Posthuman phenomenologies for planetary bodies of water
pp. 55-66
in: Cecilia Åsberg, Rosi Braidotti (eds), A feminist companion to the posthumanities, Berlin, Springer, 2018Abstract
Our blood, biles, humours; our lubrications and ingestions; the rivulets that make their way from our inside to out, from watery womb to watery world – we are bodies of water. As such, we are not on the one hand embodied (with all of the cultural and metaphysical investments of this concept) while on the other hand primarily constituted of water (with all of the attendant biological, chemical and physiological implications). Rather we are both of these things at once – mostly made of watery matter, as well as an expression of water as a conceptual figure. We live at the site of exponential material meaning that emerges where embodiment meets water.