[ePub] Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture by Jennifer Wallis at Arts-Photography

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The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discoursesmdash;like speculative realism; object-oriented ontology (OOO); and new materialismmdash;that take objects; things; stuff; and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too; with all of its accompanying political and ethical potentials. This volume places OOF thought in a long history of ongoing feminist work in multiple disciplines. In particular; object-oriented feminism foregrounds three significant aspects of feminist thinking in the philosophy of things: politics; engaging with histories of treating certain humans (women; people of color; and the poor) as objects; erotics; employing humor to foment unseemly entanglements between things; and ethics; refusing to make grand philosophical truth claims; instead staking a modest ethical position that arrives at being ldquo;in the rightrdquo; by being ldquo;wrong.rdquo;Seeking not to define object-oriented feminism but rather to enact it; the volume is interdisciplinary in approach; with contributors from a variety of fields; including sociology; anthropology; English; art; and philosophy. Topics are frequently provocative; engaging a wide range of theorists from Heidegger and Levinas to Irigaray and Haraway; and an intriguing diverse array of objects; including the female body as fetish object in Lolita subculture; birds made queer by endocrine disruptors; and truth claims arising in material relations in indigenous fiction and film. Intentionally; each essay can be seen as an ldquo;objectrdquo; in relation to others in this collection. Contributors: Irina Aristarkhova; University of Michigan; Karen Gregory; University of Edinburgh; Marina Gržinić; Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts; Frenchy Lunning; Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Timothy Morton; Rice University; Anne Pollock; Georgia Tech; Elizabeth A. Povinelli; Columbia University; R. Joshua Scannell; CUNY Graduate Center; Adam Zaretsky; VASTAL.