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16Antiquities Beyond Humanism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of Western humanism. This paradigm has been increasingly thrown into question by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces, and systems that pass through andbeyond the human and which dislodge it from its primacy as the measure of things. Antiquities beyond Humanism seeks to explode this presumed dichotomy between the ancient tradition and the twenty-first cent…Read more
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4Chapter Sixteen. READING SPECULUM AGAINIn Mary C. Rawlinson & James Sares (eds.), What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray, Columbia University Press. pp. 333-355. 2023.
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983MatterIn Robin Truth Goodman (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory, Bloomsbury. pp. 383-398. 2019.Keyword essay for "Matter" providing a genealogical account of the concept, its meaning and function in Western philosophy from a feminist perspective.
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128 Aristotle’s Organism, and OursIn Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 138-157. 2017.
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8The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian CosmosFordham University Press. 2014.Analyzes Aristotle's natural philosophy and metaphysics from a feminist, deconstructive, psychoanalytic perspective, showing that Aristotelian teleology relies on the disparagement of chance and the feminine simultaneously and finding resources therein for contemporary feminist thought.
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495Nature Trouble: Ancient Physis and Queer PerformativityIn Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill & Brooke Holmes (eds.), Antiquities Beyond Humanism, Oxford University Press. pp. 211-238. 2019.
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40A Queer Feeling for Plato: corporeal affects, philosophical hermeneutics, and queer receptionsAngelaki 21 (2): 139-162. 2016.This paper takes Plato's metaphor of poetic transmission as magnetic charge in the Ion as a central trope for thinking through the various relationships between philosophy and literature; between poetry, interpretation, and truth; and between erotic affects and the material, corporeal, queer dimensions of reception. The affective dimensions of the Platonic text in the Ion, Republic, Symposium, and Phaedrus are examined at length, and the explicit accounts of ascent to philosophical truth are sho…Read more
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575Natal Bodies, Mortal Bodies, Sexual BodiesGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 33 (1): 57-84. 2012.
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23Receptacle/ Chōra: Figuring the Errant Feminine in Plato's TimaeusHypatia 21 (4): 124-146. 2001.This essay undertakes a reexamination of the notion of the receptacle/chōra in Plato's Timaeus, asking what its value may be to feminists seeking to understand the topology of the feminine in Western philosophy. As the source of cosmic motion as well as a restless figurality, labile and polyvocal, the receptacle/chōra offers a fecund zone of destabilization that allows for an immanent critique of ancient metaphysics. Engaging with Derridean, Irigarayan, and Kristevan analyses, Bianchi explores w…Read more
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40Receptacle/ Chōra: Figuring the Errant Feminine in Plato's TimaeusHypatia 21 (4): 124-146. 2006.This essay undertakes a reexamination of the notion of the receptacle/chōra in Plato's Timaeus, asking what its value may be to feminists seeking to understand the topology of the feminine in Western philosophy. As the source of cosmic motion as well as a restless figurality, labile and polyvocal, the receptacle/chōra offers a fecund zone of destabilization that allows for an immanent critique of ancient metaphysics. Engaging with Derridean, Irigarayan, and Kristevan analyses, Bianchi explores w…Read more
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825Sexual topologies in the Aristotelian cosmos: revisiting Irigaray’s physics of sexual differenceContinental Philosophy Review 43 (3): 373-389. 2010.Irigaray’s engagement with Aristotelian physics provides a specific diagnosis of women’s ontological and ethical situation under Western metaphysics: Women provide place and containership to men, but have no place of their own, rendering them uncontained and abyssal. She calls for a reconfiguration of this topological imaginary as a precondition for an ethics of sexual difference. This paper returns to Aristotelian cosmological texts to further investigate the topologies of sexual difference sug…Read more
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73Is feminist philosophy philosophy? (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1999.Drawing attention to the vexed relationship between feminist theory and philosophy, Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? demonstrates the spectrum of significant work being done at this contested boundary. The volume offers clear statements by seventeen distinguished scholars as well as a full range of philosophical approaches; it also presents feminist philosophers in conversation both as feminists and as philosophers, making the book accessible to a wide audience. Table of Contents Opening plena…Read more
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672Rewriting Difference: Irigaray and “The Greeks”. Edited by Elena Tzelepis and Athena Athanasiou. Albany: State University of New York press, 2010 (review)Hypatia 27 (2): 455-460. 2012.
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408Material Vicissitudes and Technical WondersEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1): 109-139. 2006.In Aristotle’s physics and biology, matter’s capacity for spontaneous, opaque, chance deviation is named by automaton and marked with a feminine sign, while at the same time these mysterious motions are articulated, rendered knowable and predictable via the figure of ta automata, the automatic puppets. This paper traces how automaton functions in the Aristotelian text as a symptomatic crossing-point, an uncanny and chiasmatic figure in which materiality and logos, phusis, and technē, death and l…Read more
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2186Receptacle/ Chōra: Figuring the Errant Feminine in Plato's TimaeusHypatia 21 (4): 124-146. 2001.This essay undertakes a reexamination of the notion of the receptacle/chōra in Plato's Timaeus, asking what its value may be to feminists seeking to understand the topology of the feminine in Western philosophy. As the source of cosmic motion as well as a restless figurality, labile and polyvocal, the receptacle/chōra offers a fecund zone of destabilization that allows for an immanent critique of ancient metaphysics. Engaging with Derridean, Irigarayan, and Kristevan analyses, Bianchi explores w…Read more
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839The Interruptive Feminine: Aleatory Time and Feminist PoliticsIn Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni & Fanny Soderback (eds.), Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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