Object-Oriented Feminism in the Posthuman Environment

The article’s narrative begins by considering the negative attitude of women philosophers, particularly feminist philosophers, towards speculative realism (hereinafter referred to as SR) and object-oriented ontology (hereinafter referred to as OOO). This negation is partly due to anxieties of increased objectification. To dispel these anxieties, the article proposes such forms of objectivity as subject object, object as subject, experimental subject, disidentity, interject, hyposubject and others in their allures. In addition, it is suggested to re-evaluate the concept of thingification and return its own philosophical valuable connotations to it. The article displays that object-oriented feminism (hereinafter referred to as OOF) demonstrates its potential political, erotic and ethical advantages. OOF is considered in connection with agential realism, new feminist materialism, xenofeminism, queer theory and other related conceptions. Together, they best outline the posthuman context. It is displayed that OOF fits into the post-postmodern posthuman speculative turn while retaining the actual features of the postmodern linguistic turn. Similarly, in the context of OOF, the turn from aesthetics to erotic, from production to seduction, etc., is understood. In the article also the inception, development process, collaborations with OOO philosophers and the influence of OOF on them are researched. As a result, the intra-action in-between treating women like objects and treating objects like women happens. Thus object-hood, affirming the democracy of any objects, appears instead of objectivation, which fully corresponds to the posthuman intentions of the OOF and contributes to the formation of the posthuman environment. The article is written on a material of contemporary art and literature and, at the same time, ecophilosophy and bioethics.