New Feminist Materialsm
Annual Conference Landelijk Netwerk Vrouwenstudies Filosofie
The theme of this year's annual conference of the Dutch Network for Gender studies in Philosophy is ‘new feminist materialism’. It is inspired by the dissertation of dr. Iris van der Tuin (UU). In her thesis, Van der Tuin discusses the new feminist epistemologies that she classifies as ‘new materialism’.
Speakers: dr. Iris van der Tuin (UU) and dr. Rick Dolphijn (UU).
The conference will be concluded with a panel discussion.
Participants: prof. dr. Hub Zwart (Radboud University), dr. Veronica Vasterling (Radboud University) and drs. Eliza Steinbock (UvA).
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ElizaAbstract: New Feminist Materialism: On Second- and Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology Iris van der Tuin
This paper will provide a cartography of ‘new feminist materialism’. This contemporary, third-wave feminist epistemology thinks about the way in which physical and bodily matter is an active participant in processes of signification and knowledge production. As such, it comments on the linguistic paradigm in feminist theory, the apotheosis of which is to be found in the work of Judith Butler. The paper will visit three sets of feminist epistemologists: Rosi Braidotti, who coined the term ‘new materialism’ in the 1990s, and Butler; Sandra Harding and Donna Haraway; and Claire Colebrook and Karen Barad, members of the new generation. The paper will address their takes on matter and the ‘material-semiotic’, as well as their generational politics. It will argue that the new feminist materialism is non-dualist in two ways: materiality and linguistics are conceptualized as intra-active, and so is the relation between contemporary feminist theory and the theories of the so-called founding mothers of our field.
Abstract: Feminism’s Minor Histories Rick Dolphijn
The three sets of feminist epistemologies discussed by van der Tuin reveal the coming of a very different body. Of course this is a body dehumanized, as in moving away from a masculine major that has dominated our thinking for such a long time. Yet at the same time, other revolutions have been set in movement. There are movements towards wholly other notions of the different (from a difference in kind to a difference in degree), of the body (from the extensive, the calculable grid, to the intensive, the incalculable matter field) and of expression (from the linguistic static order to the a pragmatics of affect, force and movement). In this presentation, making reference to the authors discussed by van der Tuin, I propose to reread this new feminist materialism by means of these three histories. By no means in order to embed feminism into general themes in academic thought, but all the more in order to get a better grip on the radicalism of feminist thought in all of its creativity.
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