Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters: Ethical Co-Existence in More-than-Human Worlds - Hardcover

by Nina Lykke (Author), Katja Aglert (Author), Line Henriksen (Author)

Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters reclaims the notion of alien encounters together with strange, but queerly loved companions, Vulgar slugs, diatoms, and familiars, the book's three human co-authors ask: what would it take to establish more-than-human, bio- and geo-egalitarian co-existence on a planet in trouble?

Author Biography

Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark, and a poet and writer. Her research focuses on queer death studies, intersectionality, feminist posthumanism, and queer ecologies. Her monographs include Cosmodolphins (2000), Feminist Studies (2010), and Vibrant Death (2022).

Katja Aglert is a Stockholm-based artist and 2020-2022 Professor of Art, Linköping University, Sweden. For 20 years, she has explored transdisciplinary, often collaborative processes situated in feminist and more-than-human imaginaries. Her exhibitions include FLORA ars + natura, Bogotá; Marabouparken, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile.

Line Henriksen is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of the monograph In the Company of Ghosts: Hauntology, Ethics, Digital Monsters (2016), and her research interests include monster theory, hauntology, and creative writing as method.