Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is also a poet and writer, and is author of Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing (2012) and editor of Writing Academic Texts Differently, Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (2014)
Composed of ashes, pearls, diatoms, longing and audacious thought, this book takes the reader beyond the life/death threshold, to an encounter with the posthuman that is both spectral and inexorably material. Nina Lykke takes posthumanist scholarship to a new place. --Maggie MacLure, Professor Emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Through an interweaving of dimensions such as photography, poetry, storytelling, opera, miraculous co-becomings and philosophical reflections, Vibrant Death invites us to a process of un-learning of death beyond the idea of static nothingness. This book is a radical, sensorial and transformative project --Katja Aglert, independent artist and Professor of Art, Linkoeping University, Sweden Vibrant Death is simply stunning across all registers: affective, methodological, theoretical and poetic. As a magical travelogue , its range and depth of inquiry around the issues of death and mourning are fearless and startlingly innovative. Lykke gives us a relentlessly posthuman, queerfeminist text that beautifully exemplifies an erotics of connection. --Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden