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.