article – Marietta Radomska

Exciting news! The long awaited part 2 of the special issue of the journal Somatechnics, focused on the ‘Somatechnics of Violence: (Im)material, Affective, and Digital Transformations’ is finally out!

I feel privileged to have had a chance to contribute with an article (available in Open Access) to this wonderful, brilliant, and particularly timely volume!

Big congratulations of course go to the special issue editors: Evelien Geerts, Chantelle Gray and Delphi Carstens, and to all the wonderful contributors!

HERE you can check the entire issue.

And of course you are warmly invited to check out my contribution “Mourning the More-Than-Human: Somatechnics of Environmental Violence, Ethical Imaginaries, and Arts of Eco-Grief”, available in OA.

The article also discusses and features visual artworks by artists and creators: Polina Choni (UA), and Eglė Plytnikaitė, Agnė Stirnė and Oskaras Stirna (LT).

More about the article:

Theoretically grounded in queer death studies and environmental humanities, this article has a twofold aim. Firstly, it explores the somatechnics of environmental violence in the context of Northern and Eastern Europe, while paying attention to ongoing ecocide inflicted by Russia on Ukraine, and to the post-WW2 chemical weapon dumps in the Baltic Sea. Secondly, the article examines the concept of eco-grief in its close relation to artistic narratives on ecocide. By bridging the discussion on environmental violence and artistic renderings of eco-grief, the article hopes to contribute to a better understanding of the socio-cultural responses to more-than-human death and loss, and their accompanying ethical imaginaries and affordances.

Keywords: contemporary art; ecocide; eco-grief; environmental humanities; environmental violence; queer death studies.

The special issue of Australian Feminist Studies focused on the topic of ‘Feminist Technoecologies’ (vol. 32, no 94) and edited by fantastic Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Pat Treusch and Xin Liu has just been published!

Here’s a little snippet from the introduction by the editors:

‘This special issue of Australian Feminist Studies is a collective effort to think with and through the notion of ‘feminist technoecologies’. One of the shared starting points of the contributions is that the term is not simply the conjoining, but a simultaneous reworking, of ‘technologies’ and ‘ecologies’, from various feminist perspectives. The articles provide critical responses to the contemporary challenges of environmental degradation, refugee crises and digital technologisation by asking how the boundary is drawn between the technological and the ecological, and how these distinctions are informed by implicit and explicit investments in the exceptional status of the human condition. They share the view that technology is not simply a neutral tool for management and advancement, any more than ecology is merely the environment, whose harmonious organisation becomes disturbed by human enterprises and technological interventions.’

(Lorenz-Meyer, Treusch & Xin Liu 2018: 351)

In the issue you can also find my my text ‘Non/living Matter, Bioscientific Imaginaries and Feminist Technoecologies of Bioart’ – available in OPEN ACCESS here.

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New publication: “Mourning the More-Than-Human: Somatechnics of Environmental Violence, Ethical Imaginaries, and Arts of Eco-Grief”

AFS’s special issue on ‘Feminist Technoecologies’ is out now!