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.
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
