Binding: Paperback
Description: Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other always in the process of becoming and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has over the past decade crept into continental philosophy queer theory and feminist postcolonial techno - science media and race studies as well as into architecture history and anthropology. This collection provides a core introduction to Braidotti's nomadic theory and its innovative formulations which playfully engage with Deleuze Foucault Irigaray and a host of political and cultural issues. Arranged thematically essays begin with such concepts as sexual difference and embodied subjectivity and follow with explorations in technoscience feminism postsecular citizenship and the politics of affirmation. Braidotti develops a distinctly positive critical theory that rejuvenates the experience of political scholarship. Inspired yet not confined by Deleuzian vitalism with its commitment to the ontology of flows networks and dynamic transformations she emphasizes affects imagination and creativity and the politics of radical immanence. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Spinoza as well Braidotti establishes a critical - theoretical framework equal parts critique and creation. Ever mindful of the perils of defining difference in terms of denigration and the related tendency to subordinate sexualized racialized and naturalized others she explores the eco - philosophical implications of nomadic theory feminism and the irreducibility of sexual difference and sexuality. Her dialogue with technoscience is crucial to nomadic theory which deterritorializes the established understanding of what counts as human along with our relationship to animals the environment and changing notions of materialism. Keeping her distance from the near - obsessive focus on vulnerability trauma and melancholia in contemporary political thought Braidotti promotes a politics of affirmation that has the potential to become its own generative life force.
Title: Nomadic Theory The Portable Rosi Braidotti
Author(s): Braidotti Rosi (Distinguished Professor In The Humanities Utrecht University)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231151917
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 2/7/2012
Category: Political Science & Theory