KaosQueer+ Studies Journal Issue:13 Queer Horizon in Post-Humanism
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The 13th issue of KacsQueer+, published with the theme "Queer Horizon in Post-Humanism", invites us to rethink the boundaries of bodies and categories of identity in a wide range of fields from cyborgs to lichens, from trans animals to queer ecologies, shaking the hierarchical distinctions between human, nature and culture.
David Griffiths' Queer Theory for Lichens questions biological individuality and asks new questions about sexuality, the body and sociality. Myra J. Hird's article Trans/ness in Animals critiques attempts to validate human sociality using the behavior of non-human animals. Karen Barad's Queer Performativity of Nature rereads the nature-culture distinction from within her own conceptual baggage and questions how the cut that separates the human from the non-human materializes and what constitutive effects it leads to.
The exhibition section features Cansu Yıldıran's landscapes that trace alternative intimacies and the inspiring intersection of queer and posthumanist thought.
While Gülşah Özgen offers a reading of Evolution based on the intervention of the cyborg figure in essentialist and naturalistic assumptions, Özlem Güçlü sees a common inspiration for life between feminist and LGBTI+ struggles and the struggle for dogs to live on the streets: An inspiration that flourishes in non-reproductive kinship, in unusual intimacies, in the insistence to live/live on the street, in care. The strong voice that says "I am here, my love" is answered by the voice that says "I am on the street, I am with you".