"This Is Not a Photograph of a Fetus": A Feminist Reconfiguration of the Concept of Posthumanism as the Ultrasoundfetusimage. (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Taguchi, Hillevi Lenz
• Other Names: St.Pierre Elizabeth Adams guest-editor.; Taguchi Hillevi Lenz guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 23:Number 9(2017)
• Page Start: 699
• Page End: 710
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: concept as method -- posthumanism -- feminism -- tracing and mapping -- Claire Colebrook -- Gilles Deleuze -- Felix Guattari; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800417732644
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Inspired by Claire Colebrook and Deleuze and Guattari, I aim to make the concept of posthumanism itself my "method." The objective of such an inquiry is a growing self-critique of how posthumanism has, in part, been adopted in educational research. Concept as method puts the concept to play on, in this case, a feminist plane of thinking, to trace-and-map the problems and components from which the concept emerges; that is, it takes on its meanings and practices on this particular plane. Hereby, a reconfigured "face" of the concept of posthumanism takes the shape of the ultrasoundfetusimage .