Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Placing pressure on what it means to "do" feminist philosophy, Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing offers an innovative and critical rethinking of feminist philosophical practice and feminist philosophy as a disciplinary field of thought. The collection raises questions about how disciplines are made, how philosophy gets done, and the collaborative nature of thinking. Seeking to decenter disciplinary norms about content, authority, and belonging, this collection disrupts the status quo of feminist philosophy through its insistence on formal experimentation and creative methods as well as its refusal to take philosophy and its disciplinary attachments at face value. The essays argue for ways of thinking, making, and doing philosophy that are participatory, relational, somatic, affective, sonorous, and sensorial, often looking to experimental and art-based practices such as film, music, poetry, comedy, crocheting, and more. Meant to encourage a collaborative dialogue with readers, several essays conclude with prompts, exercises, and activities, inviting readers to participate in creative philosophical making alongside their own practices.

Lauren Guilmette is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University. Ada S. Jaarsma is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University.

Introduction / Ada S. Jaarsma and Lauren Guilmette 1 Part I. Priming and Instructions Happenings as Makings 1. Hands and the Body of Philosophy: A Visual Chapter / Lauren Guilmette 15 2. (Black) Feminists Constructing the Body of Philosophy: A Performance Score for a Black Feminist Keynote at a Hybrid Feminist Philosophy Conference / Qrescent Mali Mason 22 Priming as Making 3. Access Priming / Margaret Price 31 4. Scribbling In / Eva-Marie Stern and Shelley Wall 38 5. Finding One’s Way: Concept Creation in the Existential WTF / Talia Mae Bettcher with Jay Conway 43 Making Instructions and Instruction Scores 6. Performing in/and the Institution / Natalie Loveless 57 7. How to Make Your Own Trauma Kit / Alyson Patsavas 65 Making at Conferences 8. Autistic Conferencing: Reflections on the Tender Work of Ma(s)king / Ela Przybło 77 9. Philosophical Bedtime Stories / Cressida J. Hayes, Emily R. Douglas, and Kim Q. Hall 83 10. Enacting Entanglements: Performance Scores for Close Reading / Amber Rose Johnson 92 Part II. Making with Texts Making in/With Archives 11. Making Each Other Across Time(s): A Mount Holyoke Story / Perry Zurn 105 12. The Weaving Is the Making / Amanda Bennett 119 13. Prelude to a Suite on John Brown / Ryan J. Johnson 125 Citational Practices 14. On Learning New Words: Dispatches from the Brink, or A Love Letter for Hortense Spillers / Namita Goswami 137 15. Unmaking Dominant “Worlds” / Maria Mejia 147 16. Writing Time / Lonely Thought / Hearing Others / Jill Stauffer 153 Making and Unmaking 17. Red thread of no: On lyric/(k)not/philosophy / Ali Beheler 167 18. Idiorhythmy: Installations for Survival / Lynne Huffer 179 19. Fluxus and Feminist (Un)making / Suze G. Berkhout 186 Part III. Making with Others Curating Affects and Atmospheres 20. Weathering the Comic Storm: On Being Trans and Funny / Amy Marvin 199 21. Feeling Our Way Through: On Making a Dissertation Film / Taylor Rogers 213 22. Curatia in a Prism House of the Soul: The Philosopher as a Thought-Curator / Kyoo Lee 221 Algorighmic Making 23. The Blues Algorithm: Polyrhythmic Structures in Art and Making / Nettrice R. Gaskins 229 24. Mixtaping / Jessie L. Beier 234 25. Craft Knowing and Self-Attendance / Anna E. Mudde 242 Making Kin 26. (Un)making Kinship in the Wake of Family Policing / Katherine S. Davies 249 27. Community Feminism and Collective Poetry in Latin America / Leyla Savloff 254 28. Starfish Collaborations: Trans/feminist Composition Within, Against, and Beyond the Academy / Sofie Vlaad and Steph Elms 261 Microbial Making 29. Sympoiesis: The Ethics and Politics of Making with Microbes / Maya Hey and Anna Sigrithur 271 30. Making Ethics with Microbes / Tiia Sudenkaarne 277 31. Making and Doing Multispecies Care: Feminist and Posthumanist Standpoint for Microbial Signaling / Riina Hannula 283 Making with / Against / Beyond the Academy 32. Black Feminist Legacies of Making, Doing, Sensing Within and Beyond Academia / Kathryn Sophia Belle 289 33. Place-Based Methods, Settler Colonial Classrooms, and Ambivalent Pedagogies / Sarah Kizuk 295 34. Making Philosophy in a Lab and a Lab in Philosophy / Martin Shuster 302 35. Making Democracy Work / NoËlle McAfee 307 Bibliography 313 Contributors 337 Index 349