Arachnomadology: A Zoētic Framework for Queering Stories of Spider Sex, Life, and Death

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Australian Feminist Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/08164649.2022.2051165

Ally Bisshop

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores the death/life ecologies that flourish along the queered axes of spider reproductive behaviours – from cannibalistic sex to matricidal birth – and how the language and concepts used to describe these behaviours both reflect and distort heteronormative human accounts of gender/sex, life/death and thresholds between. It recalibrates storied accounts of spider sex, life and death through a critical, creative posthumanist approach to nonhuman life as zoē (Braidotti). It presents a queered reading of spider ethologies in which death is not life’s programmatic terminus, but another zoētic expression of desire: the endless reaching for affirmative becomings through (re)productive comminglings of bodies – whether by penetration, modulation, ingestion, or absorption. It argues how a spiderly weaving together of sex and death effects the conditions for the creative survival (inherence) of life itself. This zoētic analysis of spider ethologies proposes a novel figuration: the arachnomad – a sensuous assemblage of spider, web, affects and tangents – as a material model and heuristic for understanding nomadic subjectivities, and for queering the life/death relation.

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蜘蛛学:Zoētic蜘蛛性、生命和死亡的古怪故事框架

本文探讨了沿蜘蛛生殖行为的奇异轴蓬勃发展的死亡/生命生态-从同类相食的性行为到弑母的出生-以及用于描述这些行为的语言和概念如何反映和扭曲了异性恋的人类对性别/性，生/死和两者之间阈值的描述。它通过一种批判性的、创造性的后人类主义方法，重新校准了蜘蛛的性、生和死的故事，把非人类的生命当作zoi (Braidotti)。它呈现了一种对蜘蛛行为学的奇怪解读，其中死亡不是生命的纲目终点，而是另一种zoētic欲望的表达:通过(重新)富有成效的身体混合——无论是通过渗透、调节、摄入还是吸收——无休止地达到肯定的结果。它论证了性与死亡的微妙交织如何影响生命本身创造性生存(固有)的条件。zoētic对蜘蛛行为学的分析提出了一种新的形象:蜘蛛流浪者——蜘蛛、网、情感和切线的感官组合——作为一种物质模型和启发式，用于理解游牧的主体性，以及厘清生与死的关系。

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Australian Feminist Studies WOMENS STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Australian Feminist Studies was launched in the summer of 1985 by the Research Centre for Women"s Studies at the University of Adelaide. During the subsequent two decades it has become a leading journal of feminist studies. As an international, peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies is proud to sustain a clear political commitment to feminist teaching, research and scholarship. The journal publishes articles of the highest calibre from all around the world, that contribute to current developments and issues across a spectrum of feminisms.