2006 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois Online Program

Paper Session: 5541 Performing Hybridity: Encounters with the More-than-human is scheduled on Saturday, 3/11/06, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM in Clark 1 Organizer(s): Traci Warkentin Chair(s): Leesa Fawcett - Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University Abstract(s):   4:00 PM   Author(s): *Firoza Elavia - York University  Abstract Title: Becomings Machinic: art in the age of computer microfractionalization 4:20 PM   Author(s): *Gavan P L Watson - Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada  Abstract Title: The hybrid techno-nature of birding 4:40 PM   Author(s): *Traci Warkentin - York University  Abstract Title: Of Walls and Whales: Spatial and Performative Affordances of Environmental Etiquette in Human-Whale Encounters 5:00 PM   Author(s): *Leesa Fawcett - Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University  Abstract Title: Echoes and Ethical-Political Tracks: An Ecofeminist Tracing of Animal Cultures 5:20 PM   Discussant: Ms. Lauren Baker - York University   Discussant(s): Ms. Lauren Baker - York University Session Description: In this session, we delve into heterogeneous networks of hybrid relations.  Hybridity is a ubiquitous phenomenon, performed through human interactions with other animals, plants, and myriad technologies in contemporary life.  Generative disruptions of hegemonic assumptions of radical separation emerge through these explorations of human/animal/plant/technological relations, opening up ethical and political spaces for negotiating hybrid geographies and engaging with the more-than-human.

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