Description
A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science
About the Author
Vicki Kirby is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Judith Butler: Live Theory and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal.
Reviews
"Vicki Kirby's Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large has the capacity to influence a wide range of contemporary scholars ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences and back again. Its elegant yet complex title reveals a lot of what the book has to say." - Iris van der Tuin, Somatechnics
"To read Vicki Kirby's work is to encounter feminist theory as if for the first time-the urgency, impact, and sheer pleasure of feminist politics are being written anew. Quantum Anthropologies deliberates on our most elemental questions (What is the body? What is nature?) and argues brilliantly for ontologies that are systemic patternments of textuality and humanicity. This is a fearless book that will deepen and intensify the kinds of feminist questions that can be asked in the generation ahead."-Elizabeth A. Wilson, author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body
"Vicki Kirby is a leading theorist of new materialist approaches to feminism, and Quantum Anthropologies is a work of great significance. It is a theoretically sound and robust challenge to our most deeply held ideas about nature versus culture. Provocative, smart, and invigorating, it is a book to think with, one with far-reaching implications for science studies, cultural studies, and poststructuralist, feminist, queer, political, and social theory."-Karen Barad, author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
"Vicki Kirby's Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large has the capacity to influence a wide range of contemporary scholars ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences and back again. Its elegant yet complex title reveals a lot of what the book has to say." -- Iris van der Tuin * Somatechnics *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822350736
Author Vicki Kirby
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 254g