studies Review
Gender StudiesPhilosophy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 448 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 1175 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf